Jennifer Stavros

My sister Jess was murdered by her husband in 2016.
I brought a photo of her holding my son the day she married her murderer to the movie theatre.
I felt like we were together again, watching the happy ending she never got.
Greta Gerwig's billion-dollar "Barbie" movie brought a lot of feelings of feminism and empowerment forward, but to some, like me, it also brought forward feelings of unexpected grief.
I wanted to share the movie with my sister. Instead, I watched it with a photo of her hol...

According to Mattel, a Barbie Dreamhouse, the bright pink doll house where the famous Barbie doll resides, is sold every two minutes. And since it started filming in 2022, the live action Barbie movie has kept the Internet and pop culture abuzz — with everyone wanting to incorporate a little bit of the Barbie dream into their own world: Barbie-themed fashions and Barbie-themed home designs are now in the public lexicon, and a real-life Barbie-styled Ken house will even be available to rent on...

A car going zero to 60 is nothing compared to an elevator soaring to the top floor of the third tallest building in the United States. Enjoy panoramic views 103 floors high from Skydeck Chicago in the Willis Tower by riding an elevator that makes the trip within 60 quick seconds.
I remember visiting as a child, and as an adult, I’ve enjoyed the nostalgia and beauty of my home city’s views with an equal amount of wonder.
This is the classic view of Chicago seen in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” s...

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Commonly known as a dating app for hookups and casual relationships, Tinder is one of the longest-standing dating apps in the world. It launched in 2012 and was later acquired by Match Group, which owns several other dating apps, such as Hinge, OKCupid, The League, and Plenty of Fish. I've used Tinder for years and can confidently say the...

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After going through a divorce, New Zealand–based Mia Lux found herself quickly tired of dating apps. So, she worked with her life coach, Lauren Zander, to turn her frustration into a solution. Enter: Lavette, an invite-only video dating platform that soft-launched in 2022. An online dater myself, I put LaVette to the test, to see how it c...

Licensed relationship and sex therapist, Nikquan Lewis, agrees, but says experiences can vary from person to person. “It has been my clinical experience that a lot of people utilize this specific app to gain meaningful connections,” she explains. “I've had clients meet their partners on this app and eventually get married. I've also had clients struggle on this app but that has a lot to do with today's dating pool in general.”

Hinge markets itself as the app that’s “designed to be deleted.” B...

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Dating in your 40s is considerably different from dating in your 20s or 30s. Or at least it has been for me in this first year.
Now that I’ve learned more than ever to be comfortable in my body and who I am, I’m not fumbling around in the dark trying to figure all that out on top of attempting to find my other person. And now that I’ve ma...

At a Glance
52.9% of U.S. adults survey respondents who have started a “sleep divorce” say it improved their sleep quality.1.4% of respondents have started a sleep divorce, or sleeping separately from their partner, and maintained it in the past year.Adults who have maintained a sleep divorce average 37 minutes of sleep more each night than when they shared a bed.25.7% of adults who slept separately from their partner ended up sharing a bed again.Adults who have recoupled sleep 10 minutes mor...

Travellers often talk about seeing the world, but it's time we learn to listen to it, too.

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On a rainy summer day, I took a train to the Swiss city of Saint-Maurice and trekked through the squelching mud to a medieval fortress perched high atop a cliff. After descending into a dark cavern and twisting through its dimly lit corridors, I finally arrived at the main viewpoint of the Grotte aux Fées (Cave of the Fairies): a plunging 77m waterfall that shoots from an underground limestone ledge i...

Medication and digital therapy options are remote and affordable but pricey.
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Cerebral offers users weekly online therapy sessions via phone or video calls, as well as easy access to their provider through email or messaging through its patient portal. We found providers to be high-quality and easy to talk to, but were disappoi...

Netflix is stepping outside its film and reality TV show endeavors to show it's got the gumption to give folks wings.
The Bay Area-based streaming giant posted a job opening for a flight attendant last week, which, like the budgets for some Netflix series, offered a stunning salary for potential applicants.
Per the now-removed job posting, a Netflix flight attendant is projected to make between $60,000 and $385,000 a year. The description is still visible on a Google-hosted job board, which s...

As a kid who once upon another life wanted so much to be an actor someday, I valued award shows as being the pinnacle of achievement. When I moved to Los Angeles and made friends like Jason Kisvardy, who has since worked as production designer for successful movies such as Everything Everywhere All at Once, this stacked even more. Award shows are supposed to be filled with pride, joy, and praise for the entirety of the filmmaking process.
As an adult who lost her sister to murder, film -- and...

On Tuesday, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved the use of police robotics that can be used to kill. The robots — which, according to a spokesperson, could be used to “incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspects who pose a risk of loss of life” and could have explosives attached to them during missions — are intended for emergency situations.
San Francisco police are not the first to flirt with such a techno-dystopian future. In 2020, the NYPD began using a robo...

Once upon an ocean blue in 1492, the “great” Italian Christopher Columbus sailed across the waters and discovered America.
It’s the foundation of so much of the start of liberties that we patriots are supposed to celebrate. It’s what’s been taught in schools for decades – or at least it was when I was a kid back in the 80s and 90s. Unfortunately, as lessons learned in my adulthood would show, despite the move toward an “understanding” that Columbus did NOT, in fact, discover America, the fabl...

California is making records again with its record-breaking heatwave this week. Californians spent their Labor Day weekend contending with extreme heat warnings. The Bay Area, which is notoriously known for its cold weather summers, is having its hottest recorded temperature.
While folks contend with these soaring temperatures, it’s important to recongize their importance in relation to a couple of other hot areas of California (and other world-shared) discussion: housing and homeless matters...