Friday, April 10, 2026
Jools Holland is probably best known as the host of the long-running BBC music series Later …, which has been showcasing live performances since 1991. He’s also a bandleader and pianist, and was a founding… Read More
Friday, April 10, 2026
“If you want to avoid a trip to the ER, I’d say get your advice from real doctors instead of a 25-year-old woman on TikTok with three first names.” — Gina Ippolito This will be… Read More
Thursday, April 9, 2026
“I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.”— Arthur Hays Sulzberger (attributing it to others) Sulzberger was publisher of the New York Times during some consequential years (1935… Read More
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Over the last decade, words like “inclusion” have become weaponized. It ought to mean making sure that people from various backgrounds — reflecting diversity, which has also become divisive — feel comfortable and welcome in… Read More
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
“When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.”— Florence Griffith Joyner The American sprinter still known to… Read More
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
“It was a pudding, you know? It really was a pudding. It was a pudding of new ideas, and we were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were… Read More
Monday, April 6, 2026
“I can’t even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it’s the truth. I love my work but… Read More
Sunday, April 5, 2026
“Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says that she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.”— Barbara Walters The legendary host, interviewer and anchor Barbara Walters made this comment… Read More
Saturday, April 4, 2026
It happens all the time: the moment when someone realizes they don’t know what they’re talking about — and they know everyone else is realizing it, too. It could be in a presentation in a… Read More
Saturday, April 4, 2026
“It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest ‘correct’ theory declares the old to be false and erases it.”— Wassily Kandinsky A lawyer before he made the later-in-life decision… Read More
Friday, April 3, 2026
Imagine earning supper money from playing a game that you’d play anyway … tempting, no? That in a nutshell is the pitch from companies like Freecash, which work in an area of the online economy… Read More
Thursday, April 2, 2026
“I was going to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I have no character.”— Charles Barkley Basketball superstar Charles Barkley has always been mindful of publicity — and he’s also… Read More
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
“The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people’s knowledge.”— Fred Vargas The French archaeologist Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau is better known to the world as the crime writer Fred Vargas. My father loved her novels and… Read More
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
“Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure… Read More
Monday, March 30, 2026
There’s been a mature wave of television shows that grapple deeply with mental health and its complexities (I’m thinking of The Bear and even supposedly light fare like Fleabag), but nothing is like HBO’s The… Read More