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Lazy Dog Restaurants, known for its made-from- scratch food and drink using seasonally inspired ingredients, is leaning into comfort-food season with a new seasonal menu filled with familiar favorites, bold flavors and a few unexpected twists. Beginning October 7, guests can discover a lineup of new dishes, a new handcrafted TV Dinner, three new seasonal cocktails and two new non-alcoholic beverages, including a shareable cocktail for the whole crew to enjoy. “Fall is all abo

NEW YORK – Sept. 3, 2026 – BET today announced the return of SOUL TRAIN AWARDS, presented by Spotify and Toyota, airing Friday, Nov. 27 at 8:00 PM, ET/PT on BET and simulcast on CBS for the first time ever, along with BET HER, VH1, MTV2 and LOGO. Taped in the city where Don Cornelius launched the original “Soul Train” more than 50 years ago, the show will celebrate the artists, music and enduring legacy of “Soul Train” through a dynamic night of performances and special momen

Broadway Company of Operation Mincemeat. Photo by Matt Crockett OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL will play Broadway In Chicago’s CIBC Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.) for a limited two-week engagement, September 29 – October 11, on its North American leg of its World Tour. In OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL, it’s 1943, and the Allied Forces are on the ropes. Luckily, they’ve got a trick up their sleeve. Well, not up their sleeve, per se, but rather inside the pocket of a stole

Becky Robison is a writer and certified death doula living in Louisville, Kentucky. After her parents died, she created My Parents Are Dead: What Now?—a website documenting her journey through the legal, financial, and bureaucratic aftermath in order to help others do the same.