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When Phil Rosenthal energetically bounded into Washington, D.C.’s Michelin starred Albi in the trend-setting Navy Yard neighborhood to greet its chef, James Beard Award winner Michael Rafidi, it was a moment of warm reunion. The recent D.C. episode in Season 7 of the epicurean explorer’s hit Netflix series Somebody Feed Phil featured a visit to Rafidi’s beloved café, Yellow, so the get-together on December 16 at Rafidi’s refined homage to cuisine of the Levant was both a homecoming and an exclusive event for Chase United Cardmembers. Elevating the gathering further, Chase made a donation to the non-profit No Kid Hungry, which Rosenthal has supported for years.

Phil Rosenthal and guests

As the culinary team busied themselves in the spacious open kitchen dominated by a crackling wood-burning hearth, guests mingled and took the opportunity to meet Rosenthal, who recently wrapped filming the eighth season of Somebody Feed Phil,...

Horrific allegations of sexual hazing in the locker room have one high school in New Jersey facing a season without football. At Sayreville War Memorial High School, underclassmen players dreaded whenever the lights went out in the locker room. It was a sign of bad things to come, a source tells Sports Illustrated. What exactly those bad things were, no one really knows, though a report published on NJ.com suggests that upperclassmen on the team would restrain freshman players and digitally penetrate them. Sometimes that finger was then forced into their mouths, a parent of a player in the program told NJ Advance Media.

Looking back at the early days of cinema allows us not only the opportunity to see the development of our favourite medium but also discover the hidden gems which may have been forgotten.

Network Releasing are shining their own particular light on some of the lesser-known films from one of the most important studios in British cinema history. The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection Vol. 1 (out on the 8th of April) contains early works from directors such as Carol Reed and Basil Dean and we’ve got a clip and a couple of rare production images from the wonderfully named Cheer Up! for you today.

A struggling playwright hopes to market a musical comedy that he has written in collaboration with another equally penurious composer. Anxious to secure the backing of a millionaire, the two composers only succeed in making him angry — until, following a chain of misunderstandings, they finally emerge triumphant.

Rory Bremner – the satirist, writer and impressionist – as well as actress Michelle Dockery and Julian Fellowes, now Lord Fellowes of West Stafford, have all agreed to become Patrons of Changing Faces, the UK’s leading charity that supports and represents people with disfigurements.

Lord Fellowes, writer of the BAFTA winning series, Downton Abbey, said “I am very proud to be allowed an involvement with Changing Faces, an extraordinary organisation for extraordinary people”.

They join other public figures who are Patrons of the charity like Jan Ravens, Bill Simons, Simon Weston and Benjamin Zephaniah.

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