The True Story Behind Robert Pattinson’s Primetime: Chris Hansen and the Rise of To Catch a Predator

The True Story Behind Robert Pattinson’s Primetime: Chris Hansen and the Rise of To Catch a Predator

Robert Pattinson Addresses Chris Hansen’s Criticism Over Playing Him in ‘Primetime’ Content warning: This story discusses suicide. Once upon a time, To Catch a Predator was must-see cringe TV. Millions of people tuned in to watch a series of unwitting men arrive at a nondescript house in the suburbs for what they thought was going…

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Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s ‘The Beloved’ Stages a Father-Daughter Reckoning That Doesn’t Quite Cohere

Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s ‘The Beloved’ Stages a Father-Daughter Reckoning That Doesn’t Quite Cohere

Javier Bardem and Victoria Luengo. Courtesy TIFF More interesting than alluring, Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Cannes competition title and TIFF Special Presentation El ser querido (or The Beloved) follows a fearsome director trying to reconnect with his distant daughter by casting her in a role. It has the misfortune of bearing a passing familiarity to Sentimental Value,…

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No More ‘Trump Avenue’: Canada’s Capital Votes to Rename Residential Street Amid Tense Trade War

No More ‘Trump Avenue’: Canada’s Capital Votes to Rename Residential Street Amid Tense Trade War

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney at the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 16, 2026. —Evelyn Hockstein—Getty Images Ottawa’s City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to remove President Donald Trump’s name from a residential street in the Canadian capital amid an increasingly hostile trade war. The motion…

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Director Soyoung Yoon Says Critical Theory Still Anchors the Whitney ISP, Just Not the Way It Used To

Director Soyoung Yoon Says Critical Theory Still Anchors the Whitney ISP, Just Not the Way It Used To

Soyoung Yoon, director of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. Photo: Bryan Derballa Earlier this summer, scholar Soyoung Yoon was named the new director of the Whitney Independent Study Program. She succeeds Ron Clark, who led the program for more than half a century. Yoon is a graduate of ISP herself, having arrived as a…

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The Herbert Lust Collection Lands at Christie’s, Led by a $30M Giacometti

The Herbert Lust Collection Lands at Christie’s, Led by a M Giacometti

Herbert Lust at the Pepsico Sculpture Garden in Purchase, NY. Courtesy the Herbert Lust Estate As we approach the November marquee sales, auction houses are beginning to announce the estates they have secured for the season. Following Sotheby’s announcement of Dick Hedreen’s $90 million trove, Christie’s announced it had secured the highly anticipated collection of…

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The Fed Moved. The Borrowing Math Changed for Businesses.

The Fed Moved. The Borrowing Math Changed for Businesses.

After months of uncertainty around the Fed’s next move, business owners now have a clearer rate assumption to use when evaluating investments, financing and cash flow. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images When we wrote about Jackson Hole last month, the market was looking for clues about what the Federal Reserve might do next. Last week,…

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Why K-Pop Took Off When C-Pop Didn’t

Why K-Pop Took Off When C-Pop Didn’t

The interest went beyond public musing: Beijing resolved to learn from Seoul’s example. China’s culture ministry signed an agreement with its South Korean counterpart, providing for annual cultural-industry forums and cooperation in marketing cultural products abroad.  But it is one thing for Beijing to study Seoul’s cultural outreach, and quite another to match it. China,…

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