In the beginning, waiting for the baby to feed or stop feeding or burp or pass wind or yellow liquid shit, I postponed showers, phone calls, bowel movements. With the baby I could spend four days in two rooms, so tired I was half blind. The perimeter of my vision shrank to a bull’s-eye. I ignored correspondence because I had no energy even to write I am so tired, and no one would care that I was tired — who isn’t tired?
When Eric Dane was killed off at the beginning of Season 9 of “Grey’s Anatomy,” fans of Mark Sloan and his shirtless ways mourned his loss … but it all started to make more sense when he was cast as Tom Chandler on TNT’s “The Last Ship” a month later.
Although Dane was happy to join the Michael Bay-created series, he admitted that it was hard for him to leave “Grey’s” behind.
“’Grey’s Anatomy’ is a world … it’s not about any one individual actor and the storylines were sort of … you know, heading in different directions. So it was an opportunity for me to go and I was interested in something different,” he told EW. “I loved doing ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’ I would have done it until the final episode, but this was something I couldn’t pass up.”
DETROIT — Detroit’s emergency manager says he’s hearing a lot of “vitriol” but not many counter proposals on how to get the city out of debt.
Kevyn Orr took Detroit into Chapter 9 bankruptcy last week with the blessing of Gov. Rick Snyder. He told radio station WDET on Thursday that creditors, unions and other critics are wasting time by calling him names. He says it’s time for mature talks.
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Social media users are painting the Internet orange today in support of a campaign to defend the rights and safety of women and girls.
For this month’s Orange Day topic, the U.N.’s UNiTE To End Violence Against Women Campaign is asking social media users to help make the internet a safer space for women and girls by speaking out against online sexual exploitation, pornography, trafficking, cyberstalking and other issues that affect women and girls.
The campaign asks people to tweet #OrangeDay statuses, follow the @SayNO_UNiTE handle, change their personal Facebook profile pictures to the UNiTE Ribbon logo, and post awesome photos of themselves wearing orange.
The Sony Cyber-shot RX100 is a seriously hot camera, but its understated black-box body won’t win a pizzazz contest. The Hasselblad Stellar is the same camera as the Sony RX100, gussied up with fancy accoutrements such as a zebra-wood grip, …
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Homeless people in Hawaii wishing to return to their families on the mainland will soon be able to turn to the state for financial help with the journey, when a hotly debated program launches later this year.
State legislators have organized a three-year “Return to Home” pilot program, which will have a $100,000 annual budget. Supporters of the effort, which will begin next fiscal year, touted it as a move that would serve the dual purposes of aiding the state’s 17,000 homeless people and reducing the burden they put on the state’s infrastructure. The bill to which the measure was attached also included funding for substance abuse treatment, mental health programs, and clean and sober housing, as well as various rental and housing assistance programs.
Some members of Hawaii’s Department of Human Services, which will be tasked with managing the “Return to Home” experiment, have expressed concerns about potential abuse.
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Now that the kerfuffle around the title of “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” has been sorted out, it’s time to get audiences excited to see the upcoming civil rights drama.
Out Aug. 16, Daniels’ new film is positioned as an antidote the superheroes and explosions of this year’s summer blockbusters, and could find success similar to “The Help,” another film about civil rights that found box office success and Oscar glory in August of 2011.
“Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” about a White House service worker who spent eight administrations in the presence of presidents, features an all-star cast. Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey star, as do a plethora of famous faces playing famous politicians: John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Robin Williams as Dwight D. Eisenhower, James Marsden as John F. Kennedy, Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan and Jane Fonda as his wife, Nancy.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will tell lawmakers Thursday that it won’t declare Egypt’s government overthrow a coup, U.S. officials said, allowing the United States to continue providing $1.5 billion in annual military and economic aid to the Arab world’s most populous country.
William Burns, the State Department’s No. 2 official, will hold closed-doors briefings with members of the House and Senate just a day after Washington delayed delivery of four F-16 fighter jets to Egypt. It was the first U.S. action since the military ousted Mohammed Morsi as president, imprisoned him and other Muslim Brotherhood members and suspended the constitution earlier this month.
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It looks like big changes are coming to one of our favorite design magazines.
Clinton Smith, editorial director of Atlantic Homes and Lifestyles, has been named the new editor-in-chief of Veranda magazine. The news comes just two months after the current EIC, Dara Caponigro, announced she would be stepping down from the role.
“Clint has devoted his career to covering style, design and decoration, and there is no one better qualified to take the helm of VERANDA,” Newell Turner, editorial director of the Hearst Design Group said in a press release. “His strong relationships with designers and manufacturers are a tremendous asset, and his passion for great design will inspire readers of every issue.”
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