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More misconceptions about sports. What year is it (#575)?
Whether it’s artificial intelligence, mass atrophy, or both, typos are everywhere now.
I object to the term "queer" an anti-concept, an equivocal grab bag.
What David Shields got right and wrong in Reality Hunger.
Shifting landscapes as companies respond to Trump’s homophobic regime.
Peggy Noonan incorrectly blames Trump for coarse political culture.
Now that Rafael Devers is gone, will fans flock ever more to Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer?
Win or lose, Oaklanders can relate to Moneyball.
Principal cast assembles for rehearsals on The (Continuing?) Adventures of Cliff Booth.
Whose streets sweep?
Modeling leadership and decision-making.
In the small sub-genre of memoirs about trail-hiking, A Walk Thru Never Land rises to the top.
Let's just hope his bunker-busting, B2 belligerence has a non-fictional justification.
The left wants an anti-Israel socialist for NYC mayor, liberals a plague-promoting harasser.
A cutting-edge science faces an ill-informed budget cut.
F1 may be an exercise in corporate management, but it's also an exciting pastiche of Jerry Bruckheimer’s 1990s blockbusters.
From CDs burnt by local bands to YouTube demos uploaded by Scandinavian songwriters, new music has helped me become more aware of my surroundings.
A 2025 Cosmopolitan interview with rapper Jaylah “Doechii” Hickmon vs. a 2023 Music Business Worldwide interview with music producer Teddy Riley.
The highly anticipated follow up to 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later is the worst of the three films by far.
No more kings, gods, masters, governments, wars, borders, trespassers, or socialists, only men.
Imagined monsters of the 16th-century.
Looking back on Western film Shane (1953) after a weekend in Jackson Hole.
Reflections on No Kings, Pride Marches in Baltimore.
And the only real way through it.
Larry Charles talks about how and why his former collaborator "sold out to Hollywood" in the early-2010s.
The influential YouTube music critic talks about Radiohead, Abbey Road, Drake vs. Kendrick, and more.
More than six hours of Davis and his group recording one of his best albums.
The filmmaker talks about everything from Bottle Rocket to The Phoenician Scheme.
The Congressman talks about Bernie Sanders, Elon Musk, the Democratic Party, and more.
The actor returns to talk with Bill Maher about kissing James Franco in Milk and more.
The late legend live in Santa Monica.
Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw talks about Hollywood relationships, the Pope, and more.
Jazz funk album from Italy in the mid-1970s.
The jazz legend performs with Stan Getz, Wynton Kelly, Oscar Peterson, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb in this set recorded in Germany in 1960.
Robert Rodriguez talks to the director of Here, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Back to the Future, and more.