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'Just Go With It' and Other Jennifer Aniston Movies Streaming on Netflix

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Movies Netflix is serving up another Aniston-Sandler comedy. The 2011 rom-com 'Just Go With It' landed on Netflix May 22. Netflix also has several more Jennifer Aniston movies to stream. Published on June 2, 2020 2 min read Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler scored a Netflix hit last year with Murder Mystery. The movie about a NYC couple whose long-awaited European vacation goes horribly awry was the most popular Netflix original film in 2019. Read More...

'The Gun Machine' Ep. 1: Examining the origin of the U.S.'s gun industry

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The symbiotic relationship between the gun industry and the government goes all the way back to the 1790s when the Founding Fathers created an open-source think tank in Massachusetts: the Springfield Armory. Its mission: Make the best guns in the world. From WBUR and The Trace, the podcast series "The Gun Machine" explains how the United States has shaped and been shaped by, the gun industry — and how we all play a role. Read More...

Androgynous, with a feminine twist

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BooksReviewThe autobiography of Mary Quant, godmother of the miniskirtThe autobiographies of fashion designers have a tendency to cover up as much as they reveal, which might be an artful indication of their craft, albeit frustrating for the reader. Coco Chanel embarked on several failed attempts with ghostwriters, and then decided against all of them; Christian Dior produced a tantalisingly opaque account of his life, with little in the way of personal detail; while Elsa Schiaparelli was as creative in reinventing her past as she was with her surrealist costumes, leaving the briefest of memoirs behind her. Read More...

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