Old-fashioned baby names are roaring back into fashion — and experts say they know why

Old-fashioned baby names are roaring back into fashion — and experts say they know why

In recent years, out-there, creative or trendy baby names were all the rage — now it seems like the classic, old-fashioned ones are popular again. According to Jennifer Moss, founder and CEO of BabyNames.com and baby-name consultant Taylor A. Humphrey, grandma-like names such as Eleanor, Eloise, Elodie, Alma, Margaret, Nora and Bennett, are “super trendy” for girls … Read more

Who was Dorothy Parker? Defining voice of NYC’s Roaring Twenties, ‘A Star is Born’ scribe and more

Who was Dorothy Parker? Defining voice of NYC’s Roaring Twenties, ‘A Star is Born’ scribe and more

Dorothy Parker did not like movies. She did not like Hollywood. And she really did not like the people who ran it. The native New Yorker — whose witty, urbane writing helped define the Roaring Twenties — couldn’t even deign to utter the words Los Angeles; she called it “out there.”  Yet in 1929, at … Read more

Rocking on: Linkin Park comes roaring back to life with new singer at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center

Rocking on: Linkin Park comes roaring back to life with new singer at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center

It’s been a long road back for Linkin Park, one of the biggest bands of the 21st century. After lead singer Chester Bennington died by suicide in 2017, the alt-metal powerhouses that mixed hard rock with hip-hop went on an indefinite hiatus, with their future uncertain. But after meeting Dead Sara singer Emily Armstrong in … Read more