Koen, a Dutch housewife who emulated her hero, Jesse Owens, and won four gold medals in track and field in one Olympics — the ...

Early in the first act, exploding tomato cans and a dance sequence featuring performers in colorful costumes and bearing ...

Matriarch. Bibliophile. Cook. Style-setter. Born Jan. 4, 1935, in Luseland, Sask.; died Dec. 15, 2025, in Toronto, after a brief illness; aged 90. If you saw a photo of me as an infant with my mother, ...

From Le Bon Marché in Paris to Macy’s in New York, we delve into the history of the world’s most iconic department stores.

I’ve gone to work on an oyster farm on Block Island, a tiny dot of land midway between Long Island and Rhode Island, every ...

Fifty years ago, a controversial writer named Shere Hite taught us how to talk about sex and pleasure, selling books by the ...

“Weird question,” I wrote, then asked if he knew anyone who’d given up a baby girl the same day and year my mom was born.

The United States urged its citizens to leave Israel and the UAE “now” as a fresh wave of strikes was launched against Iran.

Marquis de Morès had a wild life—and a short one. That’s probably for the best.

For most of the 120 years that Variety has covered the entertainment industry, creatives followed a tried and true script to gain the attention of Hollywood’s gatekeepers by cutting their teeth on ...

A collection of unusual and interesting objects once part of a historic French collection is going under the hammer at Sheppard’s sale of Paradigms and the Unexpected (10 to 12 March). The 150 lots of ...

The joint US-Israeli assault on Iran, which began in the early morning hours of February 28, is a criminal act of war waged ...