Julia Carmel

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Julia Carmel

When Makena Brister and Shawn Arnold arrived on Santa Catalina Island just off the coast of Southern California on Saturday afternoon, they had one thing on their minds: the raunchy 2008 comedy “Step Brothers.”The 22-year-olds stepped off their ferry in matching blue button-down shirts and argyle sweater vests, dressed to recreate the movie’s memorable poster of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, who star in the film as two middle-aged men that begrudgingly become family when their parents remarry.

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Julia Carmel

Edmund White, acclaimed novelist of gay life, dies at 85 (washingtonpost.com) Edmund White, acclaimed novelist of gay life, dies at 85 By Juno Carmel 2025060411591300 Edmund White, a father of modern queer literature who literally wrote the book on gay sex, and who blended honesty and humor in a trilogy of semiautobiographical novels that traced the trajectory of gay life in the 20th century — from oppression to liberation to the terror of AIDS — died June 3 at his home in Manhattan. He was...

3 weeks ago | sfexaminer.com | Julia Carmel

When Makena Brister and Shawn Arnold arrived on Santa Catalina Island just off the coast of Southern California on Saturday afternoon, they had one thing on their minds: the raunchy 2008 comedy "Step Brothers."The 22-year-olds stepped off their ferry in matching blue button-down shirts and argyle sweater vests, dressed to recreate the movie's memorable poster of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, who star in the film as two middle-aged men that begrudgingly become family when their parents remarry.

Feb 27, 2025 | nytimes.com | Julia Carmel

Last Friday, Hunter Schafer, the trans actress who starred in the HBO series "Euphoria," posted an eight-and-a-half-minute video on TikTok revealing that she had just received a new passport with a male marker - nearly a decade after changing her gender marker to female on identity documents. "I was shocked," Ms. Schafer said in the video. "I just didn't think it was actually going to happen."President Trump signed an executive order on Jan.

Dec 19, 2024 | nytimes.com | Julia Carmel

"People deserve to know upfront what they're being asked to pay - without worrying that they'll later be saddled with mysterious fees that they haven't budgeted for and can't avoid," Lina M. Khan, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, said in a statement announcing the rule. Here's what you need to know.