‘It’s Very Simple’: 50 Years of Making Avant-Garde Music Sound Effortless
When Pierre Boulez was rehearsing contemporary music with Ensemble Intercontemporain, a group he founded, he had an unnerving habit. The...
For 130 years, we’ve been rewriting Lizzie Borden’s motive
Any self-respecting student of history or women’s studies or schoolyard chants knows that Lizzie Borden murdered her mother by giving...
New Trump comments ‘blindsided’ allies and led to flurry of panicked calls: report
Oil executives thought they’d beaten back a diesel export ban. Then President Donald Trump opened his mouth at the United...
New Matrix, Meet the Old Matrix
At a fundamental level, artificial intelligence leaders, evangelists and their allies want you to believe that their novel technology demands...
This Penis-Enlargement Trend Involves Shopping Bags, Weights, and a Lot of Pain
The internet has now reached the point where men are hanging weighted shopping bags from their penises in hopes of...
I thought, ‘What’s more valuable than the family dog?’ That question became a company with nearly $100M in sales.
Ken Ehrman created the Halo collar. Courtesy of Ken EhrmanKen Ehrman created a GPS dog fence after his niece's dog...
Hero pilot Sully Sullenberger reveals his biggest fear of Alzheimer’s battle
Hero pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger revealed Wednesday that his biggest fear about his Alzheimer’s Disease is that it has left...
This visit offered an early peek at the 2028 Democratic presidential primary
A sold-out crowd for Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear in Washington rose in applause after he hinted again he is eyeing...
CNN anchor aghast as Trump falls into ‘deep depths of hell’: ‘You run out of adjectives’
CNN anchor John Berman was left searching for words Wednesday morning after chief data analyst Harry Enten walked through President...
The week’s bestselling books, September 27
Hardcover fiction 1. Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf: $32) A woman searches for answers across two timelines...
