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It’s been a great year for movies. From the latest Spider-Man to the epic The Odyssey to quirkier offerings like Backrooms and The End of Oak Street , 2026 has had a little something for everyone. But even a terrible movie can be salvaged when the popcorn is hot, buttered and all mine. (What can I say? I like having my small popcorn to myself.) Raise your hand if you pick your movie theater based on the popcorn. Mine’s up. Just last weekend, I headed to a small art theater in the middle of the morning just so I could sample the offerings at the concession stand. The flick I went to see, Matthew McConaughey’s The Rivals of Amziah King , wasn’t at my local Alamo Drafthouse (which has awesome popcorn, by the way), and I wasn’t in the mood for the popcorn at the mall. Yes, popcorn can make or break a movie, but it hasn’t always been this way. In fact, popcorn wasn’t even sold at the movies in the early days. Say what? Movies without popcorn? To f...

It’s the news no one wanted to hear but we were all bracing for: Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. The brash blond songwriter from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee has been a bright light in our lives ever since she released her first song back in 1966, and we will miss her. I fell in love with Dolly in 9 to 5 , the groundbreaking 1980 movie that not only showcased her innovative musical talent (she played the “typewriter” on her fingernails) but also her comedy and acting chops. My brother and I still quote the movie to each other as a running gag, and I named my barrel-chested blond dog Dolly Parton, which never fails to get a laugh at the vet or dog park. No doubt you also have many memories of Dolly Parton and her infectious personality and incredible talents. While we process this devastating news, which somehow comes as a huge shock even as we worried over the last year or so about her health , let’s take a moment to grieve with her family, who annou...

My friend Nic is so Halloween-obsessed that she has two entire rooms in her basement dedicated to storing her Halloween decor. While most people have guest rooms for human guests, hers host six (yes, six ) of those 12-foot-tall giant Skellys. They’re also stuffed with more than 50 human-sized skeletons, a handful of dog and cat skeletons, flashing lights, noise machines and even a Christmas-sleigh tableau recreated with—you guessed it—skeleton reindeer. So when she starts planning Oct. 31’s festivities in June, I just nod and hand her some candy corn. As for me, I’m on the opposite side of the spectrum: I’m a Halloween grinch. I really don’t decorate unless you count the orange flickering light bulbs I installed near my garage seven years ago and was too lazy to swap back out for real ones. But it goes beyond laziness. To be honest, I just don’t like Halloween. Little kids in costumes ? Perfect, let’s do that every day. It’s ev...

Years ago, I worked for a state water quality agency. I’d drive around the back roads of Oklahoma hauling a big boat or dangle off a highway bridge collecting water samples—all while massive logging trucks (and plenty of speeding cars ) zipped by in a cloud of dust. It was nerve-racking, but I never got in an accident. One of my co-workers wasn’t so lucky. He was alone, like I often was. He hit a deer, then a tree. Luckily, he wasn’t injured, but he had no way to call for help. So he walked. For hours. Today, he’d whip out his phone and call someone—but what if he was injured and couldn’t? What if you got in a car wreck and couldn’t reach your phone? Well, it turns out your iPhone has a way to help even without your input. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there were more than 6 million nonfatal accidents in 2024, the most recent data available, and more than 1.6 million wrecks that resulted in injur...

After six years in the States, Harry and Meghan are hitting the road and moving back to England. And they’re doing it soon. So what happens to that big pile of bricks they’ve been living in out in Montecito? The couple bought the place in 2020 after stints in Vancouver and Los Angeles, and from the pictures and clips we’ve seen, it’s something. It’s also expensive. Montecito, California, is an unincorporated paradise tucked between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean along California’s Central Coast. Oprah Winfrey lives there. So does Rob Lowe. The views are stunning. And now that Harry and Meghan are leaving, their home will reportedly sit empty. How much is that going to set them back? Will they need to sell? Take on renters? Ahead, I’ll break down the insane amount of money Harry and Meghan will have to spend just to keep the lights on in their Montecito mansion. Read on for the details. Get  Reader’s Digest ’s...