The 100 Best Grateful Dead Songs
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Rock hollers, ballads, brain-melting electric jams, country-folk hoedowns, jazzy excursions, and more
The Grateful Dead are one of the great American adventures — an outlaw band from the psychedelic frontier of the Haight-Ashbury streets, doing everything their own way. The magic they made onstage every night, improvised without a net or a set list, was a freewheeling 30-year collaboration with their audience. That’s why the Dead’s music remains so fiercely alive, now more than ever. As Jerry Garcia told Rolling Stone in 1971, “We’re trying to guide ourselves into a place where we can become more music.”
Police and prosecution errors left proven sex offender free to murder two women in London
Catastrophic errors left a persistent and proven sex offender free before he murdered two women in London, it can be revealed.
On Friday, an Old Bailey jury found Simon Levy, 40, guilty of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo in March 2025 and Sheryl Wilkins five months later.
Cinerama Print Of ‘How The West Was Won’ To Star At Widescreen Weekend
The Pictureville Cinema in Bradford, UK, is the only public cinema in the world capable of screening three-strip Cinerama movies BFI 
The National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, UK, has announced that a rare three-strip Cinerama print of the 1968 classic How the West Was Won (1962), loaned from Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome, will be presented at its upcoming Widescreen Weekend festival. The annual showcase, which celebrates large-screen formats and cinema technologies, is running from 24–28 September 2026, with this year marking the festival’s thirtieth anniversary.
Gen Z Now Treats Claude And OpenAI Like Consumer Brands, But Trust Is Still An Issue
Claude’s Consideration score among U.S. Gen Z adults nearly doubled in the second quarter of 2026, climbing from 14.2% to 28.1% and landing the highest score of any brand in YouGov’s newest ranking. OpenAI more than doubled its own score too, jumping from 10.1% to 22.1%. If you check referral traffic and citation share every Monday and consider the AI question handled, this number measures something referral logs never will. Gen Z isn’t just using these products. A growing share of them is starting to think of Claude and OpenAI the way they think of a sneaker brand or a streaming service.
Netflix Finally Cancels A Show That Actually Deserves It
Squid Games. Cate Blanchett in episode 306 of Squid Games. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025 COURTESY OF NETFLIX
Netflix is well-known for often cancelling shows that it shouldn’t, but on rare occasions, it is justified in doing so. This time? It’s scrapping a bad-sounding project before it even has a chance to make it to air.
Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function
Airbnb might be taking slow steps to roll out AI features to its consumer-facing interface, but the company is rapidly adopting the tech to build product. Earlier this year, the company said AI is writing 60% of its code. In its latest earnings call, co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said AI is helping Airbnb create features a at rapid rate.
'Pricing Has Not Kept Pace With Inflation' — Take-Two Boss Insists Rockstar Got GTA 6 Standard and Ultimate Edition Price Points Right
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August 7, 2026
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I spent most of my 20s traveling all over the world. By 29, I was completely over it.
Alice Lemee
I grew up in New York during the era when high schoolers had green Student Metrocards and St. Marks was a grimy strip of dollar-pizza spots, underage tongue piercings, and cheap alcohol.
Ferrari Financial Results Point To A Resumption Of The Good Times
Ferrari Luce. The styling triggered much negative reaction when it was launched in May. Ferrari
Ferrari’s latest financial numbers point to an end to investor unease after it seemed the glory money-making days might be over for this purveyor of magnificent machines to the rich and famous.