Dreaming of a White Hanukkah

THE BIG PROFILE: JOHN CHO

By Dave Itzkoff

To grown-ups, John Cho is famous for his roles in “Star Trek,” the “Harold and Kumar” movies and the NBC sitcom “Go On.” But his celebrity is lost on his 4-year-old son, Kage. “I tried to explain to him: ‘You ever see the TV? There are people on the TV who are playing those people,’ ” Cho recalls. “He said to me, ‘Daddy, I never see those people in life.’ He was having trouble with the concept that a person in the TV would not be in the TV sometimes.”

THE MEH LIST

By Samantha Henig

“The science of . . .”

Wool hoodies

The N.H.L. lockout

Caribbean cruises

Bradley Cooper

The sixth night of Hanukkah

“Limited-time offer”*

*Submitted by @CMac123 via #mehlist

Additional reporting and user experience by Libby Gery

THE VILLAGE DOPE

By Maud Newton

Willie Nelson wears a Santa hat on the cover of Texas Monthly. Inside, holly in the shape of marijuana leaves is a wink to his activism and arrests. But Nelson was surprised at the statue his adopted hometown, Austin, erected in his honor on an unofficial holiday for weed-smoking. “Maybe you don’t want to be known as a ‘pot town,’” he says.

YOU SMELL LIKE A TUNA ROLL

BY Hope Reeves

Demeter Fragrance Library, the Long Island-based olfactory company behind scents like “Dirt” and “Turpentine,” recently introduced its latest fragrance, “Sushi.” According to the company, “Sushi” offers a delicate essence of “just-cooked sticky rice and straight-from-the-seaside seaweed.” The company’s chief executive, Mark Crames, said: “The idea was to do something conceptually disruptive while also creating a nice scent. What you really get out of it is the sticky rice — we figured if we went anywhere else with it, it wouldn’t smell good.”


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