Ever wondered about the physics of mosh pits and circle pits? If so, you're not alone, because earlier this week, Max Sebastian, a subscriber to the podcast The Rest Is Science, posed a question for ...

An abiding commitment to customers. The ability to execute. Exceptional service. These are some of the elements that unite the winners of TCB’s Best of Business awards. These 100-plus winners and ...

A movie that makes it onto The A.V. Club‘s best films of the year list probably also includes at least one of the best scenes of the year. But a film also doesn’t need to be an indisputable success as ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood history. This climate of consolidation and capitulation gave a ...

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

Owen Cooper in "Adolescence," Skye P. Marshall in "Matlock" and Noah Wyle in "The Pitt" (Netflix, CBS, HBO) The TV landscape of today may be smaller than a few years ago, but its ability to captivate ...

What does good rapping sound like in 2025? It depends on who you ask. It’s no secret that hip-hop is more splintered than ever, with different pockets and intersections thriving in their own ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Metacritic has unveiled its annual rankings of the best albums of the year, highlighting a diverse and genre-spanning collection of critically acclaimed releases. From ...

Reader in 18th-century Literature and Director of Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature, Queen Mary University of London Reading is very subjective, but one thing most book lovers can agree on ...

Podcasting has suffered a series of blows over the past few years: industry layoffs, the rise of AI-produced slop, and, perhaps most existentially, a growing focus on video platforms. But 2025 ...

Of everything I saw on TV in 2025, the one show I thought was the very best, and has haunted me ever since, was the four-part Netflix drama Adolescence. It's the story of a young teen accused of ...