Zendaya’s Mom Has Something To Say Following Rumors Of Her Engagement To Tom Holland

Celebrities Attend The 2022 US Open Tennis Championships

Zendaya’s mom has an important message to send following rumors that her daughter is engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Tom Holland. Source: Gotham / Getty Following recent reports that Tom Holland popped the question, Claire […]

Court Rejects Meta’s Motion to Dismiss Epidemic Sound Lawsuit

Meta monetization Facebook Instagram

Photo Credit: Brett Jordan Two months back, Facebook parent Meta moved to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by royalty-free song library Epidemic Sound. Now, the presiding judge has officially denied the motion. This latest […]

Why I teach a course connecting Taylor Swift’s songs to the works of Shakespeare, Hitchcock, and Plath

The Conversation

Unusual Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation US highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of course: “The Taylor Swift Songbook” What prompted the idea for the course? This class is part of a […]

Ancient Egypt unleashed: how the gods, pharaohs, monsters and murderers shattered their silence | Art and design

Also available as a snow globe … the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum.

We are speeding north out of Cairo, careering along fast, wide roads through a desert landscape and out into antiquity. After three hours, we reach Rashid, once known as Rosetta, a port city on the […]

Yes, Some Men Do Actually Name Their Daughters After Exes And Mistresses

"You named me<em> what?</em>"

There’s baby name drama (“my college roommate stole my favorite boy name!”) and then there’s Adam Levine-grade baby name drama. Earlier this week, Instagram model Sumner Stroh alleged that she not only had an affair […]

‘I saw the possibility of what could be done – so I did it’: revolutionary video game The Hobbit turns 40 | Games

‘The best adventure game ever’ … The Hobbit.

As a teenager, Veronika Megler was intent on becoming a statistician. She signed up for a computer science course at Melbourne University, reasoning it would assist her chosen career. “I think there were four women […]

With Kendrick Lamar, Blxst has become the sound of L.A. hip-hop

A man performing onstage.

On a suffocating afternoon in early September, the cavernous Hollywood Palladium was unnaturally empty. Inside, the South-Central hip-hop artist Blxst (pronounced “Blast”) ran through a soundcheck before his second sold-out show at the 4,000 capacity […]

‘I’ve got to stop somewhere!’ How Steve Roud compiled his epic folk song archive | Folk music

Ralph Vaughn Williams 1951

When Steve Roud was young, he began collecting records. Hardly unusual for a child of the 1950s – but this boy from south London was different. Not content with just listening to LPs, Roud began […]