Gabbriette wasn’t always so comfortable in her own skin, but she was determined. She started modeling in her last year of school, appearing in an American Apparel ad. “I never got paid, but I was like, ‘Mom, Dad: I’m not going to college, because I’m going to be a model.’” The modeling career she’d promised … Read more
The best history podcasts actually have a lot to say about the present. After all, as novelist Pearl Buck once poignantly put it: “If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” With current global affairs shifting at an ever-quickening pace and an important election on the horizon, there’s never been a better … Read more
A few months ago, as I was leaving the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles, I noticed something unusual. When a comedy set is over, I’m used to seeing audiences file out of the venue looking mildly relieved to be free. But the people at Trans-It Girls, a show put on by Hayden Johnson and Nori … Read more
If you’ve ever heard an ice cream truck playing a little jingle as it drove down your street on a hot summer day, you’ve been touched by the marketing genius of Bob Nichols. You’ve never heard of him, but he’s the guy responsible for all of the music that gets played out of nearly every … Read more
An Apple film production has been running around the Formula 1 paddock during the 2023 and 2024 seasons, working on a new F1 movie driven by lead actor Brad Pitt and producer Lewis Hamilton, called “F1.” According to reports, the film has already blown through its entire $300 million budget with plenty of production still … Read more
Screenshot: Adeem the Artist It’s the 4th of July, folks, which means two things. Jalopnik has the day off, and it’s once again time for me to force you to listen to a relatively obscure song about cars. I mean, I can’t actually force you to listen to it, but I’m going to do my … Read more
Gif: HotWheelsFan2002 VGCP / YouTube Nothing embodied the American auto industry in the 2000s like Toby Keith trying to sell a Ford F-150 on television. While the Blue Oval-loving musician appeared in numerous Ford ads across the decade, this commercial for the 2007 Ford F-150 called out to me recently. Toby Keith’s Ford F-150 Truck … Read more
In The Coin, Yasmin Zaher’s novel about a young Palestinian woman doing her best to build a life that works for her in New York City, cleanliness is, indeed, close to godliness. Zaher’s narrator becomes obsessed with spotlessness and purity even as she gets sucked further and further into chaos while balancing her job teaching … Read more
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Occasionally, when Remi Wolf talks about her new album, Big Ideas, she lulls herself into autopilot, her body operating with no input from her brain. During a recent meeting, as she discusses studio logistics in her syrupy alto (“We worked at Electric Lady in New York, we worked at Conway in LA…”), she reaches across … Read more
You’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t experienced imposter syndrome at one point or another. But while it’s commonplace, it’s still a damaging mindset that can hold us back from reaching our potential—particularly when it comes to our careers. We asked Gemma Perlin, a behavioral change coach, to share some practical tips for … Read more
