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In honor of the sudden, baffling wave of 2016 nostalgia, we’re taking the greatest movie ever made to task. Doink-de-doink!

The guitarist, singer and songwriter, who died at 78, cut his own path among his elders in the Grateful Dead, and beyond. By David Browne As the youngest member of the original Grateful Dead, Bob Weir ...

News organizations including the New York Times and the Washington Post deliberately held back reporting on the US raid that captured Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, a decision Secretary of State ...

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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 1961, Michael Rockefeller went missing on the island of New Guinea. The 23-year-old heir to the Rockefeller fortune was gone without a trace. While on a trip to document native New Guinea tribes ...

Sixty-five years ago today, Patsy Cline released a single that would become a major hit while she was in the hospital.

Glenn Hall, who backstopped the Chicago Blackhawks to the 1961 Stanley Cup and was one of the most dominant — and innovative — goaltenders in NHL history, has died. He was 94. A league historian in ...