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Time of India
4 days ago
- Lifestyle
- Time of India
Women Born on These Dates Are a Blessing to Their Families
Some women walk into a room and suddenly everything smells like home-cooked food and emotional healing. They're the ones who can fix family drama with a stare and make everyone feel like their inner child got a warm blanket. Turns out, astrology's been whispering about them for centuries—and their birthdays carry serious main character energy Dates to watch (and thank the heavens for): The 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 18th, 21st, 24th, and 27th of any month. These dates are just dripping with good vibes according to numerology—blessed with amazing intuition, natural nurturing skills, and enough patience to actually survive a group family vacation without screaming. Born on the 3rd or 12th These women were probably leading a school play at age 7 and counseling adults by 17. Their creativity perfectly mixes with deep emotional insight. Think Oprah meets Phoebe Buffay—maybe with less guitar, but definitely with way more grounded advice that just hits right. Born on the 6th or 24th Get ready for the ultimate caregivers. These souls arrive with an instinctive ability to hold everything together, even when the family group chat is pure chaos. Basically, they're the human version of the "save draft" feature when life feels completely unhinged. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Dermatologista recomenda: simples truque elimina o fungo facilmente Acabe com o Fungo Undo Born on the 9th or 27th These are old souls in modern packaging. They absorb family burdens like seasoned pros, then somehow turn them into valuable life lessons without needing any applause. They're somewhere between a therapist, a spiritual guide, and that one friend who always has tissues in their bag. Born on the 18th or 21st These women are problem-solvers with serious style. They come with a built-in radar for family dysfunction and a quiet superpower for defusing it. If this were Hogwarts, they'd undoubtedly be the Head Girl of House Healing. What makes them a blessing? It's not about being perfect. It's about being incredibly present—with intuition sharper than the plot twists in a Nolan film and hearts big enough to absorb emotional fallout like it's just another Tuesday. These specific birthdates don't guarantee sainthood, of course. But more often than not, the women born on them are the kind of steady anchors families quietly thank the universe for—usually right after pretending they could ever survive without them. Discover everything about astrology at the Times of India , including daily horoscopes for Aries , Taurus , Gemini , Cancer , Leo , Virgo , Libra , Scorpio , Sagittarius , Capricorn , Aquarius , and Pisces .
Daily Mail
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Friends star, 63, stuns with youthful appearance in new video 28 years after fan favorite role on sitcom
An actress and singer who made a fan favorite appearance on Friends has stunned fans with her youthful glow 28 years later. When she was in her early 30s, Elizabeth 'E.G.' Daily featured as the title character on the 1997 episode The One With Phoebe's Ex-Partner. E.G. made a splash as Leslie, the former singer-songwriter collaborator of Lisa Kudrow 's beloved character Phoebe Buffay. Leslie and Phoebe plunge into a seething feud over Smelly Cat, the song that all fans will instantly recognize as the centerpiece of Phoebe's repertoire. In a scene that Friends devotees remember fondly to this day, Phoebe and Leslie get back together for one last hurrah to sing a duet called Sticky Shoes. Now, E.G., 63, has posted a new TikTok remembering her Friends shot - leaving viewers agog at how she has aged 'like wine' and looks 'amazing.' 'Everybody says that I look like the girl who sang "Smelly Cat" on Friends,' she wrote over a new video of her grinning. 'Probably because I am!' With her hair still blonde, her megawatt smile still radiant and her lithe figure shown off by a crop top, E.G. looked nowhere near her 63 years. Fans flocked to the comments section to gush over how 'hot' and 'amazing' she looks, as one effervesced: 'You age like wine, GORGEOUS.' Other viewers marveled: 'God you're beautiful,' and: 'How do you look so young,' while one prayed: 'Dear gawd , please let me be this pretty when I'm her age.' E.G. enjoys a host of fans who remember her wide variety of roles over the years, including the voice of Tommy Pickles on the children's show Rugrats. Others recall her as Dottie in Tim Burton's classic 1985 feature film debut Pee Wee's Big Adventure, starring the late Paul Reubens in the title role. She has also won her admirers as the voice of Buttercup on The Powerpuff Girls, and a part in the 1983 live-action romantic comedy Valley Girl. However perhaps her most enduring role was on Friends as Leslie, who wrote songs with Phoebe before going off to work for an ad agency. When Leslie hears the tune to Phoebe's song Smelly Cat, she suggests she sell it for a jingle, an idea that Phoebe rejects out of hand. Ultimately, Phoebe gives her old friend an ultimatum - either they can collaborate again or Leslie can hawk Smelly Cat for use as a jingle. Leslie chooses her ad agency, prompting Phoebe to write a song that goes: 'Jingle b**** screwed me over, go to hell jingle w****.' On the personal front, she was married from 1995 until 2000 to Rick Salomon, who infamously co-starred in Paris Hilton's sex tape and whose subsequent wives were Shannen Doherty and Pamela Anderson.
Time Out
07-05-2025
- General
- Time Out
NYC is among the happiest cities in the world—yes, we're shocked, too
When we think of a classic New York disposition, words like "curmudgeonly", "stern", "impatient" and "no f***s given" come to mind—more Fran Lebowitz than Phoebe Buffay. Imagine our surprise, then, when our not-so-fair city ended up on the Happy City Index 2025, a global study that ranks "cities based on the happiness of their citizens." Created by the London-based Institute for Quality of Life, the annual index evaluates 200 cities worldwide using 82 indicators across six major categories believed to have the most direct impact on overall happiness: governance, environment, economy, mobility, citizen well-being and health. Within those lead markers are 26 subcategories, noting important elements like green space, educational systems, inclusive policies, housing opportunities and access to culture, among others. The cities are then ranked and awarded either gold, silver or bronze status. And much to our delightful shock, New York City has earned gold status in this year's rankings, coming in at number 17 with 902 total points. (For comparison, Copenhagen, Denmark took the top spot of 2025's happiest city with 1,039 points.) NYC was praised for its vibrant cultural scene, its growing investment in sustainable infrastructure, its considerable civic engagement and its innovative spirit. Notably, New York is the only American city to crack the top 25 rankings, which is unsurprisingly dominated by progressive Scandinavian cities like Stockholm and Helsinki, picturesque European capitals like Zurich and Paris, and splashy Asian hubs like Seoul and Singapore. Check out how NYC stacks up among the top 25 happiest cities in the world below and see the full Happy City Index 2025 rankings here. 1. Copenhagen, Denmark: 1039 total points 2. Zurich, Switzerland: 993 total points 3. Singapore: 979 total points 4. Aarhus, Denmark: 958 total points 5. Antwerp, Belgium: 956 total points 6. Seoul, South Korea: 942 total points 7. Stockholm, Sweden: 941 total points 8. Taipei, Taiwan: 936 total points 9. Munich, Germany: 931 total points 10. Rotterdam, Netherlands: 920 total points 11. Vancouver, Canada: 919 total points 12. Vienna, Austria: 918 total points 13. Paris, France: 909 total points 14. Helsinki, Finland: 908 total points 15. Aalborg, Denmark: 906 total points 16. Berlin, Germany: 905 total points 17. New York, USA: 902 total points 18. Dresden, Germany: 893 total points 19. Brussels, Belgium: 887 total points 20. Geneva, Switzerland: 883 total points 21. Porto, Portugal: 879 total points 22. Barcelona, Spain: 875 total points 23. Oslo, Norway: 870 total points 24. Dublin, Ireland: 862 total points 25. Milan, Italy: 856 total points
The Guardian
24-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Were the Friends even human? Watching the old shows again, they certainly don't breed like the rest of us
I've started watching this great fantasy series from the mid-90s and early 00s – it's called Friends. It follows a group of humanoid characters who treat childbirth as a social occasion, wear full makeup postpartum and never look after their babies. The fantasy element is very clever – so subtle in fact that it is only now, watching it decades later, as a parent myself, that I even noticed it. Perhaps back in the 90s the otherworldly nature of Phoebe Buffay waiting to give birth to triplets in a room chock-full of her wise-cracking friends, despite it being a high-risk pregnancy, was understood. Maybe the way that Ross Geller's baby Ben is delivered under a sheet, by an obstetrician apparently working blind, was a well-known speculative fiction trope back then. Possibly when it originally aired, parents were simply amazed by the special effects involved when Rachel Green was shown sitting in a coffee shop gossiping about her love life, three weeks after giving birth, in full makeup and blow-dry, high heels, a pair of size 10 jeans – and entirely without her baby. Whatever was going on, no one at the time seemed fazed by this uncanny valley where babies breastfeed just once in their life, never get ill and are put behind glass in hospital nurseries to be glanced at by visiting relatives who then have sex in cupboards. Luckily, television depictions of birth and parenting have come a long way since I was a child. And I was paying attention, even then. For instance, I remember the scene from Cold Feet in which Karen stormed into her husband David's office demanding that he hire her a nanny (nannies are a big feature of these shows, you will notice). What I didn't remember, and only spotted on a recent rewatch, is that in a preceding scene Karen is shown tearing her hair out at the kitchen table, while trying to feed porridge to her toddler. Except the toddler has a dummy in his mouth, rendering him entirely unable to eat any porridge even if he wanted to. This sort of continuity error might seem small-scale to some of you, but it's the sort of glaring misunderstanding of early parent life that makes me wonder if anyone on that writing, directing and production team was regularly feeding their own child. In recent years, the number of television shows showing something a little closer to what I recognise as pregnancy, birth and early child-wrangling have exploded: Motherland, The Letdown, Trying, Catastrophe, Better Things and Breeders have all made some effort to involve a little domestic labour in their plotlines. Some of them let the babies actually cry and breastfeed. Occasionally the parents look tired and can't make social arrangements. Sometimes, the children in these shows even have lines. I have no doubt that this is, in part at least, because there are more women writing, directing and producing television today. And before you say it, yes, I know Marta Kauffman created Friends and I also know that she has three children. But as I've already pointed out, Friends is a fantasy series. It's magical realism. Kauffman knows that, I know that and I'm sure Lisa Kudrow, who got pregnant during season four, knows that too. I'm not so oblivious to the needs of television drama and comedy to think that you can make a 20-minute episode showing a woman sitting in a dark room at 3am trying to guide a nipple into her baby's ear, in a delirium of exhaustion while wondering idly if she's got threadworms again. But as books such as Becky Barnicoat's new graphic novel Cry When the Baby Cries have shown, the comedy and drama involved in pregnancy and parenthood are right there, in heart-rending, breathtaking detail, if we just allow people to show them. Maybe books have always done it better. About 40 years after they were published, the classic Jill Murphy children's books Five Minutes' Peace, Peace at Last and Whatever Next! still speak more directly to the experience of being a parent than many film and television depictions we've had since. Mrs Large from Five Minutes' Peace may be a bipedal marmalade-eating elephant living in the suburbs. But she's still a more realistic parent than Rachel Green. Nell Frizzell is the author of Holding the Baby: Milk, Sweat and Tears from the Frontline of Motherhood
