The sizzle of frying potatoes and the scent of fresh coffee and grease. Gleaming chrome fixtures and brightly colored booths.

For David McWilliams, an Irish economist, podcaster and chastened former central banker, monetary economics is a branch of humane letters. For every nod to John Maynard Keynes he makes 2½ to James ...

Gleefully disgusting and apt to trouble even the sturdiest digestive tract, “Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh” represents comedian Sarah Sherman not only predictably unhinged, but unchained: Fans of ...

NBC is airing its annual “Year in Review” special on Thursday, Dec. 11, at 9:15 p.m. ET, offering a look back at the entertainment stories and headline-making moments that shaped 2025. The special is ...

You can’t go to every concert, especially those that happened decades before you were born. But the best live albums can take you there. At a certain point, every album used to be a live album, at ...

The House on Wednesday voted to reopen the federal government — ending the record-long shutdown and sending the measure to President Trump’s desk for his signature. Lawmakers voted 222-209 on the ...

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

It’s no small feat to pack a room as large as Sting did on the first of two back-to-back nights at Hard Rock Live. But when you see his 3.0 Tour is named so because he will be playing as a trio backed ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and GOP leaders will address reporters Wednesday morning as the government shutdown hit 36 days — making it the longest lapse in funding in U.S. history. The “clean” ...

Radiohead are in a strange spot. This is the first time, since their debut album over 30 years ago, that the group is touring with no new or recent material behind them. A band that has been ...

Noam Weissman. Photos courtesy of OpenDor Media. “Unpacking Israeli History,” a popular podcast from OpenDor Media that’s hosted by self-confessed history nerd Dr. Noam Weissman, is making the last ...

Apollo Frequencies is a series exploring sounds that seem to come from another world. In this week’s edition, Raphael Helfand attends an Autechre show in the not-so-pitch black. Dark, pragmatically ...