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Travel + Leisure
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Travel + Leisure
12 Crisp, Comfy White T-shirts That'll Work Overtime in Your Travel Wardrobe—From $8
What do Bob Belcher, Hank Hill, and Carmy Berzatto all have in common? Besides being the male leads of their respective hit television series, these characters know the value of owning a decent plain white T-shirt. Comfy, classic, and reliable, a quality, well-fitting white tee can act like a building block for outfits, since they're easy to pair with the clothes you already own. That's why white T-shirts are such a genius hack for traveling light, too—they can be used for hundreds of outfit combinations while taking up negligible space in your carry-on luggage. If you're looking for a quality white T-shirt this season, look no further: We've rounded up 12 options that have all earned high marks from shoppers for quality, comfort, and overall fit. From fitted, feminine V-neck cuts to boxy, perfectly oversized silhouettes, this list of white T-shirts has an option for everyone—all for $25 or less. Even if the name Comfort Colors doesn't ring a bell for you, chances are, you've encountered at least one Comfort Colors T-shirt at some point in your lifetime. This brand skyrocketed in popularity back in the '90s and early '00s for creating high-quality T-shirts that are constructed from 100-percent ring-spun cotton that's unbelievably soft but incredibly durable. Nearly 20,000 Amazon shoppers have deemed this classic crew-neck T-shirt worthy of a perfect five-star rating. 'This will be your new favorite T-shirt,' wrote one reviewer, noting their approval of the softness, sizing, and quality. 'I will be purchasing more—you won't find a better garment at this price point!' This Quince men's tee is made with an organic cotton jersey fabric that's midweight, making it an easy layering piece for all four seasons. Pre-washed to reduce shrinkage and provide a softer feel, this plain crewneck T-shirt has an elevated appeal that 'will turn heads,' according to one five-star reviewer. 'I cannot say enough about the quality and value of this Slub Tee. This is what the 'high-enders' wear on their summer holidays in the Caribbean.' Old Navy is unparalleled when it comes to creating classic, wear-everywhere closet staples, and this white T-shirt is no exception. Made with 100 percent cotton, this T-shirt has a comfortable crew neck, relaxed fit, and below-waist hem that can be tucked into trousers or worn over shorts. Lightweight, versatile, and on sale for $8, this tee is the 'best basic,' according to reviewers. We were thrilled to see that this cute, comfy J. Crew essential tee was on sale—and for 63 percent off, no less. This elevated cotton basic has short cap sleeves and a slim cut that's 'fitted enough to be flattering but not clingy at all,' according to one five-star reviewer. Pair it with statement jewelry and a satin skirt for a date night-approved ensemble, or throw it on over your go-to denim cutoffs: This tee will look great no matter the occasion. This Gap T-shirt, on sale for $14, is made with a lightweight, organic cotton jersey fabric that's been pre-washed for a super soft, lived-in texture. It has a classic, straight fit that reviewers say isn't too fitted, yet not too oversized. 'They're not too long or cropped,' wrote one happy shopper, who shared that they've returned to buy more styles. 'They fit slightly roomy but not sloppy.' If plain white isn't your speed, check out the 24 other colors and patterns—each on sale up to 40 percent off. $22 at If you have a hard time finding a plain white T-shirt that fits just right, check out this $22 option from Fresh Clean Threads. This classic crewneck tee comes in three lengths, is carried up to a size 4XL, and is made from a 60/40 cotton-polyester blend that provides stretch. Thousands of shoppers gave it shoutouts in the review section for the fit and feel, with many commenting on the 'flattering' cut that highlights the chest and arms but doesn't cling to the midsection. $35 $17 at We love Madewell's selection of high-quality wardrobe essentials, and this 100 percent cotton T-shirt is no exception. On sale for $17 at Nordstrom Rack, this tee has a V-neck that's not too short nor deep, and is made with a lightweight, whisper-soft cotton that provides a draped, lived-in appearance. Reviewers say that the thinner fabric feels breezy during the summer and is easy to layer during the cooler months. Soft? Check. Stretchy? Check. Wrinkle-resistant? Check. This 50/50 cotton-modal blend tee from Quince checks all of our boxes for reliable travel staples. This tee has a wide scoop neckline and fitted short sleeves that give it a more feminine appeal, in contrast to some of the other plain crew-neck T-shirts on this list. This Uniqlo tee looks like a plain cotton T-shirt, but it's actually made with a quick-drying polyester-cotton blend fabric that'll keep you cool and comfortable on sweltering days. The boxy, open short sleeves and side slits on the hem also help to promote air flow. All of these qualities, along with its versatility, make it the 'best summer shirt,' according to one five-star reviewer. If you've been wanting to try the square-neck trend for yourself, check out this highly-rated Trendy Queen T-shirt from Amazon. Unlike many of the shirts featured on this list, this top isn't made from cotton. Rather, it's constructed with a stretchy, figure-hugging polyester-spandex material that reviewers say has a snatching effect on the waist. And despite being listed at just $10, plenty of shoppers share that the material is plenty thick and not see-through. This lightweight Aerie shirt has a vintage-inspired silhouette that can easily be dressed up or down with the right accessories. 'This is the perfect everyday tee,' wrote one five-star reviewer, adding that they love the slightly loose fit. Tagless and made with 100 percent cotton, this effortless T-shirt is on sale right now for under $20. Don't let the modest price tag fool you—this H&M top is worth its weight in gold. Made with 100 percent cotton jersey fabric, this short-sleeved white T-shirt has a round neckline with a thick, flat band that, along with the fitted silhouette, gives it a timeless look. Available in 13 colors and carried up to a size 3XL, this $8 tee is a travel staple you'll want to wear again and again. Love a great deal? Sign up for our T+L Recommends newsletter and we'll send you our favorite travel products each week.
ABC News
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Dishing on The Bear and the PM's musical taste
TV's favourite tormented chef, Carmy Berzatto, and his crew of lovable but dysfunctional chefs are back on your screens with season 4 of FX's The Bear. Hannah and Bev talk through whether this new season turns the page on their frustrations with season 3, and what they'd like to see on the menu for season 5, which has already been confirmed. And who's on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's triple j Hottest 100 of Australian songs ballot? Or maybe more importantly, who isn't? This ep contains minor spoilers for The Bear, s4. Get in touch: Share your pop culture takes! Write or send a voice note to stopeverything@ Show notes: Hottest 100 of Australian songs:
South China Morning Post
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
The Bear actress Liza Colón-Zayas on learning to play a chef and dealing with fame
When viewers first meet Tina Marrero, Liza Colón-Zayas' character on The Bear, she has an icy front – reluctant to adapt to the ways of head chef Carmen 'Carmy' Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), who is trying to breathe new, more organised life into his family's restaurant, The Original Beef of Chicagoland. It is mayhem, exacerbated by some of the long-time staff's unwillingness to see their own potential. But soon, Tina starts paying attention to the good that can come from being open to change. 'I was learning who she was in real time, so I trusted enough that Tina would be imbued with the humanity, with the rationale – it was a matter of me trusting what's on the page,' says Colón-Zayas. 'I try not to judge the characters – and in this world where it's so easy to want to shut down because it's dangerous, the changes that are coming with making people expendable are real in so many communities. 'So I'm glad [Tina] wasn't sanitised and sugar-coated and that we could see like … if we just invest in the people that we traditionally overlook, it could be beneficial for all of us.' Liza Colón-Zayas in a still from Season 3 of The Bear. Photo: TNS Colón-Zayas understands Tina personally, having had similar experiences of 'feeling unwanted' throughout her decades-long acting career. Like Tina, Colón-Zayas has also experienced a reinvention of sorts.
Miami Herald
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Mary McNamara: By taming its chaos, ‘The Bear' bravely shows us what addiction recovery looks like
In the beginning there was chaos. Three years ago, FX's "The Bear" splattered across our screens and made it impossible to look away. The yelling; the cursing; the gravy-slopping, bowl-clattering, grease-slick, jerry-rigged anxious sweaty mess of the Chicago sandwich shop the Beef and the wildly dysfunctional group of people who worked there, including elite chef Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), who inherited the Beef from his dead-by-suicide beloved brother Mikey (Jon Bernthal), wowed critics and raised the culture's collective cortisol count to eye-twitching levels. Critics used terms like "stress bomb" and "adrenaline shot"; current and former restaurant workers described symptoms not unlike those of PTSD, and viewers ate it all up with a spoon. Season 2, in which Carmy follows through on his plan to turn the Beef into a fine-dining establishment, only increased the anxiety level. With real money on the table (courtesy of Carmy's uncle Jimmy, played by Oliver Platt), along with the hopes, dreams and professional futures of the staff, including Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), Marcus (Lionel Boyce), Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas), Sugar (Abby Elliott) and, of course, Cousin Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), stakes were cranked to do-or-die. When the episode "Fishes," a stomach-clenching holiday buffet of trauma, revealed the twisted roots of a family forged by alcoholism - Carmy's mother Donna (Jamie Lee Curtis) - and abandonment - Carmy's father - viewers could not get enough. This being television, we knew that all the wild dysfunction would inevitably coalesce into triumph - you cannot achieve greatness without driving yourself and everyone else crazy first, right? When, at the end of Season 2, the Bear somehow managed to have a successful opening night, despite Carmy locking himself in a refrigerator and having a full-on existential crisis, our deep attachment to "yes chef" pandemonium appeared vindicated. Fistfuls of Emmys and dopamine cocktails all around. Except being able to open is a rather low bar for success, even in the restaurant business. Carmy is, for all his talent, an utter mess, and creator Christopher Storer is not, as it turns out, interested in celebrating the time-honored, and frankly toxic, notion that madness is a necessary part of genius - to the apparent dismay of many viewers. When, in Season 3, Storer and his writers opted to slow things down a bit, to pull each character aside and unsnarl the welter of emotions that fueled the Bear's kitchen, some viewers were disappointed. Which, having become dependent on the show's stress-bomb energy, they expressed with outrage. "The Bear" had lost its edge, was getting dull, boring, repetitive and reliant on stunt-casting; it should have ended with Season 2 or, better yet, become a movie. Thus far, the reaction to Season 4 has run the gamut - where some condemn what they consider continuing stagnation, others cheer a return to form. Which is kind of hilarious as this opens with the staff of the Bear reeling from an equally mixed review of the restaurant from the Chicago Tribune. (Shout out to the notion that a newspaper review still has make-or-break influence, though the Bear's lack of a social media awareness has long been worrisome). Turns out that Carmy's obsessive determination to change the menu daily, and keep his staff on perpetual tenterhooks, was perceived as disruptive, but not in a good way. "They didn't like the vibe," he tells Syd in a morning-after debrief. "They didn't like the chaos," she replies. "You think I like chaos?" he asks. "I think you think you need it to be talented," she says, adding, "You would be just as good, you would be great … without this need for, like, mess." Coming early in Episode 1, Syd's message is a bit on the nose, but addiction does not respond to subtlety, and "The Bear" is, as I have written before, all about the perils and long-range damage of addiction. That includes Donna's to alcohol, Mikey's to painkillers, Carmy's to a self-flagellating notion of perfection and, perhaps, the modern TV audience's to cortisol. As Season 4 plays out, with its emphasis on introspection and real connection, viewers might consider why "addictive" has become the highest form of compliment in television. It's such a sneaky bastard, addiction, happy to hijack your brain chemistry in any way it can. Our collective attention span isn't what it used to be and the adrenaline rush unleashed by crisis, real or observed, can create a desire to keep replicating it. Even on broadcast and cable television, most dysfunctional family series take a one-step-forward-two-steps-back approach to their characters' emotional growth. The mess is what viewers come for, after all. Particularly in comedy, we want to see our characters get into jams for the pleasure of watching them wildly flail about trying to get out of them. Early seasons of "The Bear" took that desire to a whole new level. But having amped up the craziness and the stakes, Storer now appears to be more interested in exploring why so many people believe that an ever-roiling crucible is necessary to achieve greatness. And he is willing to dismantle some of the very things that made his show a big hit to do it. Frankly, that's as edgy as it gets, especially in streaming, which increasingly uses episodic cliffhangers to speed up a series' completion rate - nothing fuels a binge watch like a jacked up heart rate. Like Carmy, Storer doesn't appear content with resting on his laurels; he's willing to take counterintuitive risks. As an attempt to actually show both the necessity and difficulty of recovery, in a micro- and meta- sense, "The Bear" is an experiment that defies comparison. At the beginning of this season, Uncle Jimmy puts a literal clock on how long the Bear has before, short of a miracle, he will have to pull the plug. Carmy, still addicted to drama, claims they will still get a Michelin star, despite evidence to the contrary, which will solve everything. (Spoiler: A gun introduced in the first act must go off in the third is one of many tropes "The Bear" upends.) The rest of the staff, mercifully, takes a more pragmatic approach. Richie, having become the unexpected sensei of the Bear (and the show), does the most sensible thing - he asks for help from the crackerjack staff of chef Terry's (Olivia Colman) now defunct Ever. Watching chef Jessica (Sarah Ramos) whip the nightly schedule into shape only underlines the absurdity, and damage, of the auteur theory of anything - greatness is never a solitary achievement. As Carmy loosens his grip, other outsiders pitch in - Luca (Will Poulter) shows up from Copenhagen to help Marcus and also winds up aiding Tina; Ebraheim (Edwin Lee Gibson) drafts an actual mentor (played by Rob Reiner) to help him figure out how he can grow the Beef sandwich window and Sweeps (Corey Hendrix) finds his own in another sommelier (played by retired master Alpana Singh). Carmy, thank God, not only returns to Al-Anon, but he finally visits his mother, which allows a now-sober Donna (in another potentially Emmy-winning performance by Curtis) to admit the harm she has done and try to make amends. It is, inarguably, a very different show than the one that debuted three years ago, with far fewer cacophonous kitchen scenes, and many more Chicago-appreciating exteriors. When the long-awaited wedding of Richie's ex, Tiffany (Gillian Jacobs), reunites many of the characters from the famous "Fishes" episode, fears about a gathering of Berzattos and Faks prove unfounded. Despite a high-pitched and hilarious spat between Sugar and her ex-bestie Francie Fak (Brie Larson), the event is, instead, a celebration of love and reconciliation and includes what passes for a group therapy session under the table where Richie's daughter Eva (Annabelle Toomey) has hidden herself. (This scene, which involved all the main characters, was more than a little undermined by said table's TARDIS-like ability to be "bigger on the inside" and the fact that it held the wedding cake, which did not fall as they all exited, is proof that "The Bear" is not a comedy.) Not even the digital countdown could generate the sizzling, clanking, sniping roar of chronic, organic anxiety that fueled the first two seasons. And I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss it - I love my adrenaline rush as much as the next person. But that's the whole point. Real change doesn't occur with the speed or the electricity of a lightning bolt; as many addicts discover, it's about progress, not perfection. Recovery takes time and often feels weird - if you want to have a different sort of life, you need to do things differently. That's tough on a hit TV show, as the reactions to Season 3 proved (we'll see how it fares when Emmy nominations are announced in a few weeks). Few series have made as large a shift in tone and tempo as "The Bear," but its intentions are clear. To illuminate the necessity, and difficulty, of breaking an addiction to anything, including, chaos, you can't rely on talk; you life to be different, you have to do things differently. --- (Mary McNamara is a culture columnist and critic for the Los Angeles Times.) --- Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 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Metro
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
TV fans are torturing themselves bingeing two heartbreaking dramas back to back
TV fans were torn this weekend between bingeing two of the biggest dramas in recent years, which returned with new seasons within a day of each other. These two shows happen to be particularly gut-wrenching – and so people who watched them back to back were left in an extremely emotional state. On Thursday, the fourth season of The Bear dropped on Disney Plus, following the plight of the restaurant run by Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) in Chicago, an environment that's frequently buzzing with heightened levels of stress. Then 24 hours later, the third and final season of Squid Game launched on Netflix, revealing the fate of protagonist Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) after he entered the deadly game for a second time. If people were on the lookout for two shows that would elevate their anxiety levels, they couldn't have made a better selection. Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro's TV Newsletter. Sign up to our newsletter and then select your show in the link we'll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you. 'Getting heartbroken back to back with The Bear and Squid Game's new seasons isn't fun,' one viewer called @FiveHargreeves wrote on X. 'Squid Game and The Bear dropped? Man my weekend is jam packed,' @MoBetterEats added, while @gltrlvr also wrote that they binge-watched both seasons in the 'past two days'. Several people admitted that they had no idea that both shows were returning with new seasons in the same week, and so they were overwhelmed by the choice of what to watch first. 'Me dodging The Bear and Squid Game spoilers this weekend,' @anchorless stated, as @cherrykissjoon remarked: 'The Bear spoilers, Squid Game spoilers, SO MANY SPOILERS ON THE TL.' To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Despite the mixture of elation and devastation over the experience of bingeing The Bear and Squid Game in one go, some viewers were also concerned that the TV releases could hinder the chances of another series that launched last week – Marvel's Ironheart. 'Releasing this the same week as The Bear and Squid Game? Yeah, not a great choice,' @JimmyTurtlewrote. Metro recently spoke to the creator of Squid Game, Hwang Dong-hyuk, about the future of the franchise, and he revealed where the story could go following the conclusion of season three. 'This is just some ideas that I've been throwing around during production. But there's a three-year gap between season one and two, since Gi-hun turns away from the plane,' he said. 'So I'd like to maybe look into the lives of those behind the mask, the Front Man, the Recruiter and Captain Park. How did they meet? What did they do during the three years? 'How did they stay on top of Gi-hun and whatnot? So that's something that I'm thinking about. I have to make it!' More Trending As for season four of The Bear – well, maybe Metro's Sabrina Barr might turn you towards Squid Game this weekend after saying the series 'still whets my appetite, but season four isn't searing hot'. The Bear still contains 'enough to warm my heart, but not enough to give me that feeling of satisfaction I so sorely crave', the TV Editor wrote. This article was originally published on Friday June 27. View More » Watch Squid Game on Netflix. Watch The Bear on Disney Plus. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Line of Duty fans – we're sucking diesel after Netflix drops all 6 seasons MORE: WWE fans in awe as 'freakish' star finally debuts after 12-month wait MORE: WWE star breaks 40-year record with controversial Night of Champions win
