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 “ ...

Then Comes The Body is a great short documentary from Jacob Krupnick about a Nigerian man who taught himself how to dance ballet ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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