The 2021 Lenovo Legion 5 Pro was my favorite gaming laptop of last year. I loved its keyboard, its 16-inch QHD 16:10 aspect ratio display, and, of course, its powerful RTX 3070 GPU. What I […]
Drummer and composer Sarathy Korwar has made a career of unifying unexpected collaborators. His 2016 debut album, Day to Day, featured the folk music of the Sidi community from rural Gujarat, mixing west African rhythms […]
With a new movie version of Stephen King’s Firestarter just arriving and a third adaptation of his novel Salem’s Lot on the way, it’s worth wondering whether creators will ever run out of King material […]
Were a trend expert to examine the fortnight’s big gig listings, they might be forgiven for assuming that we’re in the midst of an early 2000s revival. My Chemical Romance are back and playing vast […]
In a world full of reboots and crossovers, the Disney Plus live-action movie Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers is a refreshing antidote. Yes, it’s something of a reboot and something a crossover. But against all […]
If you asked my friends to define me, “sporadic” would fall in their description. I’m a spur-of-the-moment kind of gal, and if I’m dressed and ready, I’m game for anything. This results in a lot […]
Are we in a golden age of post-Lost puzzle-box shows? Spoiler alert: No, certainly not, and the proof is Lost still being the standard reference point for elaborate, weird-fiction soap operas nearly two decades after […]
World War II thriller ‘Operation Mincemeat’ and Rebel Wilson comedy ‘Senior Year’ hit Netflix and other movies to watch this weekend. Share This Article
Let’s start by stating the obvious: It’s far too soon to have a fully-formed, rock solid opinion about an album as complex as Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. Kendrick fills his songs […]
“I choose me, I’m sorry.” The last five words on Kendrick Lamar‘s Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers hit the hardest for anyone who “did the work,” as trained and untrained therapists like to say. […]
How much you enjoy The Essex Serpent, an Apple TV Plus adaptation of Sarah Perry’s 2016 novel, might depend on how much you enjoy seeing Tom Hiddleston brooding in a misty field while wearing cozy […]
Under an ominous sky, two estranged siblings struggle to reconcile in “Montana Story,” the latest drama from writing and directing duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel (“What Maisie Knew”). The slow-revealing and vividly sorrowful two-hander […]
As with any side-project or solo album by a member of a celebrated band, the first question prompted by the Smile’s debut is: why? There are plenty of reasonable stock answers: an opportunity to do […]
At the eighth annual Broccoli City Festival in Washington, D.C. this past weekend, Wale brought out local artists like Big Flock, Lightshow, Moneymarr, VISH and more to stand with him during his performance. In that […]
The Weekender Bag ($98) is the first travel bag that Béis created and instantly became a bestseller. It’s chic and functional, something that’s quite rare in the luggage world. Founded by Shay Mitchell, whose Instagram […]
Soft Cell: *Happiness Not Included album cover Forty-one years since their debut album, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, and 20 since their last album, 2002’s underwhelming Cruelty Without Beauty, Soft Cell return with an album that makes […]
“This is not a record store,” quips Emily Kokal, surveying the crowd. As artists strive to shift copies, in-store album launch shows have become something of an obligation; a short showcase of new wares generally […]
Save for a festival performance at Download 2019, this is Tool’s first UK date in almost 15 years. Though time has not softened frontman Maynard James Keenan: “If grandpa can stand up and dance around […]
Most of Marvel Studios’ movies are meant to be at least somewhat accessible regardless of how much familiarity one has with the larger MCU or the comics a film is loosely based on. To a […]
Narrated by Alec Baldwin, filmmaker Anthony Baxter’s documentary “Flint: Who Can You Trust?” investigates contaminated-water crisis in Flint, Mich. Share This Article