Adrienne Westenfeld

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Sarah Rense |Adrienne Westenfeld

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links."You've got a new home to furnish, and you need to give it some personality. In fact, you need to make up a personality for yourself. You might be into photography. Perhaps literature, music, or film are more your thing. We just need something a bit more artistic than TV, and we need to showcase it.

2 months ago | esquire.com | Adrienne Westenfeld |Bria McNeal |Josh Rosenberg

NFLのスタークォーターバックが年間約5000万ドル（約76億4000万円）の報酬を得ていることを考えると、スーパーボウルという年に一度の大舞台でパフォーマンスを披露する音楽界のスーパースターたちも同じく数百万ドルのギャラを受け取っていると思うかもしれない。 しかし、現実はまったく違う。今年のハーフタイムショーの主役であるケンドリック・ラマーは、NFL選手並みの報酬を手にすることはないのだ。 Jump to: 実はハーフタイムショー出演者には報酬が支払われない それでもアーティストにとって魅力的な舞台 13分間のショーにかかる巨額の制作費 アーティストにとっての最大の報酬は「露出」 無償労働を強いられるバックダンサーたち ケンドリック・ラマー、スーパーボウル再登場へ 実はハーフタイムショー出演者には報酬が支払われない 驚くべきことに、スーパーボウルのハーフタイムショーに出演するアーティストは、実質的にギャラを受け取っていない。NFLの方針として、ハーフタイムショーの制作費はすべてリーグが負担するが、出演者に直接報酬が支払われることはない。ただし、旅費などの経費はNFLが負担する。...

2 months ago | esquire.com | Adrienne Westenfeld |Bria McNeal |Josh Rosenberg

With NFL starting quarterbacks pulling in annual salaries around $50 million [around £40m], we'd forgive you for thinking that the musical superstars who lend their talents to the most important game of the year also earn millions of dollars. Well, that is very much not the case. Kendrick Lamar is this year’s halftime performer, and he won't take home anything nearing an NFL salary for the big concert. The surprising truth is that halftime performers aren’t paid to perform at the Super Bowl.

Nov 29, 2024 | esquire.com | Adrienne Westenfeld

Si sente spesso parlare di binge watching, ma i lettori più appassionati avranno provato qualcosa di simile con il binge reading, che prevede la lettura immersiva di romanzi, che siano corti e coinvolgenti. I migliori libri brevi non sono soltanto letture rapide: sono viaggi intensi che trasportano in mondi lontani, lasciando un segno indelebile.

Nov 26, 2024 | esquire.com | Adrienne Westenfeld

In 2007, Esquire mailed 250 cocktail napkins to writers across the country with this request: fill the blank space with fiction. We received nearly 100 napkin stories and published them all as part of The Napkin Project. The project had been on the shelf—in our archive, to be exact—for the last sixteen years, until July 2023, when we revived it. We published additional rounds in December of that year (Holiday Edition), April 2024 (Love Stories), and July ’24 (Summer Vacation).