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December 28, 2015
Ryan Kearney
Someone please check in on Rivers Cuomo and make sure he’s OK.
December 28, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
This 21-minute X-Files featurette will leave you wanting to believe.
December 28, 2015
Alex Shephard
Forget adult coloring books, adult connect-the-dots books are going to be all the rage in 2016.
December 28, 2015
Sarah Laskow
The Mystery of the Hamptons’ Vanishing Libertarian
Old Man McGumbus was a survivalist World War II vet who lived in a beach bunker on Shelter Island. Then one day, he disappeared.
December 28, 2015
Joseph P. Laycock
Why Are Exorcisms as Popular as Ever?
December 28, 2015
Elaine Teng
Japan, meet Mr. Babe.
December 28, 2015
Alex Shephard
RIP Meadowlark Lemon, the “clown prince” of the Harlem Globetrotters and the Buster Keaton of basketball.
December 28, 2015
MagazineLaura Marsh
The Radical History of 1960s Adult Coloring Books
These subversive coloring books ridiculed pill-popping executives, hipsters, communist-hunters, and conspiracy theorists.
December 28, 2015
Ellen Handler Spitz
The Irresistible Psychology of Fairy Tales
What can explain the recent explosion of interest in classic folk stories?
December 26, 2015
Alex Shephard
Barnes & Noble’s new strategy: Get people drunk.
December 26, 2015
Michelle Legro
Hey Disneyland, forget Star Wars, you can pry the Thunder Ranch petting zoo from my cold dead hands.
December 25, 2015
Alex Shephard
Today’s NBA games, ranked.
December 25, 2015
Carole Cusack
The Weirdest Christmas Traditions in the World
A religion professor explains the strangest holiday customs from the Netherlands to South Korea.
December 24, 2015
Tim Grierson
Joy: A Manic Cinderella Gets the Job Done
David O. Russell’s quirky hero proves that in his filmmaking, buoyant, messy exuberance has its limits.
December 24, 2015
Joe Perry
How the Nazis Co-opted Christmas
A history professor explores the ways Nazi symbols and rituals influenced Christmas celebrations in the Third Reich.
December 23, 2015
Esther Breger
All I want for Christmas is this New York Times correction.
December 23, 2015
Meaghan Murphy
Is this the ugliest museum sign in the country?
December 23, 2015
Suzy Khimm
The first rule of writing a Hollywood movie as a high-ranking U.S. government official is you can’t talk about writing a Hollywood movie as a high-ranking U.S. government official.
December 23, 2015
Sasha Belenky
Astronaut phones home from space, gets his parents’ answering machine.
December 23, 2015
Alex Shephard
The Beatles are coming to Spotify and Apple and even Tidal (but not Rdio because Rdio is dead).

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