By Tanner Garrity For years now, when describing the Baltimore Orioles, sportswriters have turned to a usual merry-go-round of epithets: “lowly,” “sorry,” “woeful,” etc. These 2022 Orioles are none of the above. They are still the “last place Orioles” …
Lou Reed’s Archive Is Now Open in New York City
By Tobias Carroll Over the course of his decades-long career, Lou Reed balanced a penchant for challenging norms with a command of pop songwriting. That resulted in one of the most acclaimed bodies of work in the 20th century, encompassing both Reed’s …
The Nordstrom Aniversary Sale Is Chock-Full of Fire Sneakers
By Paolo Sandoval Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale is one of the biggest sales known to man — the sartorial equivalent of an extinction-level event — especially when it comes to absolute fire sneakers. Yes, that’s right: Nordstrom’s got the sneaker sauce, …
The Best Activewear Deals From Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale
By Logan Mahan From now till July 31, you can shop some amazing deals from top brands during Nordstrom’s biggest shopping event of the year. From style products to home goods, and everything in between, the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale features markdowns…
Aruba’s Oldest Hotel Is Still a Superlative Caribbean Getaway
By Diane Rommel Here’s the thing: I love Aruba. When I was a kid, normal New Jersey grandparents went on vacation in Tampa or Ocean City (NJ or DE, a distinction without much of a difference, beyond the fact that the former is dry and the latter is abs…
Penn Badgley Knows His “You” Masturbation Scenes Are Creepy
By Kayla Kibbe On-screen masturbation has come a long way since James Gandolfini reluctantly filmed an (ultimately unaired) jerk-off scene for The Sopranos. In TV’s current age of full-frontal male nudity and on-screen ass-eating, it’s not uncommon to …
Tom Brady: Media “Mischaracterized” Close Relationship With Donald Trump
By Evan Bleier In a new interview with Variety, soon-to-be-45-year-old Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady touched on a number of typically off-limits topics, including his relationship with former President Donald Trump. Or, if you take Brady a…
It Turns Out Armie Hammer Really Is Selling Timeshares in the Caymans
By Bonnie Stiernberg Last week, rumors circulated online that actor Armie Hammer — now a Hollywood pariah after multiple women accused him of rape and physical abuse, and screenshots of texts he wrote expressing cannibalistic fantasies surfaced — is cu…
British Open May Ban LIV Golfers as Defector Ian Poulter Booed at St. Andrews
By Evan Bleier Noticeably booed for his defection to the LIV Golf Series at the first tee as he began his first round at the Open Championship, Englishman Ian Poulter badly shanked his opening shot at the Old Course at St. Andrews. To his credit, Poult…
Airbnb Vs. Vrbo: What’s the Difference?
By Lindsay Rogers In 2007, two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and Airbnb was born. The company is now worth north of $110 billion, and at the time of this writing, there are six million live listings worldwide, four million re…