Like the rest of us, I followed the news last summer of the July 4 flood that devastated Texas’s Hill Country with a pit in my stomach and a lump in my throat. The notion that one horrific natural disaster could sweep away 27 kids at a summer camp—the Christian all-girls Camp Mystic—seemed unfathomable. What I didn’t fully appreciate at the time, though, was how many other people lost their lives in that same catastrophe, how the media had not given their stories the same amount of attention, and how their deaths could have been prevented if just a few more precautions had been taken before the storm hit. Until I started working with Karen Valby on a one-year-anniversary piece about the flood, I also had no idea that the flood’s survivors, in many cases, were the ones who sifted through the wreckage themselves to find their loved ones’ remains. I hope you’ll read Karen’s gripping account of the flood and everything after; it’s a tough sit, but a necessary one.
Elsewhere today, Rita Omokha talks to the man on a mission to make Red Lobster cool; Charles Melton swings by Little Gold Men; and Colman Domingo, Emily Blunt, and Josh O’Connor question Steven Spielberg.
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HILLARY BUSIS,
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“I don’t know that I’ll ever swim in the South Fork of the Guadalupe again, and it runs through my soul,” says Christine Chenoweth. “The river that killed Jane was the same river that baptized her.”
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As the youngest ever CEO of the beloved seafood chain, Damola Adamolekun has gone on a press tour straight out of a celebrity playbook and taken to the internet to directly communicate with customers like a fandom. But following the restaurant’s bankruptcy in 2024, can he pull off a comeback?
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The star of Beef season 2 talks Korean cinema, life as a new dad, and the best form of revenge.
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Steven Spielberg, Colman Domingo, Emily Blunt, and Josh O’Connor—that should be enough reason to watch our latest video with the cast of Disclosure Day. The famed director gets pressed by his starry leads and discloses on extra-terrestrial visits, almost directing Rain Man, and getting kicked off set by Alfred Hitchcock.
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