“‘Help Me, Rhonda’ is my 16-month-old’s favorite song. A passing memory from our childhoods but it came to mind when my ...

What a year for music — great songs came out of anywhere, in every style and every genre. These are my 25 favorite songs of 2025, though some gems will appear over on my albums list, to avoid ...

This year, with an admiring nod to pop culture critic Linda Holmes and her annual “50 Wonderful Things” list for NPR, I’m trying something different with my year-end list. Due to changing ...

Professionally speaking, my most optimistic moment of 2025 came near the start of the year. It was January, during a review meal at a little-known pop-up called Ancestro, and the simple, graceful menu ...

Rap in 2025 was all about experimentation. From the year’s first runaway hit, NBA player-turned-musician Gelo’s single “Tweaker,” to the maximalist ecclesiastics of Playboi Carti’s Music, or even in ...

The College Football Playoff has arrived, and with it a smaller stage where a handful of elite players can decide games. This list is pulled directly from our full Top 150 player rankings -- which ...

Astute front-office moves in the NFL can be the difference between competing for a Super Bowl and sitting at home in January. These 25 moves stand out as the best of the best from 2025.

We asked some of our favorite culture creators to give us their best-of lists for 2025; the rest of James Gunn's top 50 alternative rap songs of the year can be found right here. Easily my favorite ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

As the year comes to an end, we are wading deep into list season. Now that we’ve talked about the best albums, songs, debuts, and EPs of 2025, it’s time to get even more granular and pay tribute to a ...

Ask ChatGPT why it’s so hard to plan a vacation and its top reason — of eight — is decision paralysis. Information overload comes second. Like everything generated by the bot, that answer is overly ...

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