This is an edition of the newsletter Pulling Weeds With Chris Black, in which the columnist weighs in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. I am on record as an awards-show lover. I love the awful red-carpet interviews with brain-dead correspondents, the forced collaborative performances, […]
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On the subject of conflict, one of my favorite scenes in the show is that dinner argument where it’s revealed that Tag had another affair with Will’s old tutor. Can you give a sense of what it was like to shoot that? Susanne [Bier] really liked improv. We’d learn the thing as scripted, and then
These soft skills have never been more critical in light of the National Association of Realtors’ commission suit settlement and subsequent rule changes, OJO Labs CEO Chris Heller writes. September means Back to Basics here at Inman. As real estate navigates the post-settlement era with new commission rules, real estate professionals from across the country
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Police and protesters faced off on May 31, 2024, at UC Santa Cruz. Credit: Photo by Kevin Painchaud / Lookout Santa Cruz Civil rights groups representing two students and one professor are suing the University of California Santa Cruz, alleging that the campus unlawfully banned students and faculty from campus last spring after they participated
A teach-in on Palestine at Cal State Long Beach on May 2, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of Ben Huff California State University, Long Beach is facing accusations that a policy limiting amplified sound on campus violates free speech rights and has been selectively enforced to single out faculty members who criticized the university. The American Civil
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CREDIT: Flickr/Alberto-G Ten Los Angeles Unified School District community schools will be given an opportunity to pilot new approaches to assessments in the 2025-26 academic year. And once the schools adopt alternative assessments, they won’t have to participate in standardized tests, other than those mandated by state and federal governments, the district school board decided
When many of us learned to shave, there was comfort in knowing that if one blade missed a hair, the next three (or six) would mow it down for the closest shave possible. So, why then, with the advent of multi-blade razors, do so many standout single-blade razors persist in the marketplace? Because the best
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The best aviator sunglasses for men have always been cool, but I first became enamored with them as a kid, watching reruns of CHiPs before school. The plot lines were largely forgettable. The reflective, teardrop-shaped frames those fictional highway patrol officers swore by? Not so much. Once I moved on from spending my mornings with
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That something is increasingly swapping the runway for the restaurant. On Sunday afternoon, American menswear titan Todd Snyder held a salon-style presentation at Le Rock, where the models brushed so close to the guests that they could practically touch their handsome linen knits and pleasantly oversized blazers. Which was, Snyder said, exactly the point: “Especially
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He was a highly-touted NFL quarterback prospect, yet much of the conversation around Will Levis entering last year’s NFL Draft focused on the Connecticut native’s playful choice to add mayo to his coffee—there was even a weird report of being “deathly” fearful of milk. Despite the eccentric cream replacement and reports of dairy aversion, the
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