A Ritz-Carlton hotel in California closed an entrance after a hummingbird made a nest on a door handle and, amidst all the daily ambient horror of simply being a person with a phone in 2026, it is nice to be reminded of the kinds of small lives we still agree to make room for. Have you noticed that...

There’s something good going on with music these days. Romance by Fontaines D.C. is a perfect album. I have listened to it almost every single day for weeks and have not gotten sick of it once, which is – and I mean this clinically – a medical miracle. Jack White is on SNL. The Strokes are touring....

Thinking about resuscitating regular written updates. Reasons, in order of honesty: vanity it might pressure me into actually doing something worth reporting on writing is a part of my brain that has been gathering dust and I am becoming increasingly concerned this is turning me into a bore. Found a...