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Ready to test your brain cells in 2026? How many of last year's biggest pop culture moments and scandals do you remember?...
Ready to test your brain cells in 2026? How many of last year's biggest pop culture moments and scandals do you remember?...
The actress and singer was a symbol of sexual revolution. She later became an animal-welfare campaigner and incendiary right-wing commenter....
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/arts/music/washington-national-opera-kennedy-center.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561081 Points: 12 # Comments: 0...
Koury Angelo/Bravo; Roy Rochlin/Getty Images; Swig Drinks; Alyssa Powell/BI In 2025, Mormonism was at the center of mainstream popular culture. Reality shows, along with brands like Swig and Crumbl, h...
Here's how to send your questions and curiosities to the NPR team covering the Winter Olympics in Milan. (Image credit: Mattia Ozbot)...
The Kennedy Center is ending the year with a new round of artists saying they are canceling scheduled performances after President Donald Trump's name was added to the facility. (Image credit: Julia D...
๐ Key Facts โ Only 13 albums have spent 10 or more weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since 2000. โ Taylor Swift has four such albums,...
The future of cinemagoing is top of mind as 2026 kicks off, with Netflix, which is buying Warner Bros. for $72 billion, reportedly interested in a 17-day window for theatrical releases before they hit...
Kristin Patrick. Marc Jacobs This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kristin Patrick, the CMO at Marc Jacobs, about her daily routine in New York City. It's been edited for length and cl...
Timothรฉe Chalamet in "Marty Supreme." A24 Timothรฉe Chalamet encounters many familiar faces in "Marty Supreme." Along with Kevin O'Leary and Gwyneth Paltrow, internet celebrities and NB...
Last year, I had the great pleasure of attending the Games Industry Conference (GIC) in Poznaล, Wielkopolska, where I sat in on a number of talks about game development and craft. In one of those talk...
The parking lot was packed. That's the first Strange Thing. A little background. Just about every mall is struggling now, but the Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem, Pennsylvania is more or less comatose. As ...
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this January 1st, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel....
The popularity of Chinese dramas is exploding, creating a multibillion-dollar industry. Global viewers find themselves attracted to these "universal" stories and appreciate their glimpse at Chinese cu...
The popularity of Chinese dramas is exploding, creating a multibillion-dollar industry. Global viewers find themselves attracted to these "universal" stories and appreciate their glimpse at Chinese cu...
The popularity of Chinese dramas is exploding, creating a multibillion-dollar industry. People worldwide find themselves attracted to these "universal" stories some say are normalizing Chinese culture...
Netflix has had an interesting year. Its ad tier, introduced last year, has grown significantly, and its live TV initiative has expanded to include not only weird one-offs like hot-dog-eating grudge m...
Flappy Bird was almost preposterously simple. If you ever played the game, even once, you surely remember how it worked, but here's a summary just in case. You were a bird. Your job was to fly, left t...
๐ Key Facts โ David Walliams was dropped from a children's book festival โ The drop followed claims of inappropriate behaviour ...
Gen Zers started going to the movies more this year. koldo studio/Getty Images Gen Z movie theater attendance jumped 25% in 2025; I was one of those Gen Zers at the movies. AMC A-List and similar prog...