Author: Sam Allcock

The comment section had already done what comment sections do by the time Haiden Henderson posted that TikTok in which he casually talked about writing a song for his girlfriend. Thousands of fans putting together timelines and watching old clips again and again until they finally land on Sophie Silva. It’s the kind of relationship reveal that seems both sudden and, looking back, completely natural. Henderson is a singer-songwriter from California who lived out of a truck in Los Angeles for a while in the beginning of his career before getting over 100 million streams. He has always kept his…

There’s something quietly nice about Nadine Lustre right now. As in the way people act when they’ve actually figured out a few things, not in a fake, well-polished way for PR reasons. For a famous person who spent years being watched closely by a famous couple in a relationship, Nadine feels very different now. Feeling better. More at ease. She says that a lot of that is because of Christophe Bariou, the Filipino-French businessman she’s been building a life with in Siargao. The two have been together for a while now. They haven’t tried to be famous, but no one…

There are pictures that can tell you more than any written account of the game. An image that went around earlier this summer shows a young Nathan Saliba, who isn’t even a teenager yet and is still finding his way. He is standing between his parents, looking at them with the kind of ease that comes from being in a home where you want to be. That image keeps coming back when you try to understand how a kid from Longueuil, Quebec ended up scoring a free-kick goal at a FIFA World Cup. Parents of Nathan Saliba are Claude Richard…

Things sound a little off about how Mitch Greer talks about dating. Most people on social media either share too much information or keep their personal lives secret like secret documents. People have noticed that Greer seems to have found a middle ground. The Australian TikTok star has gained a lot of fans by being open about her life as a transgender woman. Her videos about her love life are some of the most watched and talked about on her channel. The fact that a video called “A very frequently asked question” with Greer answering questions about her boyfriend can…

A few months ago, Jelly Roll told the world that his wife saved his life at the Grammy Awards, which is one of the biggest stages in music. He really meant it. It was clear in his voice—the way it cracked a little when he thanked her. He told the group, “I would have died or gone to jail.” People can believe in love again after seeing that. It was February. He had asked for a divorce by May. Court records from Williamson County, Tennessee, show that the news came out in the middle of June. People know him as…

Why is Jonathan Isaac still wearing an Orlando Magic uniform? It’s a cool little fact. Isaac was born in the Bronx, New York, on October 3, 1997. He turned 28 last fall. That’s what the NBA calls “prime time”—the time when skill and experience are most valuable, when contracts get bigger and roles become clear. But 28 looks different for Isaac than it does for most players his age. It seems more earned. He joined the league as the sixth overall pick in 2017. He was 19 years old, 6 feet 10 inches tall, and had defensive instincts that made…

People used to think that getting on Letterman or Leno was like pulling off something very close to magic. With the right couch look, a movie could make it through its first weekend. The studios knew it. It was what publicists expected. The guest would walk out, sit down, and say something cute, which made millions of people at home think of something fun to do over the weekend. It was a machine that worked amazingly well for decades. That machine is going slow and might even stop for good. When Stephen Colbert’s Late Show was canceled last month, it…

Watching a multimillionaire carry their own groceries into a camera frame seems a little strange. It takes place so often these days that it hardly seems newsworthy. An important star was seen at a gas station. Someone else was seen at Target, looking a little startled, like the paparazzi caught them there by accident. It’s always the same story: they’re just like us. The problem is that they’re not. That’s why an actor in Hollywood is selling their home right now to prove it. The era of celebrities being relatable didn’t just happen. Over the course of ten years of…

It sounds like this story is almost too easy to be true in one setting. A TV show production moves quickly. Plenty of due dates. A song is added to a scene without first making sure the rights are clear. This could be an editor or a coordinator two levels below the person in charge. The show comes on. A lot of people watch. The lawyers then show up. Getting permission to use music in TV shows has always been a tricky business. Every piece of music used in a production usually needs two different clearances: one for the underlying…

The feeling of being embarrassed that you found the answer where you should have looked first is unique. The researchers from the Workforce Information Council found that location to be a shared drive folder with the name “Archive_Final_v2” and found that no one had clicked on it in years. It had a spreadsheet in it. It’s not a fancy data warehouse or a custom modeling system. Spreadsheets are made up of rows and columns that sit still. It’s important to think about that detail because the story of how this file came to be important shows how labor research really…