What do the following words/phrases have in common?

1. New 

2. Dinner

3. Tricks

4. The boss

5. The beef

 

Answer:

 

Each word or phrase can be preceded with one of the question words associated with journalism:

 

1. What's new?

2. When's dinner?

3. How's tricks?

4. Who's the boss?

5. Where's the beef

(Other possibilities:

Why's that?

Where's Waldo?

Who's on first?)