Content Type: Personal Profile

December 26, 2024

Charli XCX’s Year of the ‘Brat’

This year, the name of the brash, formerly underground pop star Charli XCX and her album “Brat” showed up a lot of places I never in […]
December 23, 2024

Teddy Blanks, the Typography Maestro Getting Calls From Greta Gerwig and Robert Eggers

Teddy Blanks, the designer behind the memorable movie titles for films like “Nosferatu” and “Barbie,” has quietly become Hollywood’s go-to guy. Teddy Blanks, a neatly mustached […]
December 19, 2024

Could Dean Withers Be One of the Democrats’ TikTok Bro Whisperers?

Dean Withers argues online with right-wing stars like Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro. His goal? To reach their young, male followers. In a YouTube video that […]
December 13, 2024

How the Wackiest, Most ‘Annoying’ Christmas Song Became a Hit

On a cold and snowy night in November 1978, the members of Randy Brooks’s country band, Young Country, found themselves stranded after a gig at the […]
December 5, 2024

A Poet Becomes a Jewelry Maker. But She Still is a Poet.

Teresa Kiplinger’s work features a mix of highly detailed images and fragments of her own poems. Teresa Kiplinger’s recent Instagram post, titled “How It Started,” showed […]
November 10, 2024

Emma Chamberlain on YouTube Fame and a New Warby Parker Line

On a recent Friday afternoon, Emma Chamberlain passed a tow yard during a photo shoot in Beverly Hills. She walked by a row of dented sedans […]
October 30, 2024

Frank Andrews Is Still New York’s Psychic to the Stars at 83

Frank Andrews wants people to know something about being a psychic: It is exhausting. Picking up random energy, being visited by unexpected phantasmas, listening to the […]
October 9, 2024

Who Is Yolanda Hill? The Wife of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina Has Had Scandals of Her Own

North Carolina’s second lady helped make her husband’s political foray possible. But her ventures — a day care and a nonprofit — also caused problems. The […]
October 7, 2024

Nutter Butter, Are You Good? An Investigation.

The cookie sandwich brand’s videos — funny, disturbing, fever-dreamlike — rack up tens of millions of views. The secret is lots of lore without much sense, […]
September 24, 2024

Arséma Thomas, Who Stars in “She Taught Love,” Wears Her Late Father’s Watch

Arséma Thomas joked that the reason she hadn’t fixed her late father’s watch is because she feared what could be inside of it. (She knew from […]