"The Holiday Calendar" (2018) is a sweet, if a little predictable, Christmas movie. Kat Graham in "The Holiday Calendar." Netflix Critic score: 33% Synopsis: "The Holiday Calendar" follows Abby Sutton (Kat Graham), a photographer who doesn't quite know what she wants out of life and is afraid to go after her dreams. However, when her grandfather (Ron Cephas Jones) gives her a magical advent calendar, it helps her gain the confidence she needs to be herself.

TV The reality show '90 Day Fiancé' claims to have found couples going through the visa process, but is that actually how they cast the show? Published on November 1, 2018 2 min read Every season of 90 Day Fiancé fans watch couples go through the visa process and spend 90 days in America. They then hopefully move forward to get married. But fans probably question what is real and what is fake on the show including are the couples real, to begin with?

Raspberries baked in muscat sabayon. Photograph: Pia RiverolaView image in fullscreenRaspberries baked in muscat sabayon. Photograph: Pia RiverolaThe ObserverBakingChocolate hazelnut cake, vegan chocolate chip cookies, treacle tart with whipped cream – recipes from the Violet Cakes founder’s new book, Love is a Pink Cake When I’m thinking up recipes, I’m trying to satisfy a craving,” says Claire Ptak, founder of Violet Cakes in east London. Her command of flavours and textures and the outright beauty of her creations has made her one of London’s best-loved bakers, sought after by Hackney residents and royalty alike.

Smash Mouth singer Steve Harwell died on September 4, 2023, from liver failure. He was 56 years old. Harwell leaves behind his ex-wife Michelle Laroque. The couple’s son Presley died when he was six months old from acute lymphocytic leukemia. Presley was the couple’s only kid. Harwell never re-married or had more children. He was engaged to Esther Campbell and Harwell’s manager said his fiancée was by his side. “Steve is resting at home [and] being cared for by his fiancée and hospice care,” his manager Robert Hayes, shared in a statement the night before Harwell died.

FictionReviewA group portrait of Japanese 'picture brides' in America"Some of us on the boat were from Kyoto and were delicate and fair, and had lived our entire lives in darkened rooms at the back of the house. Some of us were from Nara, and prayed to our ancestors three times a day, and swore we could still hear the temple bells ringing. Some of us were farmers' daughters from Yamaguchi with thick wrists and broad shoulders who had never gone to bed after nine.