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It’s official: Netflix’s League of Legends adaptation, Arcane, has come to an end. But just as with the intervening years between Seasons One and Two, fans can relive the series’ emotional highs and lows with its new soundtrack, composed entirely of original music inspired by the grounded fantasy world of …

“WATCH FOR 5 SECONDS TO PAY OFF HIS MEDICAL BILLS,” the text over Alexis Pruitt’s TikTok video reads. Speaking straight to the camera, Pruitt says she and her young kids are going to have a dance party and they hope you’ll stay and watch. The video cuts to Pruitt’s children, …

I t’s a hot summer night in 1969, and for those of a certain age — young enough to turn on, tune in, drop out — Steve Paul’s the Scene is your place. As a spectator, a musician, a hanger-on. A place where the music comes first, even if you …

After 50 years creeping from the margins of popular culture into the mainstream, Dungeons & Dragons is now bigger than ever. Evolving beyond its roots as a pen-and-paper tabletop RPG (TTRPG), D&D has inspired countless imitators, novels, movies, video games, and — most importantly — generations of storytellers and creators, …

Impact. It’s a word that floats around any discussion involving John Madden. You could be talking about his tenure as a NFL head coach, or the 30-plus year legacy of the video game franchise that bears his name, or just listening to how he would describe a defensive end plowing …

For all its joys, gaming can be really hard. Take massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), a popular genre whose many overlapping systems often require a constant stream of information being blasted at the player. Unlike, say, first-person shooters like Call of Duty, MMOs aren’t about twitch-based gameplay or fast …

When Emily Bear and Abigail Barlow were hit with a lawsuit from Netflix, it felt like their lives were over. Before they were Barlow & Bear, the two songwriters and composers were working in separate parts of the music industry from a young age. But after meeting in 2019, they …

The holidays call for family feasts, and everyone wants to bring the killer side dish that the table can’t stop raving about. Mac and cheese is a natural crowd-pleaser: hearty, homey, vegetarian, and — crucially — hard to mess up. Sure, we can have our disagreements about the little touches …

When Golloria G. was in her first year of college, she had a full-body realization while getting ready for a night out. There she was, in a crowded room filled with body spray, straighteners, and curlers plugged into every available outlet and products strewn in front of mirrors. Girls were …

Public health officials have discovered bird flu in a batch of raw milk being sold in California stores. The Santa Clara County Public Health Department discoveredthe contamination in a batch of “cream top, whole raw milk” produced by Raw Farms LLC. The California Department of Public Health warned consumers not …