In real life, 2025 has been a chaotic year. We've navigated the beginning of a divisive presidential term, the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, witnessed a pope from Chicago get elected, a ...

Fourteen years ago, Emily Nussbaum, one of my esteemed predecessors in the TV-critic chair, notoriously titled her Top Ten list “I Hate Top Ten Lists.” I’ve seldom felt the same. I’m not much of a ...

Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles wi... Daniel Reynolds is the editor-in-chief of Out and ...

Many of the year’s best series seemed to be in conversation with one another, including “Severance,” “The Pitt,” “Andor,” “Pluribus,” “The Lowdown” and others. By James Poniewozik and Mike Hale James ...

On the first of two sold-out nights at Belly Up, The English Beat’s Dave Wakeling invited the crowd to forget the worries of the world for a while.

TROY — In advance of the band’s participation in an international blues competition in January in Memphis, Tennessee, the Capital Region Blues Network will present the Amy Ryan Band at the Hangar on ...

In cultural criticism, every year ends the same way—with a deluge of top 10 lists for every imaginable art form, as though music and literature and film and TV and theater and dance all produce ...

A spokesperson for the Church of Satan has emphatically denied that there was anything Satanic about the opening weekend of Zac Brown Band's Love & Fear residency at The Sphere in Las Vegas. The ...

Kingsley Reeves III brings a pared down lineup of his party band Aliqua to this no-cover dive bar gig at The Bends where ...

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During a dinner event for his ballroom donors at the White House several weeks ago in mid-October, Donald Trump bragged about his "landslide" victory in the 2024 election. Trump stated that he beat ...