The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

In the spring of 2005, common toads in Germany and Denmark began dying in a violent and highly unusual way. Witnesses observed the animals swelling, twitching, and then rupturing, scattering organs ...

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 ...

Asmodee, distributor of many of the world's biggest board games, has acquired a 45% stake in Exploding Kittens Inc. Asmodee previously bought a 55% majority stake in the producer of party games back ...

The admirable little red-bellied toad (Melanophryniscus admirabilis). Image by Thamys Trindade. The admirable little red-bellied toad is the size of a thumb, but it has achieved giant feats: In 2014, ...

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Memphis filmmaker Craig Brewer's new movie, "Song Sung Blue," opens in theaters in Memphis and across the U.S. and Canada on Christmas Day. Here's some information that might be helpful or interesting ...

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