LOS ANGELES — When rapper-actor Common was a kid, he carried towels and sneakers as a Chicago Bulls ball boy who was close enough to hear the squeak of shoes and the roar inside the arena. Decades ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

Whether you’re an aspiring songwriter, just starting out, or an old pro, it’s helpful to look at the parts of a song and how best to arrange them. Playing with structure requires both sides of the ...

The concept of the common good in American society has undergone a remarkable transformation since the nation's founding. What began as a clear, if contested, vision of collective welfare has ...

Something “Wicked” this way comes not only at the movie theater, but in the music world as well. “Wicked: For Good – The Soundtrack” drops 11 songs nestled in the second volume of the film, with a ...

On March 31, 2020, when the United States was on Covid-19 lockdown, The Atlantic published “Beyond Originalism,” a cerebral essay by the Harvard Law professor C. Adrian C. Vermeule ’90. The essay ...

There are eleven songs in Wicked: For Good, and while they're all well-produced, they don't all hold the same weight in terms of their memorability, catchiness, or production. Tackling Act 2 of the ...

If Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros does not ring a bell for you, there’s a good chance their song, “Home,” might. Especially if you were a music fan around 2010. Music was going through a heavy ...

There are songs for when you’re sad and songs for when you’re happy. There are songs for just about every complicated emotion a human being could have, and there’s probably a playlist out there ...

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Justine Kraemer is a Senior List Writer at Collider and a freelance writer based in Ontario, Canada. She is passionate about finding new angles on the latest movies and TV shows. With over five years ...