Macaulay Culkin Had a Kid

This is not a story about child actors or shoes dropping or fame or any of that. It's a story about a family. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song Announce the Birth of Their First Child, Dakota   And now, some joy: Last week, Macaulay Culkin and his partner, Brenda Song, became the elated parents of a healthy baby. The couple met on a movie set in Thailand a few years ago—for Changeland, a funny, moving story about friendship (directed by Culkin's old friend Seth Green). They moved in together, to a charming house, and Culkin painted a yellow brick road leading to the front door. They wear matching pajamas. Song bakes bread—she was baking bread long before the pandemic. They have animals: three cats (the youngest is one he got her for Christmas 2019, named Santa), a few fish, a Shiba Inu, and a blue-headed pionus, which is a parrot. Now all of that recedes into the blurry background, as it does when you have a child. Their private universe has a new center, a son: Dakota Song Culkin, born Monday, April 5 at 1:10 p.m., in Los Angeles, weighing 6 pounds, 14 ounces. Song is healthy. Read More           15 Cuban Collar Shirts To Keep You Cool All Summer Long (In More Ways Than One)   Here's the first item on your summer shopping list: the Cuban-collar shirt. While the silhouette is nothing new, its reputation until recently was more "golf dad sporting a hula-dancer print on the Atlantic City boardwalk" and less "summer wardrobe must-have." Thankfully the shirt has had a stylish resurgence in recent years, and it's all I want to wear any time the mercury climbs above 80°F. This summer, opt for big, bold patterns, asymmetrical designs, and lean into embroidery, pockets, and textured fabrics inspired by the OG guayabera. Here are our picks to get your wardrobe one step closer to peak summertime cool. Read More           The 26 Jeans Brands Every Denim Fan Needs to Know   The thing about finding the perfect pair of jeans isn't that it's impossible. Thankfully, a little knowledge goes a long way. And right now, in the midst of your incipient denim debacle, some of the most useful knowledge you can get your hands on has as much to do with the product as the players. In other words: If you start by figuring out what jeans brands are best suited to your needs, you're starting out right. Are you a designer denim guy, or would you rather opt for one of the old reliable brands? Do you care if your denim comes from a shuttle loom or a projectile loom? We've pulled together a list of the 25 best jeans brands out there, ranging from your mass-market standbys to your hyper-niche specialists, with a little of everything in between for good measure. So whether you're in the market for Carhartt or Levi's, Visvim or Fear of God—and by the way, have you heard of Glenn's Denim, because you should have—we've got you covered. Happy hunting. Read More           The 15 Best Desks For Very Small Spaces   For some of us, specifically the tiny house and cramped apartment dwellers of the world, a standard desk just isn't going to work. If it fits at all, it's taking up the scant free space in the floor plan. But working from home is that much harder without one. So here are 15 small desks that get creative with space usage—hanging from walls, gripping to windows, disappearing when the day is done. Get a feel for the square footage you do have, and then choose one that'll not only work, but make your work feel a little less taxing. And finally, a word for the wise: Measure, do not eyeball. Never eyeball. Your eyeball is, unless highly trained in the art of guess-measuring, wrong. Read More           Another Shooting, Another Official Explanation That's Starting to Stink   While we're on the subject of what the late Marvin Gaye sussed out as "trigger-happy policin" all the way back in 1971, the New York Times did a long, deep dive into a semi-famous shooting and the investigation thereof. Last September, U.S, Marshals shot and killed an activist named Michael Reinoehl in the aftermath of unrest in Seattle over police violence. Reinoehl was being sought in connection with the shooting death of a Patriot Prayer activist named Aaron Danielson. Reinoehl fled and was cornered in the town of Lacey, Washington, where he was shot. The official story is that he fired on law-enforcement officers. A local investigation recently cleared the officers on that basis. However, as the Times reports, that conclusion and some of the physical evidence have yet to be introduced to each other. Read More           60 Minutes Peeked into Prince's Vault and Discovered a Beautiful Mess   Death is not an end, but a beginning. Prince Rogers Nelson believed that in his bones. So it was that the night Prince died, a new era, the era of the vault, began. By the time Prince was 40, he had written and recorded more songs than any artist could possibly release in a lifetime. Material, it seems, is the musical genius's burden. To house all of his unreleased recordings, Prince constructed a vault in the basement of his Paisley Park complex in the suburbs of Minneapolis. Legend has it that as many as 8,000 songs are stored in the vault. On Sunday night's episode of 60 Minutes, correspondent Jon Wortheim dug into the vault's status. The segment revealed that in its current state, Prince's vault is more of a minefield than a treasure chest. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2021 Hearst Communications Inc. 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