Rolling Stone
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Jon Dolan
– Dec 19, 2012, 11:40 AM
If there's one thing the centuries-old tradition of holiday music has always lacked, it's irony. Weezer bring it by the sleigh-load on this six-song EP. Hilariously, they choose only the most Jesus-y tunes to bash out in their vaunted flat-lined…
PIERRE, SD—In an effort to attract visitors to a state that is home to some of the worst Covid-19 infection rates in the world, South Dakota officials launched a new tourism initiative Friday that will be centered around the slogan…
The New Yorker
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Amanda Petrusich
– Nov 27, 3:00 AM
It seems safe to assume that 2020 is a year that not many of us are eager to linger over. At the start of the pandemic, there were vague hopes of an artistic flourishing—that hoary and ultimately specious “Shakespeare wrote…
A mysterious metal monolith discovered last week in the desert in the US state of Utah has disappeared, officials say. Utah's Bureau of Land Management said it had seen credible reports the object had been removed 'by an unknown party'. Social…
The New York Times
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Christopher Payne
– Nov 28, 2:00 AM
When a guitarist plucks a guitar string, it starts to quiver back and forth — setting off a cascade of vibrations along the length of the instrument. The vibrations travel down the strings to the top of the guitar, called the soundboard, and…
Like any kind of collector, record enthusiasts tend to be obsessive about the object of their desire. That's good news for gift-givers hunting for the best vinyl accessories for their friends and family. While buying records for anyone you don't…
There are plenty of innovations since the '80s that we can be grateful for, but that doesn't change the fact that there are certain things we got right the first time and never needed a whole lot of meddling. The sacred, lost art of double……
The New York Times
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Will Wilkinson
– Nov 27, 2:00 AM
President Trump's disastrous mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic probably cost him re-election. Yet it seems mind-boggling that he still won more votes than any incumbent president in American history despite his dereliction of responsibility…
