Joel Stein
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Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Interning in the Kitchen at Chez Maggy in Denver
What happens when a restaurant regular takes a turn behind the stove? → Read More
Crypto’s Crash Is Helping a Few Couples Rekindle Their Relationships
In the aftermath of the digital-asset mayhem, believers are working through what Bitcoin and Bored Ape obsessions did to intimacy. → Read More
How To Handle a Billion-Dollar Divorce
A guide for what to do when your perfect match flames out. → Read More
The Undead: Is Cancel Culture Finally Over?
Once-banished actors and artists are suddenly making a comeback. (Take a bow, Mel Gibson!) → Read More
How L.A. Got Hooked on Adderall
As America runs on Dunkin', Los Angeles runs on speed → Read More
Gen Z Has Arrived At the Office—And It's Freaking Everyone Out
The good news is that Zoomers aren’t nearly as entitled on the job as millennials. the bad news? They could really use a hug → Read More
Who's Panicked About Their Inheritance?
Inheritance anxiety surfaced recently when the late film producer Steve Bing disinherited his children, when Larry King’s handwritten will cut out his wife only two months after he filed for divorce. → Read More
The Screen Actors Guild presidential election is the ugliest contest of 2021
You can't have a civil election even when everyone running is a Hollywood liberal. → Read More
Ted Cruz wants to be a populist. But he can’t get it right.
You can't fake populism. Especially if you are Ted Cruz. → Read More
How a Chronically Extroverted WME Agent and His Daughter Raised Millions During Quarantine
Weekly Zoom sessions called Quarantunes have become a pandemic pastime for Hollywood's biggest celebrities and most famous musicians → Read More
Can You Be Too Rich to Be Canceled?
Money can solve plenty of problems, but is cancel culture one of them? → Read More
Men's Makeup Has Gone Mainstream, and Now I See Why
As companies from Chanel to CVS get into the men's makeup market, Joel Stein takes some concealers, CC creams, and blotting powders for a spin → Read More
During the Pandemic, Will Social Media Take a Toll on Our Mental Health?
As we spend more time gazing at our phones and monitoring our social feeds during the safer-at-home order, experts worry our mental health could suffer → Read More
No One Retires Anymore
How the American dream of golf and the golden years got turned on its head. And what that means for the rest of us. → Read More
The Day Cancel Culture Was Canceled
A journalist's tweet on the day Kobe died—and the fallout that followed—signaled that the era of blanket cancelation is over → Read More
Los Angeles is fighting its homeless problem, one giant planter at a time
A guided tour of what might be called “homeless prevention technology.” → Read More
Inside One of Stephanie Miller's Resistance Dinner Parties
It's all progressive fun and games until you alienate Rob Reiner → Read More
I Am Forming A New Political Party For Smug Elites Like Me
In the Intellectual Elite party, conservatives will sit at a table with liberals, saying grace over meals of cold-pressed juice. → Read More
Impeachment is an elitist trap
Elite maneuvering over impeachment will send the voters running into Trump’s arms. → Read More
Wanna See Something Scary? Step Inside a Haunted House for L.A.'s Aspirational Class
Forget zombies and vampires—the fears that plague L.A. creatives are truly terrifying → Read More