This year’s Women’s March, set to happen on Saturday in cities across the country, has become extraordinarily messy. In 2017, the marches that took place in Washington and nationwide — the largest protests in American history — were radiant symbols of hope and resistance at a bleak, terrifying …
Popular music is shrinking. From 2013 to 2018, the average song on the Billboard Hot 100 fell from 3 minutes and 50 seconds to about 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Six percent of hit songs were 2 minutes 30 seconds or shorter in 2018, up from just 1% five years before. Take Kendrick Lamar. One of the …
Based on their regular season matchups, the AFC and NFC title games will be fun as hell. Normally, the AFC and NFC Championship games featuring the top two seeds in each conference might seem a bit anticlimactic. All-chalk? Booooring. That’s not the case this year, though. Not only did the Chiefs, …
Welcome to Nerdstrong, the Los Angeles gym that mixes comic books and CrossFit. There’s an unassuming storefront, tucked into an unassuming strip mall in North Hollywood, California, where groups of unassuming men and women slay dragons. They wield swords and maces. They battle goblins, duck …
The package appeared one day, unbidden, on the desk of a TIME writer. Inside was a slick white box that housed a petri dish sealed with gold tape. In …
Spoiler alert: It’s simply not the case that families with kids have disappeared from urban America. Look around a hip neighborhood in Lower Manhattan or downtown San Francisco, and you’ll see lots of young people, and Baby Boomers whose kids have left the nest. There are also some stylish moms (or …
Last Friday evening, as spectators streamed into the Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré, San Juan’s main performing-arts center, a man in a Colonial waistcoat, breeches, and cravat spoke into a microphone in the plaza. “We want everybody to join this fight for Puerto Rico to become the …
For a medievalist like myself, it doesn’t get much better than Deborah Harkness’s A Discovery of Witches. Both the internationally bestselling trilogy …
A decade after Lohan’s career first unraveled, she's attempting a comeback with Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club on MTV — but we’re still trying to …
Some things never get old. That is certainly true of juicy details about the infamous Fyre Festival, which has been an object of fascination and …
