A personal breast cancer story plays out on-screen
Last season on NBC’s “Parenthood,” Kristina Braverman (Monica Potter) is making pancakes, nervously anticipating her looming chemotherapy for breast cancer. Her mother-in-law, Camille (Bonnie Bedelia),...
View ArticleDon’t miss: A preview of the week’s top shows
QUEEN OF SCOTS After spending a childhood safely hidden away in a monastery, a teenage Mary Stuart (Adelaide Kane) arrives in France where she has been sent to secure Scotland’s...
View ArticleIt’s time to make paid surrogacy legal in New York
In 1984, a New Jersey woman named Mary Beth Whitehead agreed to be a surrogate mother for a childless couple, William and Betsy Stern. Whitehead’s own eggs were used and...
View Article‘Elementary,’ ‘Parenthood’ return with new episodes
Can’t take another rerun or marathon? Emerge from the TV coma with shows that are jumping into the new year with new episodes. “Elementary” (Thursday, 10 p.m., CBS) Natalie Dormer...
View ArticleEnjoy fine dining? Hire a sitter and leave the baby at home!
Parents who bring a bawling baby into a high-end restaurant are braindead — not only at Grant Achatz’s world-acclaimed Alinea in Chicago, where a wailing 8-month-old made diners miserable last...
View ArticleThe 8 most annoying kids on TV
Children should be seen and not heard — it is an age-old saying that seems to be on the minds of some TV viewers when it comes to series like...
View ArticleDon’t Miss: Season 3 premiere of HBO’s ‘Veep’
“Parenthood” (Thursday, 10 p.m., NBC) Crosby (Dax Shepard) finds himself in a tough housing situation and reaches out to Joel (Sam Jaeger) for help. Julia (Erika Christensen) musters up the...
View ArticleDon’t Miss: King Joffrey’s breakfast party; Election Day on ‘Scandal’
“Parenthood” (Thursday, 10 p.m., NBC) Haddie (Sarah Ramos) comes home for the summer, while Adam (Peter Krause) and Crosby (Dax Shepard) reminisce about their childhoods and also reenact some childish...
View ArticleCareer women are having ‘egg-freezing’ parties
Fashionable New York professional women gathered at a first-of-its-kind “egg-freezing party” this week — where they sipped champagne while learning how to scientifically put off motherhood until they...
View ArticleThe moms who moonlight as erotic fiction authors
When pharmacist Tali Alexander returns home to Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, every evening, she usually prepares dinner for her three children and helps with their homework. Around 9 p.m., finally alone...
View ArticleFacebook, Apple will now pay for employees to freeze their eggs
It’s a brave new workplace — Facebook and Apple will now pay for female employees to freeze their eggs, helping pregnancy pressures melt into the past. The tech firms are...
View ArticleThe top 10 make-you-cry moments from ‘Parenthood’
Get your Kleenex ready — the midseason finale of “Parenthood” airs Thursday night — and, hopefully, will answer lots of questions: Will Joel (Sam Jaeger) get Julia (Erika Christensen) back?...
View ArticleThis season’s sexiest, sauciest, most scandalous new TV shows
A new season of great shows starts now — so here’s our handy water cooler guide to all the buzz. Don’t go to work without it. Most controversial new character:...
View ArticleHow Monica Potter dissed Iggy Azalea
Looks like we can add another name to the long list of celebrities beefing with Iggy Azalea.
View Article‘Scandal’ and ‘Murder’ are back to rock our world this week
1. “Girls” Sunday, 9 p.m., HBO Adam (Adam Driver) has not called Hannah (Lena Dunham) in Iowa — not once! — and that makes her realize she has too much...
View ArticleIt’s a wrap Thursday for NBC’s ‘Parenthood’
“Parenthood” Thursday at 10 p.m. on NBC In the series finale of this tear-jerker drama, it’s wedding day for Sarah (Lauren Graham) and Hank (Ray Romano), while Amber (Mae Whitman)...
View ArticleWho will cry the most when ‘Parenthood’ ends?
There will be tears — oh, will there be tears. Tonight we reluctantly say goodbye to the Braverman family after six emotionally turbulent seasons of the NBC drama “Parenthood,” a...
View ArticleSkip the sharing, kids
‘Sometimes Kids Don’t Need To Share.” That was the title of a recent revelatory piece on Christianity Today’s Web site. What? How is this possible? How many times a day...
View ArticleHow Pinterest is driving moms crazy
Temper tantrums? Easy. Work-life balance? Handled. No, the enemy of mothers today is much more insidious and terrifying: Pinterest. A survey of 7,000 moms by the “Today” show found that...
View ArticleWhat’s trending as fall TV pilots take flight
With more than a dozen spinoffs (“Criminal Minds,” “Chicago Med”), movie adaptations (“Minority Report,” “Rush Hour”) and revivals (“Luther,” “The X-Files”) in various stages of development, it can...
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