Arts & Culture
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What’s Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2023? Hint: Be true to yourself
In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the Merriam-Webster word of the year ... -
Eating less meat would be good for the Earth. Small nudges can change behavior
Preston Cabral eats meat nearly every day at home, but his favorite meals at school are served on “Meatless Mondays” and “Vegan Fridays.” “Today ... -
A curious South African sea snail is a prized dish in Asia – that has meant a trail of destruction
Nearly every house in Hawston has a boat in its yard, sometimes two. It takes a moment to realize many are out of action, ... -
How growing interest in Formula One is felt across the music world
Beyond the engineering, the athleticism, the speed, the luxury — fans love the sound of Formula One. The fierce rhythms of a V6 turbocharged ... -
Sketchbooks on display in NYC show whimsy, humor, determination
He was a giant of 20th-century art, but that doesn’t mean Pablo Picasso needed a big canvas. Matchbook covers, postcards, restaurant napkins — they ... -
Classes on celebrities like Taylor Swift and Rick Ross are engaging a new generation of law students
A South Dakota law professor typically teaches about dense topics like torts and natural resources. But next semester, he and his fearless students are ... -
Lack of affordable housing in Los Angeles’ Venice Beach neighborhood inspires activism and art
As more and more of her friends and neighbors found themselves priced out of rental units in Venice Beach, Judy Branfman began photographing the ... -
In Benin, Voodoo’s birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred
For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed ... -
What’s in a game? ‘Dear England’ probes the nation through the lens of its soccer team
Outside of families, few relationships are as intense as those between sports teams and their fans. In the case of England’s bond with its ... -
Macau: Beyond casinos and European landmark replicas
A few weeks ago, two leading Irish academics visited me after attending a large international conference in nearby Macau. Macau hosted the previous edition ... -
Madonna’s Celebration Tour kicks off in London after health scare
Madonna kicked off her career-spanning Celebration Tour at London’s O2 Arena on Saturday night (yesterday, Macau time), marking her first performance since suffering what ... -
An app shows how ancient Greek sites looked thousands of years ago
Tourists at the Acropolis this holiday season can witness the resolution of one of the world’s most heated debates on cultural heritage. All they ... -
Many powerful leaders skipped UNGA, creating space for emerging voices to rise
Togo’s foreign minister wasn’t having any of it. He talked of an accelerating “African awakening,” of a resolve to “fight our own battles,” of ... -
Taylor Swift is a fan of Travis Kelce and suddenly, so is everyone else
Taylor Swift’s trip to watch the Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce play football on Sunday didn’t just have the internet talking nonstop. Following the 12-time ... -
A look inside the walls of the 11th-century Marco Simone castle
First came the castle. Then the golf course. The nearly 300,000 fans descending on the Marco Simone club for the Ryder Cup this week ... -
AI won’t be replacing your priest, minister, rabbi or imam any time soon
Early in the summer of 2023, robots projected on a screen delivered sermons to about 300 congregants at St. Paul’s Church in Bavaria, Germany. ... -
Lahaina’s fire-stricken Filipino residents are key to tourism and local culture. Will they stay?
Ambulance and fire truck sirens wailed outside as Elsie Rosales stripped linens from king-sized mattresses at a beachfront resort in Lahaina. She tried to ... -
Thailand’s LGBTQ+ community draws tourists from China looking to be themselves
Xinyu Wen traveled to Thailand in June, planning a two-week vacation around Bangkok’s Pride parade. Instead, the 28-year-old stayed a month and a half, ... -
Alexander Payne makes ‘em like they used to: Fall Movie Preview
The great films of the 1970s have long loomed in the imagination of filmmakers raised during one of the most fertile periods of American ... -
Students transform their drab dorm rooms into comfy living spaces
From $300 studded headboards and $100 coffee table books to custom-made cabinets to disguise your mini-fridge, students are spending big bucks to decorate their ... -
The Rolling Stones will release their first studio album in 18 years, ‘Hackney Diamonds’
The wait is over: The Rolling Stones will soon release new music. This week, the band announced they are preparing to release their first album of ... -
Pope heads to Mongolia to minister to its few Catholics and complete centuries-old East-West mission
When Pope Francis travels to Mongolia this week, he will in some ways be completing a mission begun by the 13th-century Pope Innocent IV, ... -
Son stolen at birth hugs Chilean mother for first time in 42 years
Hola, mamá.” What seems like an unremarkable greeting between mother and son was in this case anything but. Forty-two years ago, hospital workers took ... -
In the basketball-crazed Philippines, the World Cup will be a shining moment
Considering that about 110 million people live in the Philippines, it’s not feasible to expect that they all would be basketball fans. “But it’s ... -
What Musk and Zuckerberg’s canceled cage match says about masculine anxiety
While the cage fight between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk seems to be on hold, if these men do ever ... -
Three ways AI is transforming music
Each fall, I begin my course on the intersection of music and artificial intelligence by asking my students if they’re concerned about AI’s role ... -
Summer camp in California gives Jewish children of color a haven to be different together
One camper, from Oakland, California, has a white Jewish mother and a father who is Black and Muslim. Another was adopted in Uganda by ... -
Hip-hop was born in the Bronx amid poverty, despair. 50 years later, there’s pride, still hard times
Before it was a global movement, it was simply an expression of life and struggle: a culture that was synonymous with hardship and suffering, ... -
William Friedkin, Oscar-winning director of ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The French Connection,’ dead at 87
William Friedkin, the generation-defining director who brought a visceral realism to 1970s hits “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist” and was quickly anointed one ... -
Governments are gathering to talk about the Amazon rainforest. Why is it so important to protect?
The Amazon rainforest is a massive area, twice the size of India and sprawling across eight countries and one territory. It’s a crucial carbon ... -
As summer breezes fade, sweltering Europeans give air con a skeptical embrace
During Europe’s heat wave last month, Floriana Peroni’s vintage clothing store had to close for a week. A truck of rented generators blocked her ... -
The Crimean Peninsula is both a playground and a battleground, coveted by Ukraine and Russia
Its balmy beaches have been vacation spots for Russian czars and Soviet general secretaries. It has hosted history-shaking meetings of world leaders and boasts ... -
Native ethnic groups promote their heritage during Oaxaca’s biggest cultural festival
Leticia Santiago carries her ancestral heritage wherever she goes. Every time she addresses the crowds during the Guelaguetza, the biggest cultural event in southwestern ... -
Barbie mania sweeps Latin America, but sometimes takes on a macabre tone
Latin America is taking Barbie mania to an extreme, with everything from pink-colored tacos and pastries, commercial planes bearing the Barbie logo, political ads ... -
Mammals may have hunted down dinosaurs for dinner, rare fossil suggests
An unusual find in China suggests some early mammals may have hunted dinosaur for dinner. The fossil shows a badgerlike creature chomping down on ...
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