The fifth CFP rankings of 2025 have arrived, giving us the sharpest look yet at how the 12-team playoff race is taking shape. With Selection Sunday just five days away, contenders are making their ...

(KTLA) — Pop culturally, the year tends to wrap up by early December, at least with music. Few artists want to drop anything they care about amid the holiday rush and the domination of holiday music.

It seems like it’s going to be one award after another this season for Paul Thomas Anderson. Warner Bros’ action epic “One Battle After Another” was named the best film of the year by the New York ...

'One Battle After Another' and Jafar Panahi Warner Bros./Josh Telles for Deadline Close to four hours after closing the doors to vote, the New York Film Critics Circle on Tuesday gave its Best Film ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

Tennessee’s Seventh District was created to be safely Republican, but in recent special elections across the country Democrats have done significantly better than they did in 2024. By Christine Zhang ...

New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and lows. In an era of post-podcast-boom funding cuts, two independent projects have bravely voyaged toward the cutting edge of audio, fostering both ...

It’s British style’s biggest night! On Dec. 1, celebrities including Sharon Stone, Cate Blanchett, Lisa Rinna and FKA Twigs arrived at London’s Royal Albert Hall for the Fashion Awards 2025, with ...

Questions about the validity of President Donald Trump's proposed $2,000 tariff dividend checks continue to circulate on social media. Although the stimulus checks face several obstacles, members of ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

What a year it’s been for television. The small screen has dominated the pop-culture conversation in 2025, with watercooler shows like The Pitt, Severance, and Adolescence proving that people still ...