A lifelong crocheter turns fiber art into social commentary—and proves that handmade gifts can carry more meaning than meets the eye

A 72-year-old woman shares her 14-month Mounjaro and metformin journey: 90 pounds lost, chronic kidney disease reversed, and knee pain gone – without surgery.

Turn on HBO’s newest Game of Thrones spinoff, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and you might be forgiven for thinking you’ve stumbled not into Westeros, but into an old-fashioned television Western. Episode one begins with a burial. A very tall young man, the squire Dunk (Peter Claffey), lays his master, …

Few characters in modern fantasy television have burned as brightly—or fallen as hard—as Once Upon a Time’s Rumplestiltskin. When the ABC fantasy series debuted in 2011, the show introduced a sorcerer so layered, so unpredictable, so alchemically compelling that he virtually redefined what a fairy-tale villain could be. Part of …

Robin Hood has returned to our screens With a brand-new series from the streaming service MGM+. Once again, the arrows rain down from Sherwood Forest. This one is a grounded, origin-tilted retelling set in the tense years after the Norman Conquest. So what is it about the legend of Sir …

Labor Day weekend, Children’s Fantasy Weekend, a basket of sunscreen and hand wipes, four adults (one costumed as lovely wench–me) and three very excited small humans in costumes, crowns and elf ears. That was our merry crew bound for the Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival in West Newton, Pennsylvania, but a forty-minute …

Stephen Colbert is out. Jimmy Kimmel is off the air. And the FCC Chairman has offered the country a chilling choice: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”

As the federal government is rapidly being hollowed out and restructured under his second term, the pot is on full boil.

It’s been a while since I last shared an update on my semaglutide journey. I first began writing about it back in January 2024, when I took my first steps into the unknown. With a starting weight of 250 pounds, I’ve updated a couple of times along the way, but …

If Musk were just an ordinary individual, his actions might be dismissed as a lapse in judgment or a poorly thought-out gesture. But Elon Musk is far from ordinary. Here's why his actions demand scrutiny.