Rarely a week goes by without reading about the harms of social media. From democratic decline and misinformationto children’s mental health issues and addiction, we are continually learning about the many ways in which the largest social media companies are harming people, communities and countries. If we are to address …

Singer-songwriter Alec Benjamin weaves a wild self-help yarn on his new song, “I Sent My Therapist to Therapy.” The title is basically the conceit of the song, but Benjamin fills the verses with intricate storytelling, culminating in the chorus, “He said, I’ll tell you what I’m sorry but I thought …

On Thursday night, the Justice Department unsealed nine new tax-charges against Hunter Biden. The new charges come as the president’s much-maligned son finds himself at the center of countless right-wing conspiracies, GOP-led investigations into his foreign business dealings, and a DOJ special counsel probe Biden doesn’t sit down for many …

It’s one of the first cold fall nights in the mountains of East Tennessee and Lindsay Lou is tightening her winter coat as she prepares to take the outdoor stage at CaveFest, an Americana and bluegrass gathering held southeast of Nashville at the Caverns, an underground venue with an aboveground …

Sam Esmail sacrificed his hearing while making his new apocalyptic thriller Leave the World Behind. You see, in the Netflix adaption of Rumaan Alam’s 2020 novel, there’s a noise so terrifying that it incapacitates the entire country — and Esmail had to get it just right. “As a filmmaker, I …

Have you looked at the Billboard Hot 100 lately? If not, you’re in for a treat.The Christmas classics have flooded in and shaken everything up, making for one slightly surreal snow globe that features Doja Cat, Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, and Gunna all rocking around the same tree. Speaking of …

With two weeks to go before Christmas, Mariah Carey delivered an early gift to fans Friday with a new video for “All I Want for Christmas Is You” that focuses on her “Lambs” fanbase. The visual culls footage from Carey’s current “Merry Christmas One and All!” tour, with an added …

A self-published novelist is claiming Adam McKay ripped off a book he wrote for his 2021 Netflix movie Don’t Look Up in a new lawsuit. William Collier claims that in 2007, he wrote a novel called Stanley’s Comet, which was later self-published in 2012. The suit describes Stanley’s Comet as …

O F ALL THE STRANGE, conspiratorial, and potentially dangerous theories Donald Trump and his allies came up with in the days after the 2020 election, this was the strangest, the most conspiratorial, the most potentially dangerous. Millions of electronic ballots for Trump had been “deleted,” and hundreds of thousands more …

System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian and Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, who recorded the song “Patterns” together in 2000, have reunited for a new song that will help raise money for imperiled Armenians. The tune was the brainchild of Cesar Gueikian, CEO of Gibson Brands. Gueikian, an Argentine …