By Sara Bright The dust has finally settled. On 4 May 2026, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni announced a settlement of their bitter legal dispute…
By Alexander Stone On a Friday evening in mid-November 2025, a statement landed that should have felt like a non-event. Disney and YouTube TV had…
By Sara Bright Sara Bright When Diane Keaton died on 11 October 2025, at the age of 79, the cause was bacterial pneumonia. The family’s…
By Sara Bright On 18 July 1937, Adolf Hitler inaugurated the Haus der Kunst in Munich with a speech declaring “merciless war” on cultural disintegration,…
By Sara Bright In January 1962, a 29-year-old woman from Indiana stood before the cameras of LIFE magazine and issued a declaration that was equal…
By Sara Bright The dead, it turns out, are extremely profitable. In September 2021, Netflix acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company for more than $700…
By Tessa Nolan On 11 June 2026, the Royal Institute of British Architects announced that Rockbund Shanghai – a meticulous, nearly two-decade restoration of eleven…
By Anne Fry When Lila Vogt’s Dangerous Secrets premiered in March 2025, the European Court of Justice had just penalised five member states – Germany…
By Alexander Stone There is a particular kind of cruelty that doesn’t look like cruelty at all. It looks like love. It looks like a…
By Anne Fry In April 1923, a 27-year-old man named Homer Morehouse collapsed on a dance floor and died. He had been dancing for 87…