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What Kelli Giddish Watches (and Reads) With Her Sons
Kelli Giddish’s three sons don’t exactly know what their mom does for a living. They know she plays a cop on TV, sure, but that as Detective Amanda Rollins she spends her days investigating vicious felonies as a member of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit? Not so much. That’s not to say they haven’t been to the set. They have, many times. Giddish’s 11-year-old son, Ludo, even played Amanda’s daughter, Jesse Rollins, when he was first born.
Connecticut Public celebrates literacy, local connection with ‘Generation: Baby-Sitters Club’
Four decades ago this year, America was introduced to The Baby-Sitters Club. A middle-grade series about five enterprising friends who go into business in their small Connecticut town, the Scholastic books have sold about 200 million copies. They’ve also become an important touchstone for generations of girls who read the books and came to identify with their favorite sitter. The series and its impact are the subject of a new season of Connecticut Public’s Generation podcast.
THE QUEEN OF L.A.’S HALLOWEEN
Los Angeles Times | October 23, 2026 Singer, songwriter, actor and author Janelle Mone applies her considerable creativity to costumes and hosting parties YES, THAT IS Janelle Monáe under this creature costume. Her Halloween season itinerary is taking her to Hollywood Forever Cemetery, USC and a secret location. (JASON ARMOND Los Angeles Times) Janelle Monáe is absolutely drenched in fake blood and standing in the middle of a cemetery.
Could a Human Being Really Survive Whalefall ? Original
9 min read IN DANIEL KRAUS’S novel Whalefall, a teenage scuba diver is swallowed alive by a sperm whale in pursuit of a giant squid. While that might seem like a farfetched tale, reminiscent of Jonah being swallowed up by a whale in the bible, it actually happens more than you think. In 2025, a kayaker was sucked up by a whale near Chile and in 2021, a lobster fisherman was swallowed while diving to check his traps near Provincetown, Mass.
Could a Human Being Really Survive Whalefall?
Whalefall Director & Star On Filming a Movie Unlike Any Other: “It Was An Insane Shoot” The new survival-horror-thriller film Whalefall has a lot of viewers caught up right now, even if they haven’t seen the film. The very thought of a …
What Tiffani Thiessen Watches (and Plays) With Her Kids
When Tiffani Thiessen was just 14 years old, she won Teen’sGreat Model Search, earning herself a spot on the magazine’s cover. A year later, after CoverGirl named her its model of the year, she landed a role on Saved by the Bell, where she cemented her place in American pop culture as cheerleader and fought-over love interest Kelly Kapowski.
How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Karina Longworth
The 'You Must Remember This' host would hike Laurel Canyon, catch a 35mm film screening and linger over Italian food. loves Los Angeles for all its quirks and charms. Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, the film critic, author and journalist has made a career out of celebrating her city.
Janelle Monáe wants to be L.A.'s reigning Halloween queen
It took about four hours for Janelle Monáe to get into this costume inspired by a mysterious creature who she says guided her this year.(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Janelle Monáe is absolutely drenched in fake blood and standing in the middle of a cemetery. Previously prom-perfect in a slinky dress, glossy wig and sparkling tiara for a Cinespia screening of the 1976 horror classic “Carrie,” Monáe’s dousing was of her own volition.
What Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins Watch (and Listen to) With Their Daughter
For WWE power couple Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins (real names Rebecca Quin and Colby Lopez), having a kid meant navigating the pair’s already precarious work-life balance. Before their daughter Roux was born in 2020, the couple were on the road something like 300 days a year, traveling to wrestling events all around the world almost every single night. Fortunately, kids are adaptable, and Roux started hitting the road with her parents when she was just 8 months old.
‘Sesame Street,’ ‘Nature’ go wild for new ‘Great Elephant Adventure’
Abby and Elmo may have the occasional wild moment on Sesame Street, but come Oct. 14, they’ll be buddying up to some real animals for a new episode of Nature. Sesame Street and the Great Elephant Adventure is the product of a years-long collaboration between the two PBS mainstays. It finds Elmo, Abby and Nina (Suki Lopez) journeying to Kenya’s Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, where they’ve arranged to meet an elephant they adopted online.
What Tom and Roman Morello Watch (and Listen to) Together
It took the COVID lockdown to get Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave’s Tom Morello to teach his son how to play guitar. Even then, after working through “Stairway to Heaven” together three or four notes at a time, Roman Morello says he wasn’t all that aware of what his dad did for a living. That changed in 2022, when Morello Sr. took his family on the road with him as he toured with a reunited Rage Against the Machine.
What Mark Duplass Watches (and Plays) With His Daughters
When Mark Duplass first had his kids, he looked forward to the day when he could start to show them his favorite movies. “My vision was that we were going to do this thing on Sunday nights where everybody gets to pick a movie and we’d all sit down and watch,” he says. “I thought, ‘I’m going to keep this sacred and it’s going to be like our church. I can make them watch Tarkovsky,’ but that definitely didn’t happen. You come to realize as a parent that you’re just scrambling, trying to get by.
The 11 Best Things to Do in Los Angeles (and Top Things to Avoid)
An insider’s guide to Hollywood and beyond. One of the most visible and talked-about cities in the world, Los Angeles is as much a lifestyle brand as it is a location. Synonymous with celebrity, glamor, and sunshine, L.A. is a dream tourist destination for much of the world’s population. It’s got movie stars and beaches, theme parks and museums, sports superstars and beautiful scenery.
Not Too Scary: The Top 10 Family Halloween Movies
(Screenshot from YouTube) Everyone loves Halloween, but sometimes the thrills and chills of the late October holiday can be a bit too much for the littlest among us.
‘Line of Fire’ Review: Palatable NBC Procedural Is Just Fine
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‘Line of Fire’ Review: Palatable NBC Procedural Is Just Fine Original
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… There’s an old saying that goes, “Sex is kinda like pizza. Even when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.” While the “sex” part of that is pretty debatable — with lackluster relations certainly having the potential to be downright awful — the pizza part still rings true. Even the worst pizza, from a deli freezer or from under the hot, sticky heat lamp of a 7-11, is still pretty solid. The same can be said for TV procedurals.
Get Yer Thrills: The Top 10 Thriller Movies of All Time
When spooky season rolls around, many people naturally turn to horror movies, eager to immerse themselves in terrifying, blood-curdling fright as Halloween approaches. But if you’re squeamish, scared, or just turned off by guts and gore, there are still ways to dive into creepy, seasonally appropriate cinema without making you eternally afraid of all guys named Jason or Freddy. With thrillers, you can get all the spine-chilling action of a horror movie without all of the chainsaws.
What Ken Jennings Watches (and Listens to) With His Kids
Believe it or not, Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings was a bit of a nerd when he was younger. “As a trivia kid,” he says, “you kind of become aware that it’s not a hit with girls to know Captain Kirk’s middle name.” But when Jennings’s father took a job in Seoul and Ken started attending an international school, his classmates hipped him to a certain show airing in the afternoons on the Armed Forces Television Network.
What Tan France Watches (and Listens to) With His Kids
Tan France loves a good googly eye, and so do his kids. “Every birthday,” he says, “the boys ask, ‘Can we get googly eyes?’ They’re obsessed.” So obsessed, in fact, that France uses the little wobblers to manipulate his kids come meal time. “When my son is being a pain in the butt and won’t eat,” France says, “I’ll put googly eyes on his plate and it’ll turn the whole thing into a game, like he’ll think he’s eating some other character’s dinner.
How Kid-Friendly Is Coyote vs. Acme ?
When Warner Bros. shelved Coyote vs. Acmeback in late 2023, audiences were left wondering why. Reports soon emerged claiming that the studio, newly merged with Discovery, had done it as a tax write-off. But why Coyote vs. Acme and not any of the other less-fun-sounding movies it also had in the can, like the Kevin Costner vanity project Horizon: An American Saga — Part 1 or the Clint Eastwood–directed Juror No. 2?
Dolly Parton’s best duets
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Dolly Parton’s Best Duets
Dolly Parton grew up singing with other people — her family, her friends and neighbors at church, and those she met later when she started coming up in Nashville.
Coyote Vs Acme - Vulture
Displaying all articles tagged: vulture lists 21 mins ago Watch them after Coyote vs. Acme, because it’s only the latest film to playfully pair the mediums. review roundup Yesterday at 9:07 p.m. The film had a shocking 101 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. immature audiences Yesterday at 9:00 a.m. It’s more of a legal thriller than you’d expect of a cartoon. chat room Aug. 25, 2026 “That probably doesn’t happen in a Space Jam,” says Eric Bauza, who voices most of the new film’s Looney Tunes.
What Jake Lacy Watches (and Reads) With His Sons
Jake Lacy has a couple of sporty kids. His two boys — who are 6 and 8 — spent their summer days hiking, swimming, and going to sailing camps and their nights watching (and talking) Boston Red Sox baseball. Lacy acknowledges that he’s lucky to have even landed his sons in those camps, given the mad scramble parents experience every late winter or early spring to register their kids months ahead of time. “Five months out, they’re like, ‘Do you want to sign up for the last week of August?’” he says.
What Eli Roth Watches (and Reads) With His Daughter
Eli Roth might be a busy guy—his twisted new horror flick, Ice Cream Man, hit theaters last week hot on the heels of a sufficiently creepy PR push that found Roth popping up all over Comic-Con—but the director has still been able to carve out copious amounts of time to hang with his 18-month-old daughter, Donatella. “One of the joys of directing movies now is that I can schedule my time so that I can work from home and edit remotely,” he says.
What Megan Hilty Watches (and Listens to) With Her Kids
It should come as no surprise that Megan Hilty’s 11-year-old daughter, Viola, takes musical theater pretty darn seriously. “She got really upset yesterday because she was on the bus home from day camp and her Discman ran out of batteries as she was in the middle of listening to West Side Story,” says Hilty, a Broadway veteran who has starred in shows like Wicked, 9 to 5, and the recent adaptation of Death Becomes Her.
How House of the Dragon Builds Armor Fit for the Mightiest Targaryens and Hightowers
RIGHT FROM THE moment it started airing, HBO’s Game of Thrones never shied away from spectacle. In its eight-season run, the show had a cast of what seemed like thousands, went everywhere on-screen from ice-covered mountains to arid deserts, and aired battle scenes so gory that they inspired eye-popping online reaction. (In addition to actual on-screen eye-popping.
The Most Popular Types Of Apples, Explained
Picking out a good apple can be a surprisingly difficult task. What's the difference between a Fuji and a Gala? If there are new types of apples, how do you know if they're any good? Is your favorite apple for snacking also going to taste good baked? And don't even get us started on the perils of going apple picking and entering into a whole new world of apple names and questions.
What the Bella Twins Watch (and Read) With Their Kids
It’s pretty funny that Nikki and Brie Bella had their boys, Matteo and Buddy, just hours apart, in hospital rooms right next to each other. The twins-turned-WWE stars have always been close—born 16 minutes apart and raised on a farm outside Scottsdale, Arizona—but even their inseparable bond doesn’t fully explain that kind of timing. “We didn’t plan for it, but we call the boys our spiritual twins because they’re like brothers,” Nikki says.
House of the Dragon Wants Those Fire-Breathers to Break Your Heart Original
10 min read The following story contains some spoilers for House of the Dragon season 3. HOUSE OF THE Dragon has never been just a clever name. The Game of Thrones prequel has been chock-full of the flying fictional reptiles, all zipping around Westeros in service of the Targaryen clan. A whopping 22 fire-breathing beasties have graced the show over the past two seasons and change, with names like Balerion the Black Dread, Vhagar, Sheepstealer, Quicksilver, and Dreamfyre.
House of the Dragon Wants Those Fire-Breathing Dragons to Feel Real—and Sometimes Break Your Heart Original
10 min read The following story contains some spoilers for House of the Dragon season 3. HOUSE OF THE Dragon has never been just a clever name. The Game of Thrones prequel has been chock-full of the flying fictional reptiles, all zipping around Westeros in service of the Targaryen clan. A whopping 22 fire-breathing beasties have graced the show over the past two seasons and change, with names like Balerion the Black Dread, Vhagar, Sheepstealer, Quicksilver, and Dreamfyre.
How to have the best Sunday in LA., according to Kylie Cantrall
Kylie Cantrall loves having a day off in the Valley. Born and raised in the L.A. area, Cantrall has been working in entertainment since launching a YouTube channel at 7 years old. At 21, she's been rising through Hollywood's ranks, doing everything from animated voices to toplining live-action series, all while garnering millions of social media followers.
What W. Kamau Bell Watches (and Reads) With His Daughters
Growing up as an only child with a single mom, W. Kamau Bell’s childhood was fairly serene compared to that of his three daughters. He spent his summers reading books, eating cereal, and watching a little TV. By contrast, he says, his daughters have become used to life in a noisy, busy house, where one parent or another is always trying to dash off to get some kid to some activity.
How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Mary Steenburgen Original
Mary Steenburgen moved to California to work with Jack Nicholson. It was 1977, and Steenburgen — an Arkansas native — had been waiting tables in New York at night while studying acting with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse during the day.
What David Wain Watches (and Plays) With His Sons
When David Wain was just 18 years old and, he says, “not super-showered,” he packed up and moved from his parents’ house in greater Cleveland to Manhattan, where he attended NYU film school. He roomed with an old friend, the band Shudder to Think’s Craig Wedren. While on campus, he met and started working with the members of what would become the State, a sketch-comedy group that would go on to create a short-lived yet oft-quoted series for MTV about five years later.
What June Diane Raphael Watches (and Reads) With Her Sons
June Diane Raphael is good at being a mom. It’s true onscreen — where she’s Eva, mother of a teenage Elle Woods, in Prime Video’s new Legally Blonde prequel Elle — and off, where she’s bringing up two tweenage boys (“until they tell me otherwise”) alongside husband Paul Scheer. Part of what makes Raphael such a good onscreen mom, she says, is that she’s pulling from her experience with her own mother, who died unexpectedly 19 years ago.
How to have the best Sunday in LA., according to Ken Marino
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How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Ken Marino
Marah Eakin Fri, 3 July 2026 at 10:00 am UTC 8 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ken Marino loves living in L.A. Living here has certainly been good for his acting career. Though he broke into the business as a member of NYC-turned-MTV sketch comedy group the State in 1994, he moved to L.A. in the fall of 1997 when he landed a role in the second season of “Men Behaving Badly,” an NBC sitcom. Marino shot just 13 episodes before the show was canceled.
How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Ken Marino
Ken Marino loves living in L.A. Living here has certainly been good for his acting career. Though he broke into the business as a member of NYC-turned-MTV sketch comedy group the State in 1994, he moved to L.A. in the fall of 1997 when he landed a role in the second season of "Men Behaving Badly," an NBC sitcom. Marino shot just 13 episodes before the show was canceled.
‘Elle’ Review: Amazon’s Dull ‘Legally Blonde’ Prequel Series Is Awkward and Forced
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Is the American dream a farce? A new documentary from David McCourt aims to find out
What, exactly, is “the American dream”? When historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase in 1931, he was aiming to sum up a sentiment he felt among his countrymen.
‘Elle’ Review: Amazon’s Dull ‘Legally Blonde’ Prequel Series Is Awkward and Forced Original
When “Legally Blonde” came out in 2001, it blew up the box office. Grossing about six times its $18 million budget and spawning both a sequel (“Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, & Blonde”) and a Broadway musical, not to mention innumerable Elle Woods Halloween costumes, “Legally Blonde” has become a certified cultural touchstone. It was also the movie that — for all intents and purposes — launched Reese Witherspoon’s career.
What Hershii LiqCour-Jeté Watches (and Listens to) With Her Kids
When Hershii LiqCour-Jeté’s partner found out his niece and nephew had entered the foster system in Boston, he came to the RuPaul’s Drag Race and Drag Race All-Stars contestant with one big question: “How would you feel about being a dad?” “I was like, ‘Being a what?,’ LiqCour-Jeté says. “But then he gave me the whole rundown because he had a brother that got lost in the foster system, like he doesn’t know where his brother is, and he didn’t want his niece and nephew to go through the same thing.
After the Eaton fire, 'In the Gardens of Eaton' finds unexpected beauty in loss
Night is falling in Altadena as bats circle, peacocks wail and photographer Kevin Cooley tries to capture what’s left of a tree. Using strobes and a long exposure time to allow the maximum amount of available light to hit his lens, Cooley snags about 50 shots of the 20-foot-tall tree, which stands vigil over a street where nearly all the homes burned.
New ‘Marketplace’ podcast aims to bring financial advice to younger, diverse audience
Everyone uses and cares about money, yet it seems like most financial journalism, from CNBC shows to the Wall Street Journal, has traditionally been aimed at and consumed by a limited class of citizens: already wealthy, mostly middle- to retirement-aged white men. A new weekly video podcast from American Public Media and Marketplace seeks to change that by demystifying wealth building and personal finance for audiences traditionally excluded from the genre.
What Jet Li Watches (and Reads) With His Daughters
Jet Li readily admits he hasn’t always been the most present dad. “When I was 24, I had my first marriage,” he says. “We had two daughters, Si and Taimi, and I played with them, but most of the time I went to go make movies.
‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ seeks new audiences with YouTube expansion
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is finally making its official foray into the world of YouTube. With the launch of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’sYouTube channel June 4, Fred Rogers Productions hopes to both summon nostalgia and woo younger generations who may not have already fallen in love with Rogers and his Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
‘Every Year After’ Review: Prime Video Romance Fans Deserve Better Original
In a way, you can’t blame Prime Video for wanting to make “Every Year After.” The book it’s based on — Carley Fortune’s “Every Summer After” — was a smash in the world of beach-read romances, selling more than a million copies to readers and BookTok fanatics who wished they could be whisked away for a breezy Canadian summer of love.
What Kurt Vile Watches (and Listens to) With His Daughters
Kurt Vile’s kids are capital-C cool, and it’s easy to see why. With their laid-back, mop-haired rocker dad and poetry professor turned ayurvedic healer mom, 16-year-old Awilda and 13-year-old Delphine have surely always known the importance of staying true to oneself. Vile certainly has. The third of ten kids, Vile grew up a self-described weirdo in Philadelphia.
Kids’ vintage clothing sales are experiencing a remarkable boom at in-person markets and online, where prices for clothes for little ones have shot up on websites including Depop and Poshmark. Millennial parents are looking to outfit their kids in the clothes and TV and film characters they loved (or coveted) when they were kids. The result? There’s a new generation of kiddos hitting the playground looking incredibly cool.
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