Anthony Bourdain was always cool. His conspiratorial baritone was always asking questions of his audience that made us feel like we were hanging out with the guy. And damn, we’d all have liked to hang with Tony, right?

Well that hope is now fueling a “cottage industry dedicated to selling his mythology” reports Vulture. In fact, the chef and author may seem more present today than he did in his lifetime. “He lives now in the Bardo of the algorithm, omnipresent in Reels and YouTube clips. As social media is not prized for expressing the subtlety of the human spirit, the image of that Bourdain — the late-stage Parts Unknown–era Bourdain, exclusively — is almost laughably wise, compassionate, and prophetic. He’s a chain-smoking Odysseus, a merry Sisyphus. Choose your myth; it hardly matters. Every time someone reposts one of his quotes about traveling, or makes his favorite sandwich, they add another brick to the building of a complex that both capitalizes on and obscures the real Bourdain.”

This week, the much-discussed biopic will hit theaters. There’s been a lot of chatter—will it be any good, and would Bourdain have actually hated it?—but it’s produced by A24, and has a cool poster … so call me shallow, but I’ve got high hopes.

But when it premieres, the movie will enter the well-established canon of posthumous Bourdainia. Other notable entrants include Morgan Neville’s 2021 documentary, Roadrunner; Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography, by his longtime assistant, Laurie Woolever; the rather seedier Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain, by Charles Leerhsen; Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations, a collection of his writing; the anthologies The Anthony Bourdain Reader and World Travel; Woolever’s own memoir, Care and Feeding, in which Bourdain plays a central role; a forthcoming Bloomsbury reissue of three of Bourdain’s lesser-known crime novels; and a TV adaptation of Bourdain’s 2012 graphic novel, Get Jiro!

In some ways, this is inevitable: As the man fades further into the past and can no longer correct or add to the record, we fill in the gaps with what we want him to be. Who doesn’t love a misanthrope with a heart of gold? As Vulture puts it: Every generation has the idol it glorifies, the figure who remind its members of their youth and whose likeness comes to embody the values they wish to project. There’s James Dean, Elvis Presley and Kurt Cobain. And now we have Anthony Bourdain.

Of course, we’ve heard this before, but apparently the U.S. and Iran are closing in on an interim agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with the U.S. aiming for an official announcement later today, reports Axios. The deal, which has been under negotiations with Oman for several weeks, is aimed at resuming the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran and restarting negotiations over a nuclear deal.

According to two regional sources, the deal under discussion sets up a 60-day temporary arrangement between Oman and Iran in the Hormuz strait, which could be extended. All inbound traffic of ships through the strait and into the Gulf would go in a northern lane through Iranian waters. All outbound traffic through the strait and into the Arabian Sea would go in a southern lane through Omani waters, in coordination with Iran. And, more importantly, no tolls or fees would be charged during the 60-day period.

Why has this taken so long? So much back and forth? Negotiating is never easy, and Trump considers himself a master of sizing up and exploiting his adversaries. But Iran’s leaders have baffled him. Trump’s inability to strike a favorable deal with Iran has not only cost him politically among war-weary voters, but continued strife around the crucial waterway has made for volatile oil prices at the expense of American consumers and the global economy.

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It’s hard out there. The people you want ghost you and the ones that are chasing you just don’t seem to be your type, right? The pitfalls of gamified dating apps are more reviled than ever: the overly curated profiles, being left feeling disposable and the endless added costs for features that fail to deliver.

A recent Forbes’ survey of 5,000 Americans found that 80% of Millennials and 79% of Gen-Z are tired of the apps—blaming the lack of good connections, repetitive conversations and too much time spent swiping. So now, real-life (IRL) singles events are slowly replacing swipes and filters with activities, taking pressure off the end goal. But are they successful?

The Atlantic reports that the proportion of 25-to-34-year-olds in marriages or cohabiting partnerships dropped steeply from 1980 to 2022—by almost 10 percentage points for college graduates and more than 20 percentage points for people without a degree, according to an analysis by the Financial Times. A shrinking share of young adults have a steady partner, and in 2019, 42 percent of single adults younger than 40 told Pew Research Center that they’d never been in a committed relationship. In a 2025 YouGov poll, 69 percent of single respondents said they “rarely” or “never” go on dates. And people are having less sex. From 2000 to 2018, the share of 25-to-34-year-olds who said they hadn’t had sex in the previous year almost doubled.