25+ min ago (544+ words) The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Marking the 50th anniversary of Genesis" landmark double album (the last to feature singer Peter Gabriel) comes this deluxe version featuring the original record newly remastered, plus the complete 1975 live performance of the Lamb at Los Angeles" Shrine Auditorium. A Night at the Opera Regarded as Queen"s definitive studio album, A Night at the Opera and its signature track, the iconic "Bohemian Rhapsody," turned 50 this year; it also contained other Queen staples as "You"re My Best Friend," "Love of My Life" and "I"m in Love With My Car." To celebrate the golden anniversary, A Night at the Opera has been reissued on crystal clear vinyl with gold labels. This new double-disc anthology celebrates the career of Paul McCartney"s post-Beatles band, which had a spectacular run of hits throughout the 1970s. It features…...

45+ min ago (581+ words) Brad Japhe is a freelance journalist specializing in food, beverage, and travel. He moonlights as a beer and spirits consultant, hosting monthly craft pairings/educational dinners in both Los Angeles and New York, and curating drink menus for festivals and restaurants. He prefers Scotch to bourbon, IPAs before lagers, and In-n-Out over Shake Shack. His favorite breed of dog is unequivocally the Siberian Husky and he suffers from an irrational, unrequited love for the New York Knicks. Troll him on Instagram: @Journeys_with_Japhe The World's Best Whiskey'According To The 2025 Asia Spirits Ratings The Asia Spirits Ratings debuted earlier this autumn, promising to deliver a "first-of-its-kind competition aligning spirit excellence with real commercial performance" across the continent. What does that mean in practice? Well, judges were looking for more than just quality from the hundreds of liquids evaluated. Excellence, balance and character was…...

48+ min ago (335+ words) Lana Bortolot turned her attention (and tastebuds) to wine reporting in 2009, and has covered trends, products, regions and the business of wine ever since. She is a candidate for the Diploma from the Wine & Spirits Education. Other reporting has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, Entrepreneur, Wine Enthusiast, and Saveur magazines. She was a contributor to Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book for six years, and numerous guidebooks. Having covered most European wine regions and a few in South America (26 countries and counting), she is always looking for a new wine-stained stamp in her passport. Wine Of The Month: A Chardonnay From Santa Cruz Mountains With Burgundy Vibes From Rhys Vineyards comes this "Burgundy imposter" (in a good way!) with subtle lemony notes, silky texture and a real purity of fruit. Made of 100% Chardonnay…...

55+ min ago (307+ words) Kris Holt is a writer who covers the art, business and culture of video games. He also covers casual word games, such as Connections, Strands and Quordle. Kris has covered the cloud gaming space, interviewed gaming executives and reported from major esports events. Kris holds a masters degree in English. Along with his work at Forbes, he's a contributing reporter at Engadget. In addition to games, he writes about tech, film, TV, music and the internet. Follow Kris for video game news and reviews, industry analysis and guides to daily New York Times games including Connections and the Mini crossword. He can be reached via email, Bluesky or Discord. Quordle Hints And Answers For Monday, December 1 Hey, folks! Hints and the answers for today's Quordle words are just ahead. How To Play Quordle For any newcomers joining us, here's how…...

55+ min ago (977+ words) Each day's game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before your NYT Connections hints today, here's what you missed on Sunday: Hey there, Connectors! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Perhaps it was a long weekend if you're in the U.S. In any case, I'm very happy to be back with you here until Friday. As you may know by now (if not, welcome!), I like to start the Monday editions of this column with a fun, upbeat song. I'd love for you to start the week off on a positive note. If I can help you smile and dance around a bit, even better. Flowerovlove is one of my favorite discoveries over the last couple of years. Every song she's released in recent memory has been a delight, including her latest track "Wishlist." A timely song…...

55+ min ago (378+ words) That price gas parity price ranges from 24 cents/kWh if you compare a Prius on the East coast to more like 65 cents/kWh to beat California's expensive gasoline in an average gasoline car. Beating a 35mpg hybrid in California needs getting below 50 cents/kWh. The best mantra for charging is "charge where you park, don't park where you charge." You want to charge at places you already intended to park and stay for a bit. That way charging takes zero time out of your day. Ideally you are sleeping or eating or shopping or anything else, never sitting around waiting. To figure out how big and fast a charging station should be, you want to look at how long people typically spend at the location, and how often they go to it. Another option I call "Level 1.5." It's 240v Level 2, but with…...

55+ min ago (368+ words) So much that we see as expensive in the present will be incredibly cheap in the future. There are so many examples of this, so many past examples that so many readers know well (remember "long-distance" calling?), but since so many readers have an Apple iPhone, it's best to pinpoint one of certainly countless examples emanating from the supercomputer that fits in our pockets. Think iMovie. Fast forward to the present, and iMovie makes it possible for anyone with imaginatio to make a real movie. On the high end we've seen this through auteur Steven Soderbergh and his use of three now primitive iPhone 7 phones to shoot Unsane in 2018. Soderbergh did it again with High Flying Bird in 2019. With Soderbergh, stop and think about what his utilization of technology available to us all for so little money means to past…...

58+ min ago (249+ words) The Powerball jackpot rose to $740 million after no tickets matched all six numbers drawn in Saturday night's drawing, but a potential winner would take home substantially less after taxes. No winning tickets matched all six winning numbers (19, 22, 30, 32, 59 and Powerball number 1) drawn Saturday, meaning the jackpot is growing once again before the next drawing. If a winner is selected in the next drawing on Monday, they will have the choice between receiving the full jackpot paid out over 30 annual installments, or accepting a lump sum of $346.1 million. If the winner selects the lump sum, the much more popular option, they will immediately face the 24% federal withholding tax, bringing their winnings down to $263 million. They will then likely face a federal marginal tax rate of 37% based on their income, bringing the sum down to $218 million. If the winner elects to take the…...

1+ hour, 2+ min ago (445+ words) Results come from publicly available retail sites, with visible citations and a stated preference to avoid low-quality or spammy sources. Chats are not shared with retailers, and the Help Center flags that some sellers block automated access, in which case the agent either skips those sources or relies on alternatives. The company positions rankings as organic. If you want to buy, the guide links directly to merchant sites for payment and delivery. OpenAI says direct purchasing will come through Instant Checkout for participating sellers. That flow is based on the emerging Agentic Commerce Protocol, built with Stripe, and aims to convert research into a one-tap transaction inside ChatGPT. To avoid OpenAI sniping unwanted products from sites that don't want to be listed in the chatbot, the Shopping Research tool honors robots.txt. That policy matters, since Amazon has updated its…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago (248+ words) Perhaps the most extreme member of this group is Selaginella lepidophylla, commonly known as the "rose of Jericho" or "the dinosaur of houseplants." It's native to the Chihuahuan Desert in northern Mexico and southwestern United States, it can survive nearly total desiccation (down to about 5% internal moisture) and remain dormant. Most astonishingly, it can remain in this dormant state for nearly a decade. Some field accounts estimate that individuals can remain viable for six to seven years without a drop of water. Here's how. Remarkably, when rain eventually arrives " be it days, weeks, months or even years later " it unfurls itself and begins to turn green once more. In just a matter of hours after being rewatered, it resumes its growth as if nothing happened. As research from Annual Review of Physiology explains, this process is possible due to the…...