Fat
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Magazine
Can You Retire if You Never Had a Job? NOFX Will Try.
After 40 years, the punk band NOFX is walking away with a farewell tour that is nothing short of a victory lap. When they were teenagers, the group developed an extreme do-it-yourself ethos. They had no interest in working for anyone else. As “the ...
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World
Got Time for Milk? An Overwhelmed House, Somehow, Does.
With aid to Ukraine and Israel in limbo, a border deal elusive and a mountain of spending legislation left undone, the House turned its attention to whole milk in schools.
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World
Why the New Obesity Guidelines for Kids Terrify Me
This month, the American Academy of Pediatrics released its first comprehensive guidelines for evaluating and treating children and adolescents with obesity. The paper, co-written by 21 prominent doctors, health researchers and obesity experts ...
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World
The Cruel Spectacle of ‘The Whale’
“The Whale,” Darren Aronofsky’s latest film, is one you hope, desperately, will be seen by an audience that has the necessary cultural literacy, the empathy, to watch the story and recognize that the on-screen portrayal of fatness bears little ...
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World
Kirstie Alley Was a Fat, Glamorous Actress. That Was Radical.
Back in the early aughts, after years as a sitcom star but before she became a MAGA cheerleader and a Tucker Carlson guest, Kirstie Alley committed one of the cardinal sins for women in Hollywood. She gained weight. The tabloids treated this ...
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Magazine
Kirstie Alley’s Dance With Hollywood
Long before the current body-positivity movement, Ms. Alley made people think about fatness on TV, often at her own expense.
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Arts
‘Fat Ham,’ a Pulitzer-Winning Riff on ‘Hamlet,’ Is Broadway-Bound
The play, by James Ijames, will be at the American Airlines Theater starting March 21.