Melissa Gray is a senior producer for Weekend Edition. She got her start in public radio at WUGA in Athens, Georgia. Since joining NPR in 1999, she's written, produced, reported and edited thousands of stories and interviews. She's also directed all of the news magazines at one time or another. Gray is known for her enthusiasm, wit and curiosity. She's especially proud of the Weekend Edition series "Outbreak Voices," which featured everyday Americans sharing their experiences during the first 2 years of the pandemic.

Christian Louboutin's new Daffodil 160 Platforms make us dizzy with excitement (or maybe it's vertigo?) Boasting a 6.5 inch heel and 2.5 inch platform, they are a fraction shorter than last summer's outlandish Prada heels that resulted in models falling - albeit elegantly - on the catwalk. They are irrefutably covetable and will lift any outfit from cool to 100% drool status. We recommend practising walking in them first - or set up an obstacle course in your living room - before hitting the dance floor.

If you're one of Salma Hayek 12 million followers on Instagram, consider yourself lucky. She just celebrated hitting the 12 million mark by treating her fans to a nude image while getting an acupuncture treatment. She captioned the picture with a statement in English and Spanish to cater to all her followers, including the Hispanic fanbase -- stating ''a needle for health and well-being representing each million of you.''  https://www.instagram.com/p/B3mlk8oJH6Y Fans were praising the Mexican actress' image, but also claiming disappointment as she was not completely nude.

If you treat grocery shopping like a chore, all you will notice are the bruised apples, long lines, grim yellow lighting, and bitter chill of the frozen aisle. But a grocery store is only as tedious as you make it. Disneyland also has long lines and a hellscape parking lot, but you probably don't treat your visit like a chore — you go in wide-eyed and open to the magic.

There's no spell powerful enough to bring Kat Graham back should Vampire Diaries return. ET's Will Marfuggi spoke to Graham, who played the teenage witch, Bonnie Bennett, for all eight seasons of the long-running series, about her future on the show, and why the singer-actress is focusing on her new music. "I mean, eight years, you know eight years of my life," Graham, who has been vocal in the past about not returning for a reboot, said of the time she spent on Vampire Diaries.