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When love turns into competition instead of care
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When love turns into competition instead of care

It’s a slow slide that many couples don’t notice until the scorekeeping, subtle jabs and one-upmanship have already replaced tenderness. It can happen to anyone: high-achieving partners, new parents, entrepreneurs building dreams, even longtime couples who once finished each other’s sentences. What begins as playful banter turns into a race for validation, and the relationship...

Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad With Quinoa and Apple
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Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad With Quinoa and Apple

With crisp apples, protein-packed quinoa, and a sweet-and-tangy orange vinaigrette, this Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad works as a light meal or as a holiday side dish! Brussels sprouts are so fabulous when they’re roasted (ahem: Maple Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Onions and Apples) that I forgot they also make a stellar base for a salad. Evidence?...

2025-26 NBA Preview: Southwest Division
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2025-26 NBA Preview: Southwest Division

The Western Conference’s Southwest Division might just be the most intriguing in all of the NBA this upcoming season, with a league-high four teams we project will win at least 45 games in 2025-26.  The Houston Rockets begin the first season of the Kevin Durant era with sky-high expectations after earning the No. 2 overall...

Here’s how John Singleton finally sold ‘Boyz N the Hood’
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Here’s how John Singleton finally sold ‘Boyz N the Hood’

The Life of Singleton: From Boyz N the Hood to Snowfall is available now from Andscape Books. In this excerpt, writer Thomas Golianopoulos details the hoops John Singleton had to go through to sell his groundbreaking film, Boyz N the Hood. CAA shopped Singleton as a writer in early 1990, introducing him to actors and...

How D’Angelo stripped down R&B
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How D’Angelo stripped down R&B

To understand just how audacious D’Angelo’s defiantly low-fi debut single “Brown Sugar” sounded on the radio in the summer of 1995, you’d have to look back at the urban music landscape of that year. The burgeoning hip-hop soul movement, led by its queen, Mary J. Blige, was at full throttle from artists such as Jodeci...