Month: January 2026

Though its popularity is growing, only a small percentage of Americans have personally experienced homeschooling. In his debut memoir, Homeschooled, novelist Stefan Merrill Block (The Storm at the Door, Oliver Loving) offers a glimpse into one boy’s unusual encounter with that process, but at its heart, it’s a revealing and deeply empathetic portrait of a
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The Gossip Girl alum detailed his experience as a child actor with what he described as “body dysmorphia.” “I know that I hated my body,” Penn told The Guardian in April 2025, “and simply wanted a different one.” In response to the weight he gained following his parents’ divorce, he added,  “There was just a period where,
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Winter does something funny to a man. The days get shorter. The air gets sharper. And suddenly you’re reaching for your best jacket, your best boots… and if you’re smart, your best fragrance. Because in cold weather, scent doesn’t just “sit” on you — it follows you. I learned this years ago at a holiday
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Danny L Harle: Cerulean February 13 On his first album in five years, Danny L Harle continues to plunder pure aural ecstasies of dancefloors past and drag them kicking and screaming into the 2020s. In a collider of trance, progressive techno, and various rave tendrils, the British producer draws guests including Caroline Polachek, PinkPantheress, Oklou,
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Stranger Things, It, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, and Game of Thrones. In the end, Stranger Things remained what it has always been, a love letter to outcasts and fans of genre fiction. The show that once ignited Easter egg obsessives with a The Thing poster hanging in
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After completing South Korea’s mandatory military service, K-pop juggernauts BTS are now gearing up to release their first new album in six years. The as-yet-untitled LP is due out March 20 via Big Hit Entertainment. It’s their fifth studio album overall and follows 2020’s Be. What’s more, BTS are also teasing a 2026 world tour,
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Stranger Things co-creator Matt Duffer is addressing the intense backlash surrounding the Netflix series’ finale, admitting he regrets answering fan questions so soon after the show ended. Premiering in 2016, Stranger Things became one of Netflix’s most successful original series, blending ’80s nostalgia with sci-fi horror as it followed a group of kids in Hawkins,
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