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Jon M. Chu’s Wicked adaptation gets at the heart of what makes musicals such a spectacular form of storytelling. It’s become strangely common for stu...
As Bitcoin reaches a new all-time high and meme coins gain traction, $FLOCK’s ICO has surged impressively, climbing from under $1 million to over $2.6 million in just a few weeks.
Analysts anticip...
Thanksgiving is officially upon us, bringing with it the seasonal mirth and good cheer of the holiday.
Along with long-awaited family reunions, action-packed football games, and heaping plat...
Like many middle-aged women I know, I spent my summer parsing the rallying calls of personhood and artmaking ringing out from the new roster of divorce books—books like All Fours by Miranda July, L...
If you’re thinking of starting a photography business, it’s definitely going to need a name. For a lot of people, coming up with a name for their business sounds easy, but it rarely is.
So, how do...
The inimitable Andy Serkis took on the persona of an ape, perhaps even that of Caesar from The Planet of the Apes, and read a defiant letter “written” in 1929 by Consul Junior, a famous...
Haliey Welch, better known as the Hawk Tuah girl, says she doesn’t feel the need to thank the content creators who posted the video that made her famous.
In June, Haliey and one of her friends wer...
With 2025 right around the corner, you may be trying to come up with your New Year's resolutions. If you have any reading goals for 2025, starting with some renowned bestselling authors who have wr...
"Full House" alum Candace Cameron Bure is keeping the faith in her beloved co-star, Dave Coulier, after it was recently announced that the 65-year-old actor was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin l...
If you work in social media marketing, odds are you’ve been told (or haunted by) this one phrase.
Make us go viral.
But hold the eye rolls. After all, who doesn’t want to get their b...
No matter how popular they are, most celebrities have haters, too. And actors are no exception. Beloved by many, they get on some people's nerves, sometimes for no apparent reason. But that's usual...
The ancient twins stood shoulder to shoulder at her doorstep, indistinguishable from each other right down to the matching salmon sport coats, as if in all their years they had never abandoned th...
If you take a moment to really observe your surroundings, humor might just be hiding in the smallest moments—whether it’s your cat’s dramatic stretch or the chaos of your kids chasing after a doggo...
Mark Haber’s new novel, Lesser Ruins, begins with its main character facing grief and spelling out exactly how he plans to avoid it: “Anyway, I think, she’s dead, and though I loved her, I now have...
Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls, Emmanuel Carrère’s V13, and Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s The Scapegoat all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.
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Me: “What do you love about dialogue?”
Also me: “The fact that only in a dialogue I can tell you to shut up!”
When I fi...
Alexander Pope is hardly an unknown quantity. Born in London to a family of merchants in 1688 and buried in a Catholic Church in the suburb of Twickenham in 1744, he has a metaphorical statue in th...
Memento Movi, a mini-app by Michael Condouris, is what you get when you use movies as a progress bar for life expectancy. Enter your birthdate and expected lifespan. Then select a movie from the li...
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Last night both of my curious kitties discovered the cabinet where I keep 'their' treats. It's my fa...
“Robert just sent a picture of himself from 1981...