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By Oscar Holland, CNN Novels are an endangered art form. In the early 1990s, more than 60% of American adults finished at least one book a year; today, fewer than half do. Gen Z often takes the heat for this decline, but we’re all to blame — including me, a time-poor millennial with two young

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Macao, China (CNN) — Long before Tex-Mex and VietCajun, there was Macanese, the world’s first-ever fusion food. Macao was Asia’s first European colony. A pair of islands in southern China’s Pearl River Delta, just across the water from Hong Kong, this small colony became an important shipping and trading center. The

By Leah Dolan, CNN Two months after causing public outcry for planning a 2027 Met Gala exhibit centered on John Galliano, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced a new theme: Dressing down. Next May, “ExtraOrdinary: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday” will explore the artistic craft behind the kind of mundane garments we

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Renae Plant and her husband Livinio Stuyck were about to become restaurant investors. A local pizza place in their Los Angeles neighborhood had approached the couple, offering them the opportunity to own a small stake. It made sense: Plant and Stuyck had a nest egg already saved and some

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — John Frieda, the celebrity hairstylist whose eponymous product range — its beloved Frizz Ease serum, especially — proved a commercial sensation, has died aged 75. The British entrepreneur, who counted Madonna and Princess Diana among his clients, died “peacefully” and “surrounded by his family,” according to a statement posted

By Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — The best restaurant in the world this year is Asador Etxebarri, an eatery in Atxondo, Spain, that’s nestled in the Basque region and which has become a revered destination restaurant known for a revelatory grilling technique. That’s according to The 50, which announced its global list of The 50