It's impossible to count the number of endless sunny days Rob Lowe and his friends boogie-boarded and bodysurfed and looked at girls and goofed off until the sun went down. He attended Santa Monica High School, ran around on Zuma Beach, and lived the kind of California life that hardly exists anymore. It was an era that has been fading for decades, he said, and that may have been finished off by the Palisades Fire, which started on January 7 and tore through homes and businesses with indiscriminate force. "I mourn everything in Malibu," the actor says. "There's very, very little, if anything, left." |
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Esquire tested. Dentist approved. |
| With a ton of news surrounding the next Marvel team-up flooding the Internet this week, let's run down everything we know about the film so far. |
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If the superhero stratosphere has anything resembling a sole leading actor, it's the one who plays Captain America. That's Anthony Mackie now. The forthcoming Captain America: Brave New World will kick off a critical new chapter of the MCU, which will culminate with two new Avengers films. Meaning: His life, sure as the stars and stripes on his new suit, is about to change. For Mackie, the achievement—top billing in a major studio blockbuster—feels like validation. His superpower is not that he's very good at what he does but that he's very good in anything he does, no matter the size of the role. Throughout his twenty-five-year-long career, he's been so consistent that audiences and awards bodies have taken him for granted. "Captain America is my Oscar," he says. "Because I've been overlooked so many times in my career." |
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People always ask me which model they should buy, and it's this one. |
| The actor and perfumer Francis Kurkdjian discuss the evolution of Dior Homme, the unlikely inspiration behind the new Parfum—and Pattinson's self-diagnosed scent troubles. |
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As much as we enjoyed returning to Lumon in the first two episodes of Severance season 2—Kier knows that it inspired many a fan theory—I'm sure you started to wonder exactly where the plot was heading. Episode 1 caught up with the Macrodata Refinement (MDR) crew in the aftermath of the season 1 finale, while episode 2 told us how the Overtime Contingency affected their Outies. Episode 3? Well, the final moments outright tell us this season's A plot: The Great Reintegration of Mark Scout. |
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 What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers |
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The Cynical Mind Can Come Up with Several Reasons Why Trump Wants to 'Clean Out' Gaza |
Ethnic cleansing always has been part of urban renewal, in one form or another. In related news, the president announced that he was reversing a policy of the previous administration and releasing 2,000-pound bombs to Israel. The cynical mind recalls that Dauphin Prince Jared Kushner long has had the hot eyeballs for Gaza as a possible resort/destination casino and that he has his Saudi windfall to make it happen. |
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The new-old president's now-rescinded (maybe, who knows?) executive order freezing federal spending this week threw local and state governments into chaos, especially regarding Medicaid—which was the point, I suppose. This puts Republican governors in a tough spot. They know the impact of this uncertainty on their constituency, but they also don't want to be seen as crossing El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago in public. And it's not just local governments that are being whacked; so are nonprofit organizations that work in communities all around the states. |
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His explanation for the drastic 180 he's pulled on reproductive freedom—and, it seems, on stem-cell research as well—was complete gibberish, as he repeated, over and over, that "every abortion is a tragedy." He denied having said some of the wilder things he was reported to have said, only to have the Democratic members of the committee bring out the receipts. Under questioning by Republican senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Kennedy evinced an abysmal ignorance of how Medicaid actually works. |
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth didn't wait long to hear His Master's Voice and snap to. The mission of the Department of Defense is to revenge itself against its commander-in-chief's pursued tormentors. We have just rolled out the first of the new Gerald R. Ford–class aircraft carriers. However, the DOD has set sail on the Pequod. |
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The latest in the family-fun game Sucker the Rubes comes straight out of the stalactite-ridden mind of our new-old president. I swear to God, I believe he thinks he ordered General Patton to march with him into the Sierra Nevada and turn a really big golden spigot. And he can sell T-shirts of himself turning the big golden spigot to all the aforementioned people, who are suddenly mystified by the price of eggs and the skyrocketing cost of Meemaw's insulin. And they can wear them to the next rally that will cost their little towns three times the town budget for security, for which they never will be repaired. |
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