Setting aside the challenges surrounding a worldwide pandemic, The New Abnormal (2020) was released at a critical time for the Strokes. It was nearly two decades following their groundbreaking debut and seven years removed from another middling effort. Any misstep would have signaled the beginning of the end. Instead, the record was a mid-career resurgence lauded by critics and
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The Toronto Film Festival announced its TIFF Docs slate Wednesday, a lineup that boasts marquee names in front of and behind the lens. The world premiere of Rapinoe, Rebeca Huntt’s film about soccer star Megan Rapinoe – winner of Olympic and Women’s World Cup titles – will literally kick things off as the opening-night selection
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Sleep has more in store than an upcoming tour and comic book. The stoner doom-metal gods are set to drop Hempispheres (get it?) on October 30 via Third Man. The follow-up to 2018’s The Sciences marks the band’s first with its new lineup of Bubba Dupree and Dale Crover, who join longtime frontman Al Cisneros.
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An honest, in-depth review of Vida Glow collagen supplements covering ingredients, results, taste and whether the price tag is justified for anyone serious about skin health. The ingestible beauty market has grown rapidly in recent years, and with it has come a wave of brands promising transformative results from a daily supplement. Among them, Vida
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy faced stiff criticism in June when he announced that he had taken a seven-month road trip paid for by millions of dollars in corporate largesse, ostensibly to produce a reality TV series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. But several months later, people are asking, “Where’s the show?” Related Insights for the LGBTQ+
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“‘There isn’t any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep’”. —an inhabitant of the planet Tralfamador in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five “‘There’s more to life than what you read
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Linus van Pelt, brother to Lucy and Rerun, is one of the main characters in Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip who has the body of a child and the philosophical depth of an old man who has survived countless ordeals. In the more than 70 years since his debut, his sagacious mind has yielded
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ICE CREAM MAN (2026) Review by Matt Boiselle  Written & Directed by Eli Roth, and starring Ari Millen, Charlie Zeltzer & Sarah Abbott Let’s just get this out of the way…  If you walk into Ice Cream Man expecting grounded storytelling and subtle scares, you’re in the wrong theater. Eli Roth’s typical fashion didn’t allow this movie
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Goodreads’ selection of the biggest fall debut novels includes a mix of familiar names and newcomers, and a variety of genres and categories, making for an exciting season of discovery. These books hitting U.S. shelves August through early December include three big names—one from an unexpected space: Trying to fit more global settings into your
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Opponents of gender-affirming care for trans youth often claim that puberty blockers negatively impact young people’s bone density; something that sounds alarming considering that adolescence is the primary time of life when humans acquire their lifelong bone mass. However, a study published today in the journal JAMA Pediatrics concluded that trans minors on puberty blockers
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Anthony Michael Hall has been threaded through Gen X‘s cultural memory for most of our lives. We first knew him as the anxious, earnest kid trying to survive adolescence in National Lampoon’s Vacation, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, and The Breakfast Club.  His characters were awkward, intelligent, insecure, funny, and painfully sincere, and decades later, we
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Multi-hyphenate filmmaker Barrett D. Carroll’s new queer horror short, EAT, is set to thrill festival audiences this August. The film has already captured the attention of major genre voices, including Jeffrey Reddick, the creator of the blockbuster Final Destination franchise. Reddick highly praises the short, calling EAT “a visceral, unsettling descent into repression and desire,
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As I’ve cycled between audiobooks, ebooks, and physical books these last few years, a personal pattern has emerged. I’ve noticed that certain genres, and even subgenres, work better for me as audiobooks rather than physical or ebooks, and vice versa. Then there are the books where I mix and match. When it comes to my
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On an evening in early June, inside the cranberry-hued orchestra hall of Iceland’s Harpa, a sold-out crowd of hundreds held their breath for Hildur Guðnadóttir to take the stage. When she does, introducing herself informally as the 2026 Reykjavik Arts Festival’s Artist-in-Residence, the pressure of anticipation bursts, and the hall floods with applause. Here she
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The anime industry has been constantly evolving in terms of productions, formats, and animation quality. However, what does not seem to change is the devotion to certain classic anime franchises. These titles have left such a profound mark on the medium that there are renewed efforts to revitalize them through new adaptations, aiming to bring
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