Month: January 2020

Robert De Niro, presented with a SAG lifetime achievement award, speaks up for candidates who support unions and speaks out against ‘abuse of power.’ Upon being presented with a lifetime achievement award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night, the surprising thing wasn’t that Robert De Niro got political, but that he did…

With just three weeks to go until the Oscars, this year’s unpredictable awards season took another surprising twist at Sunday evening’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, as Hollywood’s actors gave their highest honor to Bong Joon Ho’s genre-scrambling class satire “Parasite.” Beating out a diverse field including “Bombshell,” “The Irishman,” “Jojo Rabbit” and “Once Upon a…

Dear Liz: If my wife and I sell our primary residence of 12 years, I understand we can exclude up to $500,000 in home sale profits from taxes. But if we rent it for a year or two, then sell, have we lost that tax break by converting it to income property? Answer: As long…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —  SpaceX completed the last big test of its crew capsule before launching astronauts in as little as two months, mimicking an emergency escape shortly after liftoff Sunday. No one was aboard for the wild ride in the skies above Cape Canaveral, just two mannequins. A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off as normal,…

Dahlem is one of the most affluent neighborhoods in Berlin, its lovely, leafy streets lined with large mansions — villas, the Germans call them — built mostly in the early 1900s. As I walked from the thatch-roofed Dahlem-Dorf U-Bahn station to dinner at the home of a not-exactly-Daddy-Warbucks friend one recent evening, I initially puzzled…

I’m Business columnist David Lazarus, with a look today at airline baggage fees. Or, more broadly, nickel-and-dime fees in general. Newsletter Get our weekly business newsletter JetBlue Airways last week said it was jacking up its baggage fees for the second time in two years (thanks, guys!). Your first checked bag will now cost $35,…

On the fashion front, it was the battle of the network (and streaming) stars at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday. Whether marking the last official congregation for the “Game of Thrones” cast, which completed its eighth and final season last year, or the soon-to-start fourth season for “Stranger Things,” the actors brought their…

The Screen Actors Guild Awards are frequently described as an actors-celebrating-their-own kind of affair and, based on Sunday night’s awards, it was a celebrate-your-own-style affair as well, with most of the memorable looks coming down the silver carpet pumping up the volume, amping up the color and showcasing boldness — in terms of pattern and…

The second major televised event of the 2020 awards season stood out from the pack Sunday by featuring a silver carpet in lieu of a traditional red one. Turns out tradition went to the wayside as we witnessed a variety of looks and (perhaps) a few emerging trends make their way to the Shrine Auditorium…

TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska —  There are no restaurants in Toksook Bay, Alaska. No motels or movie theater, either. There aren’t any factories. Or roads. But the first Americans to be counted in the 2020 census live in this tiny community of 661 on the edge of the American expanse. Their homes are huddled together in a…