I posted this picture of my jade plant flowering on BS and a lot of people expressed surprise that jade plants flower, and I ...

Al Green released a soulful cover of R.E.M’s “Everybody Hurts,” and it whips. “I could really feel the heaviness of the song, and I wanted to inject a little touch of hope and light into it. There’s ...

Vanity Fair has done a video interview Billie Eilish every year since she was a relatively unknown 15-year-old ...

Writer Karen Attiah recently wrote about the pleasure of perusing other people’s personal libraries and then asked her fol ...

The only Christmas music I want to hear this year is The Muppets doing Carol of the Bells. Beaker, Animal, and the Swedish ...

I didn’t know that the whereabouts of one of Vincent van Gogh’s most important works, a 1890 painting called “ ...

First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 ( Bookshop) is a book by Milton Mayer for which he interviewed ten ordinary Germans about their experiences living in Nazi ...

As you know, I am passionate about sweet things. All different kinds. So imagine my dismay back in 2017 when I discovered the ...

During the pandemic, Billie Eilish did a Tiny Desk Concert at home amidst a very faithful recreation of the NPR office. Last ...

Marisa Kabas correctly asserts that Substack’s latest announcement reaffirms their status as a publication (and not a platfo ...

Speaking of speaking of Tiny Desk Concerts here are two recent good ones. (Eep, wait, they’re all really good. What if any p ...

At an event last month marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker, actor Bryan Cranst ...