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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Dolly Parton’s first-ever rock album, “Rockstar,” released in November, opens with a declaration. “I’m gonna be in rock and roll whether you two like it or not!” an imagined teen-age Parton…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Boulder, Colorado, where I was born and raised, is sometimes called the fittest city in America. Septuagenarians go skiing before work, high-school delinquents hang out at the climbing gym, and people…

The dedication of a pillow marks the passing of an American—something. Credit: FredP It is a melancholy thing to reread the speech that George H.W. Bush gave in September 1990 at the laying of Washington National Cathedral’s final stone. “We…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Irish singer and songwriter Shane MacGowan, a founding member of the punk-rock band the Pogues, died on Thursday, of pneumonia, at age sixty-five. It might sound as though he went…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In “Menu-Plaisirs—Les Troisgros,” Frederick Wiseman’s four-hour documentary about a great French restaurant, playing at Film Forum, there is a kitchen like none that I’ve ever seen: a large rectangular room with…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Though a year in movie releases is a small and arbitrary sample size, it’s nonetheless clear that, at the moment, the art of cinema is in good shape in the United…

No number of internal task forces is going to cure Meta’s propensity to harm. Credit: Michael Mandiberg I don’t often agree with the editorial board at the Washington Post, but I did last week. An editorial over the holiday weekend…

As college football approaches playoff season, merit and committee opinion seem at odds. Credit: chensiyuan Another exciting college football season is in its stretch run, and on Sunday a 13-member “expert” committee will decree which teams will receive the four…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Long before Bradley Cooper made his big screen début in “Wet Hot American Summer,” and before he played Phil Wenneck, the wise-ass Jägermeister-swilling schoolteacher in “The Hangover,” he wanted to direct.…

The latest suicide statistics are a report from the void. Credit: By Vincent van Gogh – scan by user:Mefusbren69 Per provisional numbers released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics, the United States hit a suicide record in 2022:…