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As a college student, Claudia Lyon didn’t know what a casting director was, let alone that one day she would be the head of casting at one of the largest networks in the country. Lyon grew up in New York, navigating her childhood in a family with roots in Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago and South

A disturbing pattern led Gloria Calderón Kellett to reimagine her role in Hollywood and become one of the leading voices calling for improved Latino representation. Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Calderón Kellett would come home from school and watch “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” while her grandmother would sew

Kase Peña wants to make sure the facts are clear so that Bronx historians don’t come after her: Though her heart belongs to the Bronx, it’s a little more complicated than that. “I was born in Manhattan. My parents are from the Dominican Republic. I lived the first nine years of my life in Manhattan,

Alan Luna makes his living putting people on the big and small screens, but growing up, he never saw someone who looked like his mother — a woman of indigenous Mexican descent who is one of the most beautiful and giving people he knows, her son says — on either. As a casting director, people

You can thank Netflix executive Carolina Garcia for helping bring shows like “Stranger Things” and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” to the streaming screen, but everyone else can thank Jack Bauer for Carolina Garcia. Born in Argentina and raised in Claremont, California, Garcia was always a natural performer. She started dancing when she was 4 years

Lorde is out here aiming for the song of the summer. The video for her new single “Solar Power” has dropped and it has everything you need to make it a warm weather jam, from the singer frolicking dressed in yellow on the beach with others to the lyrics that reference a hot time. “Can’t

If you were speculating that there was a big thing behind the split of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, you were wrong. Turns out it was the little things, like Kardashian not having someone to work out with. That’s just one of the things we learned from the final episode of “Keeping Up With the

Two guests aboard the first major sea cruise hosting Americans since the pandemic halted the industry have tested positive for Covid-19 in required end-of-cruise testing, the cruise line said Thursday. The two guests, who shared a stateroom on the seven-day Celebrity Millennium cruise from St. Maarten, are asymptomatic, in isolation and being monitored by a

Two guests aboard the Celebrity Millennium tested positive for Covid-19 in required end-of-cruise testing, the cruise line said in a Thursday news release. Celebrity Millennium — the first major cruise ship allowing American passengers since the pandemic forced a pause on the industry — set sail on Saturday. The two positive guests, which shared a

Two passengers on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean have tested positive for Covid-19. The pair were traveling on the MSC Seaside cruise ship and disembarked with their families in Syracuse, Sicily, on Tuesday, MSC told CNN on Wednesday. The two passengers were asymptomatic. The cruise had previously docked in Malta but the passengers were

In June 2020, the people of Britain put their differences aside to condemn a brazen act of aggression against their country. An American expat known only as “Michelle” had posted an instructional TikTok on how to make “British tea.” A collective groan could be heard from Land’s End to John O’Groats, as Michelle and her

Welcome new generation of rich kids for us to obsess about. HBO Max (which shares CNN’s parent company) has released a trailer for the “Gossip Girl” reboot. The teen drama ran on The CW from 2007 to 2012 and helped make big stars of some of the cast, including Blake Lively and Penn Badgley. The

United Airlines has announced it will purchase up to 50 Boom Overture supersonic jets for commercial use by 2029, heralding the return of supersonic passenger flights nearly 20 years after the Concorde was decommissioned. Supersonic planes halve the time it takes to fly from New York to London, from seven hours down to 3.5 hours,

This past year most of us haven’t strayed far from the street where we live, what with Covid-19 lockdowns, stay-at-home orders and travel bans. But whether you’re daydreaming about international travel, or just excited to branch out of your neighborhood into the city center, Time Out has some inspiration fodder ready. The global media brand