Snap, crackle and pop music
Decades ago, singles by everyone from The Monkees to The Jackson 5 were printed on cereal boxes as cutout prizes. Now, a dedicated few are working to save these cardboard treasures from extinction.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Your World or Mine'
The clock strikes 6 a.m., and I’ve watched Paul sleep for nearly an hour. It’s the only time he seems helpless, incapable of hurting me. Before I parachuted into his Los Angeles world from Minneapolis for the weekend, he insisted on keeping things casual to make long-distance work. But that …
Wholesome, Noble Superheroes Are Back. (A Wholesome, Noble World Is Not.)
Around the time Joaquin Phoenix dabbed red, white and blue clown makeup over his face in the movie “Joker” — the film’s attempt, perhaps, to say something bleakly profound about America’s brokenness — we reached the peak of a metamorphosis that superhero movies had been undergoing for a while. They …
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Ziad Rahbani, Composer Who Defined a Tragic Era in Lebanon, Dies at 69A son of Lebanese musical icons, he became one himself, with satirical critiques of his country’s dysfunction that melded Arab and Western music.By Vivian Yee, Hwaida Saad and Dayana Iwaza A son of Lebanese musical icons, he became …
Grand Canyon Fossils Offer Glimpse Into When Complex Life Appeared
Jult 23, 2025 "Tiny bits of creatures that lived more than half a billion years ago are offering new insights into a critical turning point in the history of life on Earth."
Seabed-Mining Firm Faces Legal Questions Over Controversial Trump Policy
July 21, 2025 "After Trump pledged to open international waters to mining, The Metals Company sought U.S. permits. But other countries are raising legal concerns."
Syrian Government Evacuates Bedouin Families After Deadly Clashes
As part of a cease-fire agreement to return calm to the southern Syrian province of Sweida, the Syrian government said it was evacuating hundreds of Bedouin tribal families from the area on Monday after more than a week of deadly clashes.Also on Monday, the government said it had deployed security …
Health Insurers Are Denying More Drug Claims, Data Shows
July 18, 2025 "Prescription drug denials by private insurers in the United States jumped 25 percent from 2016 to 2023, according to a new analysis of more than four billion claims, a practice that has contributed to rising public outrage about the nation’s private health insurance system."
A Venerable AIDS Activist Returns to Battle
July 14, 2025 "The activists gathered on the steps of the cathedral in the center of Cape Town. Most were older women, faces lined beneath their head wraps."
Judge Fines Lawyers for MyPillow Founder for Error-Filled Court Filing
July 8, 2025 "A federal judge has sent another message to lawyers who may be tempted to use generative artificial intelligence: Always check your work."
At Men’s Fashion Week, Hot Collections (and Temperatures)
July 2, 2025 "It was hot out there at Paris men’s fashion week, where air conditioning is simply not done. Oppressive and banal, the heat was the great equalizer."
It Came From Outside Our Solar System, and It Looks Like a Comet
July 2, 2025 "For only the third time, astronomers have found something passing through our solar system that came from outside the solar system."
The New York Times: Neil Sedaka Executed One of Pop’s Great Comebacks. Now, He Just Plays.
At 86, the singer and songwriter is seeing his albums reissued as he occasionally takes the stage to celebrate his decades-old resurrection.
Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Ocean Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log
June 25, 2025 "In 1947, against the best navigational advice, the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members set sail from Peru on a balsa wood raft to test his theory that ancient South American cultures could have reached Polynesia."
A Plan to Sell Federal Land Near This Colorado Town Looks Dead. Here’s Why.
June 24, 2025 "In the wealthy ski towns of Summit County, Colo., where affordable housing is so scarce that some waitresses and ski-lift workers sleep in parking lots, wide-open land is plentiful, as it is across the housing-starved Mountain West."
New Data Shows Just How Powerful the Next Weight-Loss Drugs May Be
June 21, 2025 "Doctors call the new weight-loss drugs revolutionary. Game-changing. Unprecedented. Soon, they may also call them obsolete."
Fifty Years After ‘Jaws,’ Shark Science Is Still Surfacing
June 21, 2025 "When Steven Spielberg’s famous mechanical shark, Bruce, first appeared onscreen in the summer of 1975, Chris Lowe thought it looked fake."
Regulators Approve a Twice-Yearly Shot to Prevent H.I.V. Infection
June 18, 2025 "The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a twice-yearly injection that provided a near-perfect shield against H.I.V. infection in clinical trials."
To Protest Budget Cuts, Young Scientists Try Letters to the Editor
June 16, 2025 "As a scientist, Erin Morrow’s focus is cerebral — literally. She studies the brain, investigating the interplay of memory and stress."
The New York Times: The Musical Mysteries Brian Wilson Left Behind
The Beach Boys mastermind has been the subject of pop scholarship and major boxed sets, but some corners of his oeuvre remain unreleased.
Lebanon Moves to Disarm Palestinian Groups, a Test Run for Hezbollah
Lebanon’s government will begin disarming the armed Palestinian factions in refugee camps on its territory in June, an important step toward its goal of bringing all weapons in the country under state control, a spokesman for the prime minister said on Friday.Disarming the Palestinian factions will be a trial run …
Lebanon Moves to Disarm Palestinian Groups, a Test Run for Hezbollah
Lebanon’s government will begin disarming the armed Palestinian factions in refugee camps on its territory in June, an important step toward its goal of bringing all weapons in the country under state control, a spokesman for the prime minister said on Friday.
How Grace Potter Lost (and Found) a Solo Album, and a New Life
The Grace Potter and the Nocturnals frontwoman made an LP with T Bone Burnett that got held. Sixteen years later, after a twisting tale of love and music, it’s arriving.
The New York Times: Christy Moore, Ireland’s Folk Music Legend, Is Still Writing History
Even though he just turned 80 and doesn’t leave the country, Moore finds himself at a surprising career peak, performing for generations of fans with an intense connection to his music.
He Spent $12,495 to Be Gene Simmons’s Roadie (and Got More Than Expected)
A father-son pair ponied up for the V.I.P. experience last week and got a glimpse behind the scenes of a rock ’n’ roll show, and into a notorious star’s heart.
About 80 Pro-Palestinian Activists Arrested in Columbia Library Takeover
About 80 pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested on Wednesday evening after occupying part of the main library on Columbia University’s campus in an attempt to rekindle the protest movement that swept the campus last spring, the police said Thursday morning.The protesters, wearing masks and kaffiyehs, had burst through a security gate …
Introducing a Times Fellow and Dow Jones News Fund Interns
"The Times Fellowship and the internship placements are part of a collection of programs that helps identify and develop early career journalists."
