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Gabbi Shaw is a lifestyle reporter at Business Insider based in New York City. She’s also great at pop culture trivia.

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I’ve been a lifestyle reporter at Business Insider since May 2018. What does that mean? It means I’ve been covering anything and everything from movies to reality television to real estate to fast-food taste tests to retail store tours to first-person travel stories. I’m a jack-of-every-single-trade.

"If we're kind and polite, the world will be right."

— Paddington Bear

Some of my recent favorites...

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Forget actors. Directors are Hollywood's new movie stars.

If you've spent any time online lately — or, frankly, if you've been a person living in the world — you've probably heard some version of: "There's a new Christopher Nolan movie out that's supposed to be nuts. We should go see that."

Despite a cast that includes Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong'o, and Robert Pattinson, that's how "The Odyssey" is being marketed: the latest film from Christopher Nolan.

As superhero franchises lose some of their box-office dominance...
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See inside Coe Hall, a 65-room mansion built by a Gilded Age businessman who was booked on the Titanic's return voyage

In the village of Upper Brookville on Long Island, New York, you can step back 100 years. All you need to do is enter the Planting Fields Arboretum, a 409-acre state park that houses an expansive mansion, multiple greenhouses, gardens, and a tea house straight out of a fairy tale.

The mansion, Coe Hall, was built by William Robertson Coe, an executive who succeeded in the insurance and railroad businesses, and his wife, Mai Rogers, an heiress to a fortune built on Standard Oil money. In fact, C...
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I tried Shake Shack's new Clubhouse Pimento Cheese menu. It puts a fun spin on a classic Masters snack.

Little did I know that when I walked into the Shake Shack Innovation Kitchen on a March afternoon, I'd be walking out with a new favorite food: pimento cheese.

As a lifelong New Yorker (with a brief interlude in New Orleans, where I somehow missed pimento cheese in favor of other Southern staples), I don't have much experience with this spread (or dip), which is traditionally made with cheese, mayonnaise, and pimento peppers.

However, as I learned during my visit to try Shake Shake's new Clubh...
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'Bridgerton' showrunner Jess Brownell says season 4 has 'incredibly subtle clues' regarding the new Lady Whistledown

Don't worry: The "Bridgerton" writers know who the new Lady Whistledown is. A "Dan is Gossip Girl" situation, this is not.

Ahead of the release of the last batch of episodes of "Bridgerton" season four, Business Insider spoke with showrunner Jess Brownell, who assured us that the writers have a plan for one of the biggest twists of this season — Penelope Bridgerton (née Featherington) is Lady Whistledown no more.

Of course, you can't keep Julie Andrews down for long. After Penelope told Queen...
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I tried matcha lattes from Starbucks, Dunkin', and Tim Hortons. One was bitter, one was too milky, and one was just right.

Move over iced coffee — my preferred drink for quenching my thirst on a hot day is iced matcha.

Matcha, a type of powdered green tea, has steadily been gaining popularity in the West after being a staple in Japan for centuries. In fact, it's become so popular so quickly on TikTok that the country has experienced shortages.

With the rise of matcha and its health benefits (it's high in antioxidants, making it a superfood, and can bolster immunity and help with inflammation), it's no wonder that...
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A 23-year-old golfer in the Masters has the last words his dad ever wrote tattooed on his arm

Sam Bennett, a 23-year-old amateur golfer who plays at Texas A&M University, is competing in this year's Masters, and he's carrying an important piece of advice from his late father with him.

Bennett has the last words his dad ever wrote tattooed on his forearm: "Don't wait to do something."

His father died in June 2021 due to early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

In an April 2023 interview, Bennett told the Golf Channel that he and his mom were gardening in June 2020 when his dad, Mark, walked ov...
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All 20 Disney live-action remakes ranked from tolerable to downright unwatchable

Remaking animated films or TV shows in live-action is becoming more frequent in Hollywood — just look at shows like "Avatar: The Last Airbender," "One Piece," and "Cowboy Bebop."

But the studio that has done this most successfully — and most frequently — is Disney. There have been 20 live-action remakes or reimaginings of its classic animated films, give or take a few additional sequels.

While not all of them have been well-reviewed — and, arguably, they're mediocre at best — most of these mov...
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There's only one historical-romance show you need to be watching — and it's not 'Bridgerton'

If you, like many others, were feeling a bit let down by the highly anticipated third season of Netflix's streaming sensation "Bridgerton," we have the show for you.All eight episodes of "My Lady Jane" dropped on Prime Video on June 27. Since then, the show's following has only grown.The response from critics and audiences has been overwhelmingly positive — every day since the show's premiere, outlets such as Slate, Forbes, and Variety have published glowing reviews. It is holding steady in the...