Culture

There’s a photo you’ve probably seen of Barack Obama and Anthony Bourdain hunched over a small table in Hanoi. Their sleeves are rolled up, their top buttons unbuttoned. The floor is speckled with dirt and a rusty fan blows air from a corner. Obama, a few months into his final …

Mitzi Shore, the comedy impresario who helped launch the stand-up careers of Robin Williams, David Letterman and more, and exerted widespread influence in the 1970s and 1980s as the owner of the Comedy Store in Los Angeles, died Wednesday at 87. The Comedy Store confirmed Shore’s death in a brief …

The point of any debut novel is to make a splash and get the writer noticed. And in the case of Sean Penn, the author of Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff– well, he’s had no trouble getting people to talk about his work. The book was controversial even before …

Serena Williams won’t defend her Australian Open title. Following the birth of her child in September 2017, Williams said she still isn’t where she wants to be and won’t go to a tournament if she’s not prepared to go all the way. Williams, however, also said she is “super close.” …