By: Lauren Mitchell The Texas Americana songwriter turns personal history, hard-earned wisdom, and the relentless passage of time into five songs that ask what it really means to live. There’s a particular kind of freedom that comes with realizing you no longer need to prove you have everything figured out.
By: George Mac Allister There is a particular category of educational children’s book that manages to be genuinely entertaining rather than instructively earnest, where the learning happens so naturally inside the pleasure of the reading experience that the child never quite notices the vocabulary lesson arriving. The Unknown Gnome from
Verity, the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s psychological thriller, opened at No. 1 at the domestic box office with $32.6 million from 3,510 theaters over the October 2–4 weekend. Starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett, the film added about $30 million overseas for a global start of roughly
By: Leslie Duvall There are Saturday nights, and then there are the Saturday nights nobody puts in the beer commercials. See Your Shadow’s “Another Saturday” lives squarely in that second category. This is not Saturday night as freedom, flirtation, neon lights and somebody shouting “one more round.” This is Saturday
The nor’easter that hit the Northeast from September 25 to 28, 2026, wiped out one of the fall’s busiest live music weekends. Organizers canceled the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park, the three-day All Things Go NYC festival in Queens, and both of Ed Sheeran’s concerts at Gillette Stadium, shutting
Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour lost every one of its opening acts in a 24-hour span this week after Macklemore was removed from the U.S. leg for making pro-Palestinian comments during two MetLife Stadium shows. Finneas, Irish singer-songwriter Aaron Rowe, Irish band Beoga, and Danish pop group Lukas Graham all withdrew
Have you ever thought about what it actually means to “save” humanity? In most science fiction, the answer is physical survival. Which often includes building a faster ship, finding a greener planet, or outrunning a dying sun. But in Clay Blankenship’s gripping novel Directive Zero, the preservation of the human
By: Grant Whitmore After more than two decades in entertainment, Dante Nero is turning a lifetime of unusual experiences into a broader conversation about character, confidence, and how people relate to one another. Dante Nero has spent most of his life watching people. Sometimes from a comedy stage. Sometimes from
By: Nicholas Stone The entertainment industry has been generating YA fiction for decades, and most of it falls into one of two predictable categories: the cautionary tale that positions fame as inherently corrupting or the aspirational fantasy that presents it as straightforwardly achievable through sufficient talent and determination. Michele Kwasniewski
By: Michael Beas There is a specific pleasure that comes from reading a thriller in which the setting is not simply an evocative backdrop but a genuine character in its own right, a place whose spectacular geography and unique limitations shape every decision the characters make and every outcome the
By: Nathalie Colombus Michael S. Levy, PhD, has spent his career at the intersection of clinical psychology and the most difficult aspects of human behavior, serving as the clinical director of multiple mental health and substance use treatment programs and as a longtime lecturer at the Division of Addictions at
By: Michael Beas The rarest quality in any writing about technology is the ability to hold the technical and the humanistic in genuine integration rather than superficial combination, to bring rigorous knowledge of how systems actually function alongside genuine philosophical depth about what those systems mean for the people who
Target removed a children’s Halloween costume from stores and its website on August 25, 2026, after widespread social media backlash over a design critics said evoked racist minstrel-era caricatures. The retailer issued a public apology, acknowledged the product should never have reached shelves, and said it is reviewing internal processes
The five-hour broadcast drew about 7 million unique viewers and peaked at approximately 230,000 concurrent viewers, according to analytics supplied by his team. The reported result puts a creator from Kazakhstan ahead of previously reported TikTok LIVE like totals associated with major global brands. Kazakh content creator Nurdaulet Bektursyn, known
The only total solar eclipse of 2026 swept across the Northern Hemisphere on Wednesday, August 12, plunging parts of Greenland, Iceland, and northern Spain into darkness for up to 2 minutes and 18 seconds while delivering a partial eclipse visible from Alaska to the mid-Atlantic coast. The event marked the
By: Fabiana Simmons There is a risk in reading a strong psychological thriller that is not always acknowledged in reviews. It can recalibrate a reader’s expectations for the genre in ways that make more routine entries feel less satisfying afterward. The Lines Between is that kind of novel, the kind
Storytelling has long been one of society’s most powerful tools for inspiring change. Whether through books, speeches, or film, compelling stories have the ability to challenge perspectives, amplify overlooked voices, and encourage meaningful action. For Dr. Robin J. Bell, filmmaking has become an extension of a lifelong commitment to service,