Gretchen

Gretchen Parlato’s previous album, 2021’s Flor, saw her widely acclaimed as the outstanding jazz voice of the times. After several years when her career was put on hold for motherhood, Flor was a remarkable comeback, an alluring mix of Brazilian samba and chamber cello, with Parlato’s featherlight vocals skipping between Bach and Bowie’s posthumous No Plan. Lean In is less musically adventurous but equally winning, a partnership with the well-travelled Benin guitarist Lionel Loueke, best known for his work with Herbie…

It's pretty wild to realize that Mean Girls will be celebrating its 20th anniversary next year, and more than anything that's a testament to its massive fanbase. The teen comedy starring Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, and Lacey Chabert feels as popular today as it did when it was first released in theaters back in 2004. Of course, a natural extension of this love is a constant demand for "more," and Chabert recently expressed her thoughts about both a sequel and where Gretchen might be now that she's in…

Gretchen Morgenson / NBC News: A look at North Dimension, a little-known Alameda Research subsidiary, where the SEC says FTX told customers to wire funds to trade without disclosing the ties — Among the 130 or so companies in Sam Bankman-Fried's sprawling crypto empire, North Dimension Inc. assumed a low profile. Gretchen Morgenson / NBC News: A look at North Dimension, a little-known Alameda Research subsidiary, where the SEC says FTX told customers to wire funds to trade without disclosing the…

Image: Amazon StudiosHigh school can be hell even without any supernatural interference. But what happens when an actual demon invades and threatens even the most devoted of teenage alliances? My Best Friend’s Exorcism takes us through this unholy scenario, with a charming cast that almost makes up for its overly familiar story.Abby (Elsie Fisher of Eighth Grade, Castle Rock, and Netflix’s grim Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and Gretchen (Amiah Miller of The Water Man and War for the Planet of the Apes) are such besties that…