Julie Vadnal

“Have you ever seen anything cuter in your life?” my friend squealed as we approached our 261-square-foot mini cabin in the shadow of Oregon’s Mount Hood. Our tiny house is more than tiny, it’s teeeeeny, like if you took a gingerbread house,…

As the resident food and wine expert on Netflix’s Queer Eye, Antoni Porowski knows his way around a kitchen — even if the Twitter trolls find his guacamole to be overly simplistic. (Since when was simple a bad thing?) Next month, Porowski will…

“I’m always excited to go to London,” musician Elle King said in a phone interview. “There’s a music scene there that I really, really love.” Her first trip to the city, when she was in her early 20s, was to meet with British songwriter Eg White,…

Nearly four years ago, cookbook author and founder of food industry database Equity at the Table, Julia Turshen moved from Brooklyn to Ulster County in upstate New York. The move was inspired by frequent vacations to the Catskills — including her…

The first time New Yorker Lauren Bush Lauren went to Detroit was a few years ago, on a trip with her husband and friends. “We had a great time being tourists,” she said in an email interview, explaining how the group jumped between the city’s shops,…

Actress and reigning Instagram Stories queen Busy Philipps has a lot going on right now. Not only is she gearing up for her late night talk show, Busy Tonight, which airs on E! this fall, she’s also going to release her hilarious (how could it not…

First thing’s first: Ronny Chieng wants to make sure you get the pronunciation right. “It’s Mel-BIN,” the actor and comedian said over the phone. “Think of Jason Bourne — and then don’t say that.” The Malaysian-born Daily Show senior correspondent,…

When actress Lana Condor wants to hide away from LA’s Hollywood scene, she retreats to Seattle, just 35 miles south of sleepy Whidbey Island, where she grew up. “Seattle is so fresh,” she said in a phone conversation. “The air is clean, and the…