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☆ Opinion: In Trump Trial, Stormy Daniels testimony was revealing — about America
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Opinion Danielle Campoamor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

For two days in Manhattan, Stephanie Gregory Clifford — better known as Stormy Daniels — detailed her connection to former President Donald Trump and alleged sexual encounter with him in 2006. But it matters that the media decided to erroneously describe a grown woman openly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with a grown man as obscene. The words used to characterize Daniels’ testimony evoke a feeling of inherent wrongness or dirtiness — and not on the part of the accused but of the woman who dared to speak up. While the Manhattan criminal case is not directly tied to Trump’s alleged encounter with Daniels, the details of their brief alleged tryst are crucial to the prosecution’s case. In a 2018 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, she described her alleged sexual encounter with Trump as consensual.

Persons: Danielle Campoamor, Stephanie Gregory Clifford —, Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump, Danielle Campoamor Ashley Batz, Daniels, “, tawdry, Trump’s, Trump, Jean Carroll, —, Eric, ”, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, I’ve Organizations: NBC, CNN, Republican, Trump, Twitter, Facebook Locations: Manhattan, Nevada, ”

☆ Opinion: Women’s History Month is a time to hear this call for an AP course in women’s history
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Opinion Elena Sheppard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Elena Sheppard Courtesy Elena SheppardThis gap in my education — and in many American students’ educations — is one with serious repercussions. To combat that, two high school history teachers have started a national campaign to incorporate more women’s history into high school classrooms via Advanced Placement (AP) classes. Their argument, as laid out on their website, is that women’s history is not sufficiently taught. In AP US History, women’s suffrage, for example, is taught as just one of many movements encapsulated in the Progressive Era. It’s a safe assumption that a women’s studies AP course would face similar controversy and scrutiny, particularly with the inclusion of women’s reproductive rights.

Persons: Elena Sheppard, ”, I’d, Betsy Ross, Dorothea Dix, Lucy Delaney, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, —, Kristen Kelly, Serene Williams, Kelly, Williams, Roe, Wade, Ron DeSantis, Mississippi — Organizations: Cuban, Martin’s Press, CNN, College Board —, College Board, AP, Government, Politics, AP African American Studies, Florida Gov Locations: Cuban Diaspora, St, United States, Florida, Arkansas, Virginia, North Dakota, Mississippi

☆ She Wrote the Brooklyn Mom Playbook. Now She’s Starting Fresh.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Chavie Lieber | Photography Eric Chakeen For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Joanna Goddard is starting over. She wants you to know you can too. The lifestyle blogger built a successful brand around her idyllic Brooklyn life with Cup of Jo, the site she launched in 2007. Her posts chronicled falling in love, building a family and navigating everyday challenges. And her readers—most of them women—were on that journey with her.

Persons: Joanna Goddard, Jo, — Locations: Brooklyn

☆ Angelina Jolie on Being a Punk and Styling Advice From Her Kids
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

"The One" With WSJ. MagazineIn this deeply personal conversation series, WSJ. Magazine’s cover stars talk about “the one” secret to their success—the one mentor they lean on in a crisis, the one habit they wish they could break, the one call that changed their lives changed forever. From actor Nicole Kidman to The Daily Show host Trevor Noah to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, iconic cultural figures open up to WSJ.

Persons: Nicole Kidman, Trevor Noah, Bill Gates Organizations: Daily, Microsoft

ANGELINA JOLIE has found her voice. But first, she says, she lost it. It was during hours of training to portray the opera singer Maria Callas in her turbulent final days, for an upcoming movie in which Jolie’s voice will be blended with the diva’s famously dramatic renditions of operatic arias.

Persons: ANGELINA JOLIE, Maria Callas

☆ David Mamet Looks Back on a Long, Contentious Career
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | Photography Pia Riverola For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

David Mamet’s new book, ‘Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood,’ is out Dec. 5. Photo: Pia Riverola for WSJ. MagazineThe cover of David Mamet’s memoir features a drawing of a pig at a typewriter. It hints at the irreverent, even incendiary, tone of the pages that follow in his new book, “Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood,” which is out Dec. 5. Mamet, who also drew the cartoons, uses the book to sound off about the entertainment industry.

Persons: David Mamet’s, ’, Pia Riverola, Mamet Locations: Hollywood

☆ 14 Dream Vacation Looks That Will Inspire Your Next Packing List
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Photography Campbell Addy For Wsj. Magazine | Styling Jessica Willis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

14 Dream Vacation Looks That Will Inspire Your Next Packing ListGhanaian-British photographer Campbell Addy captures chic and easy pieces to match the beauty of Ghana’s capital, Accra, and its striking surroundings

Persons: Campbell Addy Organizations: Ghanaian Locations: British, Accra

☆ His Father Built a Design Empire. Now It’s His Turn.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Sarah Medford | Photography Salva López For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BEFORE THE BELGIAN design impresario Axel Vervoordt could face down the matter of his succession, one question kept nagging at him: Who would come live in the castle? A short drive from Antwerp, the early-12th-century fortress has been Vervoordt’s home since 1984, when he and his wife, May, bought it from 42 descendants of a family that had owned it since 1728. As it evolved from a proving ground for his esoteric tastes into a hub for experimentation, Kasteel van ’s-Gravenwezel became an essential part of his global enterprise—a kind of turreted display case for the ancient objects and modern art that Vervoordt sells to private clients around the world.

Persons: Axel Vervoordt, Kasteel van Locations: BELGIAN, Antwerp

☆ Ann Patchett Shares Her Reading Resolutions for 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Lane Florsheim | Photography Whitten Sabbatini For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ANN PATCHETT, the author of nine novels, four nonfiction books and two children’s books, recently officiated a wedding in Nashville, where she lives. Preparing brought her back to her 20s, when she wrote so frequently for the magazine Bridal Guide that some issues were populated entirely by her articles, bylined under different names. For one assignment, Patchett called every happily married person she knew to ask for one pro tip on maintaining a successful union. The advice she got from her stepmother has stayed with her ever since.

Persons: Patchett Locations: Nashville

Most funny people will say that where there’s laughter, there’s usually pain. Louis-Dreyfus knows the reverse is also true. Even while she explores new emotional depths in her work, she can’t help but find the funny. It turns out, you can take the girl out of the comedy, but you can’t take the comedy out of the girl.

Persons: Louis, Dreyfus

WHEN TRAVIS KELCE was a young man, his college football coach pulled him aside one day and told him the secret of life: Everybody you meet in this world is either a fountain or a drain. “I need fountains,” the coach growled at Kelce. “I don’t need f—ing drains. Travis, you’re f—ing draaaining me!”

Persons: TRAVIS KELCE, growled Locations: Kelce, Travis

☆ 12 Couture Looks That Are Out of This World
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Photography Markn For Wsj. Magazine | Styling Alexandra Carl | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Judy Organizations: Gabbana, Dolce Locations: Paris

JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS is laughing about the time she had to eat Death. Sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, waiting for her poached-eggs-no-home-fries, she’s talking about her role as a fiercely protective mother in her new movie, Tuesday, a visual effects–filled drama in which Death takes the form of a mystical parrot. At one point in the mother’s quest to protect her terminally ill daughter from the bird, she stuffs its entire body into her mouth. Louis-Dreyfus actually chewed black cotton candy to create the moment.

Persons: JULIA LOUIS, DREYFUS, Louis, Dreyfus Locations: Manhattan

☆ Inside WSJ. Magazine’s 2023 Innovator Awards
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Lane Florsheim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Brand Innovator Kylie Jenner said the award was the first she’d won. “I’ve always loved beauty and fashion,” she said, “and to be recognized for the success of the brands I’ve built and my new Kye, which launched today, is so special.” Presenting her award, designer Haider Ackermann said of dressing Jenner for the Met Gala: “Our collaboration allowed us to think together, to work together, to dream together.”Getty Images for WSJ. Magazine Innovators Awards

Persons: Kylie Jenner, she’d, “ I’ve, ”, Haider Ackermann, Jenner

WHEN I MAKE a good song, literally it’s better than sex,” SZA says as she peels off her fake eyelashes. The Grammy-winning musician lives in Los Angeles, but tonight she’s in New York, curled up in her hotel room at the Soho Grand between dates on her arena tour. A manicurist soaks off her nail extensions with acetone. SZA apologizes as she pulls her other hand away, reaching for the lighter next to her. “I’m scared I’m going to light my nails on fire because of the acetone,” she says.

Persons: ” SZA, SZA, “ I’m Organizations: Soho Locations: Los Angeles, New York

☆ Kylie Jenner set to launch ‘accessible’ new clothing line
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Moving beyond cosmetics, skincare and even a Bratz doll line, the youngest Kardashian-Jenner sibling, Kylie Jenner, is expanding her business portfolio with a new clothing line, named Khy, launching November 1. “The whole line is really inspired by my personal wardrobe, and the different moods that I’m in,” Jenner told WSJ. (The biker glam pieces that make up its first collection are in partnership with the Berlin-based fashion brand Namilia.) Courtesy Khy“Kylie’s obviously very aware of what she likes,” Haider Ackermann, the fashion designer behind Jenner’s 2023 Met Gala gown, told WSJ. She’s always been seduced by it.”“Creatively I have such a strong vision of what I want to look like and what I want to do and what I want to wear,” Jenner told WSJ.

Persons: Kardashian, Jenner, Kylie Jenner, it’s, Kendall, ”, Kim, Cass Bird, Khy, ” Jenner, Martin Scorcese, Ed Ruscha, Jerry Lorenzo, Rory Satran, Kylie —, Kris Jenner, Jens, Emma Grede —, Kim Kardashian’s Skims, Kardashian’s, Price, ” Haider Ackermann, Jenner’s, she’s, She’s, “ Organizations: CNN, Givenchy Locations: Paris, Berlin

BAREFOOT AND WRAPPED in a robe in a hushed Paris hotel suite, 26-year-old entrepreneur and reality star Kylie Jenner is seated at her altar: a vanity. Her longtime hair and makeup artists—who are also her confidantes—hover around her like discreet, black-garbed hummingbirds, making imperceptible tweaks to her long dark hair and flawless skin. It’s several hours before she has to be at the Acne fashion show, but for Jenner, getting ready is half, if not the whole, point. But it’s bigger than that: Do glam, be glam, and you’re ready to conquer the world. No one has profited more from the concept of glam than Kylie Jenner, the youngest of the siblings and the creator of a cosmetics empire that has been valued at over $1 billion.

Persons: Kylie Jenner, —, Jenner, Kardashian, Lindsey Vonn, Kris Jenner, Robert Kardashian, Kourtney, Kim, Caitlin Jenner, Kendall, Kylie, there’s, Rob Locations: Iceland, Hulu

☆ How an Academic Uncovered One of the Biggest Museum Heists of All Time
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Max Colchester | Photography Felix Odell For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ITTAI GRADEL, an academic–turned–gem dealer in Denmark, was trawling eBay a decade ago when he thought he had stumbled across a gold mine. On his screen, Gradel saw a seller called Sultan1966 advertising a glass gem from the 19th century. Gradel immediately recognized it as something much more valuable: an agate Roman Medusa cameo from the second century, featuring the mythical Gorgon with snakes as hair. He snapped it up for £15 plus postage, then turned around and sold it to a collector for a couple of thousand pounds.

Persons: ITTAI GRADEL, –, Gradel Organizations: eBay Locations: Denmark

☆ The All-American Perspective of Ed Ruscha, L.A.’s Coolest Artist
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Kelly Crow | Photography Mario Sorrenti For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ED RUSCHA collects antique bricks. In a corner of the 85-year-old artist’s airy, sprawling Los Angeles studio, Ruscha has arrayed his floor with red-clay blocks stamped with words and phrases that offer clues to their origins or intentions. A few marked PAWHUSKA and MUSKOGEE hail from towns in Oklahoma, the state where Ruscha spent his childhood. DON’T SPIT ON SIDEWALK dates from a Kansas public health campaign during the 1918 pandemic that warned people against spitting on public walkways for fear of spreading Spanish flu. Ruscha’s blue eyes crinkle as he grins and points to a brick stamped PRAY.

Persons: Ruscha Locations: Los Angeles, MUSKOGEE, Oklahoma, Kansas

☆ How Martin Scorsese Made His Most Challenging Movie Yet
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( John Jurgensen | Photography Christopher Anderson For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

MARTIN SCORSESE has been making the movies he calls pictures for practically his whole adult life. But 27 feature films and 16 documentaries later, he says each time is like starting over. “If I feel I’m just shooting the script—and it may be the greatest script ever made—I don’t know what I’m doing. Why am I there?” he says, as the light in a 20th-floor room in Manhattan gradually shifts on a recent afternoon. Know what I mean?”

Persons: MARTIN SCORSESE Locations: Manhattan

☆ Jean Arnault’s New Goals for Louis Vuitton Watches: Make Fewer, Make Finer
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Nick Kostov | Photography Lukas Wassmann For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Jean Arnault was standing in a gilded, mirrored room of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay showing off Louis Vuitton’s newest watch model to a clutch of experts one July morning. The thin unisex watch, named the Tambour, was the result of almost two years of work. But the most valuable Tambour in the building wasn’t on display with the others. His version was made of a rare metal, tantalum. “We’re only going to make one,” Arnault said.

Persons: Jean Arnault, Louis, We’re, ” Arnault, ”

☆ TikTok’s Favorite Pastry Chef Wants to Build Something That Lasts
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( Sarah Medford | Photography Nacho Alegre For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

As a manager, one of his executive chefs says, Grolet gives his staff enough latitude to develop their skills and be creative. Sometimes, the chef admits, he will kill an idea only to circle back to it later. “The French have a saying,” he says. “ ‘Only stupid people don’t change their mind.’”

Persons: Grolet, ”, “, ’

☆ A First Look Inside the Studio of an Art-World Giant
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Sarah Medford | Photography Adrian Gaut For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

THE BOX from abroad was small and nondescript. Inside, bubble-wrapped packets of aluminum foil were twisted into arcs and circles, some sprouting multipronged feet. “The customs agents opened the box and were unwrapping the foils—like, ‘Hey, what’s in here?’ ” says Prudence Fairweather, the recipient of the 2012 shipment. Inside were original models for large-scale sculpture by her late husband, John Chamberlain, who’d shaped each one by hand. They were bound for a retrospective of his work at New York’s Guggenheim Museum.

Persons: ’ ”, Prudence Fairweather, John Chamberlain, who’d, “, ” Organizations: New York’s Guggenheim Museum

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Aniston costars in The Morning Show with Reese Witherspoon and they rose up in the industry together, connecting when Witherspoon played Aniston’s younger sister on two episodes of Friends in 2000. Witherspoon and Aniston in "The Morning Show." Photo: Apple

Persons: Aniston costars, Reese Witherspoon, Witherspoon, Aniston Organizations: Apple

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