Month: August 2025

Weapons is a story about a community recovering from an inexplicable trauma that arrives like a natural disaster, wreaks havoc, and then cannot be reversed, only survived.

Biographer Peter Ames Carlin says making Born to Run was an “existential moment” for Springsteen. David Bianculli reviews the new season of Wednesday. Journalist Jennifer Senior discusses insomnia.

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Etiquette expert Elaine Swann tackles tricky questions about staying at a loved one’s place. Is it OK to borrow their car? Extend your stay? Show up empty-handed? Advice on how to be a star guest.

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Clinton began his music career as a teen when he formed The Parliaments. In the early ’70s, he put together Funkadelic, whose Mothership Connection album dropped in 1975. Originally broadcast in 1989.

The new Naked Gun film, starring Liam Neeson, captures its predecessors’ slapstick spirit. Freakier Friday, meanwhile, proves less compelling, despite a solid performance by Lindsey Lohan.

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Biographer Peter Ames Carlin describes the making of Born to Run as an “existential moment” for Springsteen: “If this didn’t work, he was done.” Carlin’s new book is Tonight in Jungleland.

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Those filthy, degenerate daisies have grown back.

We are 25 years into the 2000s, so we wanted to debate: what’s the most definitive piece of Y2K pop culture? We try to pinpoint the essence of that period when teens ruled the culture, viral internet memes first became a thing, and everyone was freaking out about stocking up on duct tape. We talk about Spice World, Get Over It, Britney Spears’ “Oops… I Did It Again” music video, and Janet Jackson’s “Empty.”

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Fourteen million people in Sudan have been displaced by war and famine. The Atlantic‘s Anne Applebaum writes about the scale of destruction in her article, “The Most Nihilistic Conflict on Earth.”

The chain’s bankruptcy filing is the second in seven years. Its troubles include unwieldy debt, shoppers’ changing habits and new tariff costs.

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