In the late aughts, Sarma Melngailis became one of New York's hottest restaurateurs thanks to Pure Food and Wine, her vegan eatery whose celebrity clientele included Owen Wilson and Alec Baldwin, and her spin-off cookbooks. Over time, the raw food restaurant developed mysterious fiscal issues and closed in 2015. In May of the following year, it was announced that Melngailis and her husband Anthony Strangis had been apprehended in Tennessee by cops who tracked them down because they ordered a pie from Domino's Pizza. Read More...
The coolest grandmas you know Alfeo Dixon/Lionsgate; Netflix; Helen Sloan/HBO Forget the stereotype of an apron-clad grandma baking cookies and playing bingo—today's grandmas are looking for a little more excitement! And, on TV and in movies, they're virtually unstoppable. Whether inventing the perfect sex toy for seniors like the titular friends on Grace and Frankie or poisoning an enemy as Lady Olenna did on Game of Thrones, there's no telling what your favorite on-screen family matriarch is capable of. Read More...
Welcome back to the Hunger Games. A new crop of tributes will enter the arena in Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the Hunger Games prequel centered on a teenaged Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth, preceding Donald Sutherland) before his days as tyrannical president of Panem. In the prequel — in theaters Nov. 17 — it's the 10th annual Hunger Games, a spectacle wherein district children are forced to fight to the death as punishment for the insurrection the districts waged against the Capitol during the first civil war. Read More...
