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As more Americans go so hungry that shoplifting of food is on the rise, the president is about to let his Farmers to Families program lapse on December 31. That program has supplied food to needy families during the Covid-19 pandemic, but some states are already running out of funding …

On a Thursday in mid-November, Kelli Eaves and Whitney Fang loaded up their van and set out across the country. Driving through the night, they left Dallas, Texas, for Brooklyn, New York. This wasn’t an average road trip, and that’s not just because we’re in the midst of a pandemic. …

When news finally arrived last Saturday morning that Joseph R. Biden Jr. had been elected the 46th president of the United States, here is a non-exhaustive list of the things I wanted to do, in no particular order: Run out to the street with fists pumping, dance a jig, bang …

Tina Fey will host One Night Only: The Best of Broadway, a special airing on December 10th via NBC. The two-hour special will feature Broadway’s shows taking over New York City with performances by the cast of Chicago, Jagged Little Pill, Mean Girls, Rent, Ain’t Too Proud — The Life …

Paul Redding, CEO of the independent record company Beggars Group, plans to swim the English Channel to raise £200,000 (about $263,000) for two music-related charities: the PRS Foundation in the United Kingdom and the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund in the United States. Redding plans to embark on his epic swim …

F Is for Family, Season Four The animated comedy’s new season promises plenty of Lamaze classes, brawls on the hockey rink, and a lifetime’s worth of family resentment. As Frank Murphy (voiced by Bill Burr) prepares for the birth of his fourth child, he’s confronted by the return of his …

Millions of listeners have been coping with the loneliness, moral fatigue, and existential boredom of a global pandemic to the beat of Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage,” so many that the song took the top spot on the RS 100. Yet overall, Americans have been seeking solace not in synthetic beats, …

On Monday night, Billy Joel was one of the few faces lingering in the otherwise largely deserted Times Square. His face appeared high in the sky, beamed onto 12 giant digital billboards in the famously chaotic midtown Manhattan neighborhood. It simultaneously beamed into TVs and internet livestreams as part of …

Magazine making is an intensely collaborative effort among writers, editors, researchers, designers, and photographers — yet in March, and now into April, we, like many Americans, were forced to work in isolation, communicating over phone, email, Slack and Zoom, as we adapt to this terrifying, temporary new global reality. As …

The tragic news that songwriter-producer Adam Schlesinger died of COVID-19 complications at the age of 52 caused an outpouring of grief and a renewed appreciation for his vast body of work. And although many fans remembered the music he made with his band Fountains of Wayne or his songs for …