Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has finally, officially, entered the presidential race. The long-anticipated Trump-DeSantis matchup is about to hit prime time. Which means that so, too, is what Mr. DeSantis himself called in his recent book, “The Courage to Be Free,” the “Ron and Casey traveling road show,” a Camelot-meets-Mar-a-Lago by way of Disney series that is now going […]

In “Taste the Nation,” which debuted its second season this month on Hulu, Padma Lakshmi, the longtime host of the reality-television competition “Top Chef,” visits various immigrant communities throughout the United States, not only eating their food, but interviewing the people who make it. Much has been written about how the show is a radical departure for food television, with […]

It all started with a poster. In 1975, while in graduate school at Tulane University, Bud Brimberg had to come up with a project for a business class. His idea: have an artist in New Orleans create a poster as merchandise for a local music festival. That event, now known as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, has become […]

After reconnecting via long-distance phone calls in the early 1990s, Tommi Vincent and Troy Vincent Sr., who had met a few years earlier in Trenton, N.J., decided it was time to exchange photos of each other through the mail. At the time, Mr. Vincent was a 22-year-old cornerback for the Miami Dolphins. “I sent her a football card because that’s […]

This article contains spoilers for Episode 9 of the final season of “Succession.” We knew it was coming: the funeral service for Logan Roy. After several episodes of planning and maneuvering, the Roy children finally have the chance to ceremonially mourn their father. Of course it wouldn’t be a Roy family gathering without some wheeling and dealing, a surprise eulogy […]

I first became aware of the other Michael Rovner nearly five years ago. I was living in the West Village of Manhattan, at 67 Jane Street. He was at 67 Morton. Occasionally, his mail arrived at my apartment, and I wondered if I was legally allowed to open it. The New York City public school system was trying to reach […]

Sometimes, a customer walks into Name Brand Tattoo on North Main Street and asks Julian Bast to design a tattoo just like the ones on his Instagram account. They use words like “psychedelic,” “abstract” and “swirly.” “You mean, tribal?” Mr. Bast responds. At this point, according to Mr. Bast, some of the customers recoil. No, not those bold, all-black, geometric […]

To many people on the internet, the actress Toni Collette is known simply as “mother.” Ms. Collette has played more than her share of mothers throughout her career: a matriarch with dissociative identity disorder on the TV show “United States of Tara”; a miniatures artist whose family is haunted after the death of her own mother in the film “Hereditary”; […]

Allison Alyssa Flynn had a secret crush on Jeffrey Charles Hood from the moment she met him — a secret from Mr. Hood, that is. The two met in January 2017 in Charleston, S.C., at Trunk Club, a personal styling service no longer in existence. Mr. Hood worked at the Dallas location as a custom clothing trainer, she in Charleston […]

In the opening monologue of “Queen Charlotte,” Netflix’s new “Bridgerton” prequel, the title character imagines being impaled by her whalebone corset. “If I move too much, I might be sliced and stabbed to death by my undergarments,” Charlotte, played by India Amarteifio, tells her brother with a scowl. The series’s characters are constricted by their circumstances and their costuming alike, […]