“What are you wearing tonight, then?” — Last week, for the first time in decades, Hugh Grant broke the Internet — which they didn’t actually say decades ago. So perhaps I should say, for the first time in decades, Hugh Grant was trending. They didn’t say that decades ago either, but the gist of what happened was…

Radio could be a land of confusion back then — and that was music to our ears. — Kids today are so literal. And nobody caters to that common denominator quite like the modern pop star. The committee-style songwriting that produces most contemporary hits doesn’t leave much to the imagination. …

Mental incompetence, like one’s prime, can happen at any age. — Over the past 10 days or so, there’s been much ado about comments Don Lemon made February 16 on his show CNN This Morning. He said, among other things, that according to Google, women are no longer in their prime once they’re past the age of 50. Now that isn’t…

To the (White) victors go the spoils — This has not been a banner award season for Black performers. Don’t be fooled by Angela Bassett’s frontrunner status for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Not only is her nomination for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever only her second career nod and her first in 29 years (she was up for…

Why do I love women? It’s never been because of what they’re wearing. — Although I like to think of myself as an overachiever, the best I can be, by Queer Eye standards, my gay sensibility is somewhat lacking. …

How I went from merely accepting my race to proudly and passionately embracing it. — There’s a memorable episode of the ’70s and ’80s TV sitcom The Jeffersons in which Allan Willis, the White son of mixed-race couple Tom and Helen Willis, makes an uncomfortable blanket presumption. While discussing race and jealousy with his sister, Jenny, who is Black, and several of the show’s other…

Sisters with voices have proven their fluency in country music— so why is chart success still so elusive? — “Country is what you make it,” Tom T. Hall sang on his 1974 single “Country Is.” The late singer-songwriter, author of “Harper Valley P.T.A.” as well as singer and writer of seven No. …

We interrupt this magic moment for a social media post. — It was 10 years ago today that I first saw you. I couldn’t believe it when our eyes met from across the pool at the Burj Al Arab Jumeirah in Dubai. I was living my best life, and you were stretched out on a chaise lounge, looking good enough to…

There’s a sad beauty to being on your own — but solitude can mess with your head. — My husband is leaving me. Don’t worry; our marriage is fine. But in two days, we’ll be separated for the first time since our wedding day three years ago. He’s heading to Australia, where he is from, on Tuesday. It will be his first trip back “home” since moving with…