The 30 best films to watch on BFI Player right nowFor cinephiles in 2022, finding the right film to watch isn't so much a chore as a series of endless possibilities: from Criterion Collection, to Curzon, to Mubi, to BFI Player, there are now so many places to find seriously good old and new films.
Why the Bloomsbury group should be your new gardening inspirationThe enduring appeal and influence of Bloomsbury interiors has been well charted, along with the group’s originality, and the freedom of expression they espoused.
Opinion: For the greats of the jazz age, life on the road was perilous as well as glamorousFor traveling musicians, there are two versions of life on the road.
Why Are So Many Mexican Novels Set in Cantinas?Some decades ago, when Mexico was still ruled by an authoritarian regime, one or another president remarked that the only two establishments one could be sure to find in every town in the country, no matter how small or remote, were a Catholic parish and an outpost of the state-owned store that sold
‘That open tweet is the canvas’: behind the highs, lows and memes of Black TwitterHow to explain Black Twitter? It’s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag per se.
AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the <em>Other</em> ChatGPT for MusicJust last year, many experts believed an AI model capable of generating complete, high-fidelity songs from text prompts wouldn’t arrive anytime soon, but now, an arms race is on between competing music-making models that do just that.
Big Update To Google’s Ranking Drop DocumentationGoogle updated their guidance with five changes on how to debug ranking drops. The new version contains over 400 more words that address small and large ranking drops. There’s room to quibble about some of the changes but overall the revised version is a step up from what it replaced.
Bouncing Around the Room: Scenes From a 4/20 Phish Sesh at SphereClouds shaped like seahorses; psychedelic exploding trees; the earth’s biggest screen in your face. Phish at Sphere on 4/20 was a feast for the senses—and a celebration of the four friends we’ve made along the way.
How (Not) To GrieveThe homie Kev was kind, smiled easy, and spoke so soft sometimes I had to lean in to hear him. The homie Kev was cock-diesel and fearless on the football field. The homie Kev took the rap for me without a blink when my grandmother caught me packaging bunk weed in my bedroom.
Come for the Torture, Stay for the Poetry: This Might Be Taylor Swift’s Most Personal Album YetPoets only want love if it’s torture. And when the poet is Taylor Swift, you always have to figure love and torture are never more than a few verses apart. Taylor became a legend as the poet laureate of teen romance.
Giorgia Meloni and Ursula von der Leyen, the double act that is steering the EU ever rightwardsIt’s rare that an Italian prime minister tops the table in Europe.
20 Delightful Idioms From Around the WorldIdioms are by definition non-literal, but native speakers of a language rarely think about just how nonsensical these sayings can sometimes be.
What You See in the DarkI have a few things I want to get off my chest, before the playoffs start. I’m a relatively private person, and it’s not the most natural thing for me to talk about myself if I don’t really know you.
Chris Hemsworth on Fear, Love, ‘Furiosa’—And Naming a Son After a Brad Pitt CharacterChris Hemsworth rides up on a horse, reins in one hand, face shining in the Australian sun. We’re on a pristine stretch of beach near his house. Our last gallop took me by surprise, my feet flapping wildly out of their stirrups, and Hemsworth wants to make sure I feel safe.
Where Have All the Second-Round Quarterbacks Gone?A decade ago, prospects like Michael Penix Jr. and Bo Nix would have been day-two draft picks. Now, though, the quarterback market has inflated to a point that the second-round QB is going extinct—and teams are learning the wrong drafting lessons.