When Michael B. Jordan Promises to Come Home, He Means It

We followed the megastar through the halls of his Newark, New Jersey alma mater in search of the man behind the mystique. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       When Michael B. Jordan Promises to Come Home, He Means It   Up ahead, there's a production moho (what industry folks call a mobile home) in the parking lot behind the school. The moho is hella conspicuous, which is a hazard of sorts, because megamoviestar Michael B. Jordan is inside it—with a team of people prepping him for his cover shoot—and the plan is to secret him around his old high school without the whole student body catching wind that he's in the building and going apeshit. Read More           Gordon Sondland Laid Out Just How Simple the Ukraine Scandal Really Is   ATLANTA—Let us now praise famous lawyering. In the middle of his wonderful, damning opening statement, Gordon Sondland, the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union and, at last, nobody's huckleberry any more, made the point that, yes, he was in the middle of the scheme to shake down the government of Ukraine, and he'd like to talk more about that, but a lot of the details are in the documents that the administration* won't release to the committee. It was a masterful flip of the script. Read More           Ex-Under Armour Execs Are Making the Best Jeans of 2019   In Partnership with Revtown   Revtown's jeans are the triple-threat: fashionable, comfortable, and affordable. Read More           The Running Shoe Experts at On Finally Made a Sneaker for Guys Like Me   Here's a thing that I didn't really understand until relatively recently: A real running shoe is not a sneaker. It is, quite specifically, a running shoe. To call it a sneaker is not exactly smiled upon. This, to me, seemed completely crazy. I love sneakers! It's a term of endearment! But, alas, that's not how dedicated runners—of which I am not one—feel about the matter. Read More           Michael B. Jordan Returns to Newark for a Surprise Visit   Returning to your alma mater years after you left can be a pretty emotional experience—returning years later as a legitimate movie star? That's a whole level of overwhelming that only a few can understand. For Esquire's 2020 Winter cover story, we took Michael B. Jordan back to where it all began—Newark Arts High School in Newark, NJ—to surprise the students. And as you can see in the video above, the experience was just as overwhelming for him as it seemed to be for the theater full of students surprised by his visit. Read More           LeVar Burton Says Boomers Left a 'Shitshow of Problems' the Reading Rainbow Generation Will Fix   For adults of a certain age, PBS' Reading Rainbow looms large as a foundational element of their childhoods--one that shaped them into lifelong readers. Yet it's not just the lasting influence of the show that lingers for those of us affectionately called "the Reading Rainbow generation"--it's host LeVar Burton himself, the actor turned literary shepherd who, week after week, took us to new worlds through the indelible power of the written word. As host and executive producer, Burton transported millions of burgeoning thinkers to the outer reaches of the imagination, using narration, interviews, and "field trips" to foster a deep, abiding love of reading. As one of those young readers, Burton's influence always felt seismic to me, somehow larger-than-life and yet deeply intimate--as if he were my friend, my teacher, talking to me and me alone. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2019 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019