Sounds Good is a monthly roundtable where we ask Straight staff what their ears are plugged into. We’ve got a pretty diverse set of tastes, so there’s absolutely no cohesion here: just good vibes. And ...

The perfect Halloween song. From sad country songs that have remained country classics, to upbeat hits like “On The Road Again,” there’s a Willie Nelson song for any and every occasion, which is just ...

This week’s Indie Basement Classic is an undeniable classic and possibly the greatest Britpop album (and it turned 30 this ...

The sound of a train inspired Jackson Browne's "My Opening Farewell". Browne considered using the song title to pivot to a ...

On October 25, 2025, the writers George Saunders and Zadie Smith took the stage with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah ...

Because of their lyrical content, many folk songs double as life lessons. Revisit three history-making folk hits that teach ...

The stage lights at Lawton Community Theatre glowed warmly on Saturday afternoon as family, friends and fellow performers gathered to celebrate the life of Virginia Holmes O’Leary — known to nearly ...

The hit series draws from many different aspects of the troubled teen industry, but multiple narratives out of one long-shuttered institution are rather striking. By Kevin Dolak In the hit Netflix ...

How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? The A.I. researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks. This is an edited transcript of ...

aDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK bDepartment of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London, UK Whether short-term ...

The Hill Country Alliance is accepting applications for its Night Sky Preservation Fund, which provides up to $5,000 in reimbursement funding for community efforts to protect dark skies across the ...

Laverne Eileen (Hanrahan) Powers, 89, of Orlando, formerly of Quincy, passed away Wednesday, October 1, 2025, in Orlando, FL. Laverne was born June 7, 1936, in Calumet City, IL to John Hanrahan and ...