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This month, indie musicians in San Francisco gathered for a series of talks called Death to Spotify, where attenders explored “what it means to decentralize music discovery, production and listening from capitalist economies”.The events, held at Bathers library, featured speakers from indie station KEXP, labels Cherub Dream Records and Dandy Boy Records, and DJ collectives No Bias and Amor Digital. What began as a small run of talks quickly sold out and drew international interest. People as far away as Barcelona and Bengaluru emailed the organizers asking how to host similar events.A Death to Spotify event at Bathers library in…

YouTube stars “The McCartys” are expanding their universe. Apart from the Spooky Special, their first live interactive show – “which illustrated their ability to do a half-hour episode,” said Catherine Winder (Wind Sun Sky) – an animated series and unscripted competition series with Kevin Healey as host are already being developed, they revealed at industry event Mipcom in France. “We are looking for really innovative ways to expand the brand,” said Viral Nation’s Paul Telner. “There’s really nothing like them on YouTube. They really cornered this sort of scary, Halloween content.” An e-commerce site has also been set up, all…

Oct 12, 2025, 02:10 PM ETWe’re through Week 7 of the 2025 college football season, and this weekend’s games were all about the quarterback matchups. Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza beat Oregon’s Dante Moore. Texas’ Arch Manning beat Oklahoma’s John Mateer. LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier beat South Carolina’s LaNorris Sellers. And elsewhere, Alabama’s Ty Simpson put up big numbers against Missouri, and Penn State’s Drew Allar went down with a leg injury in a loss to Northwestern. That’s a lot to break down.The 2026 NFL draft is still roughly half a year away. But our NFL draft analysts are always looking down the…

It’s not often that a home makes you audibly ooh and aah, but when I opened the door to this wood-paneled Phoenicia treehouse (after a slow and steady, somewhat treacherous reverse down the driveway, mind you), my eyes went wide. The wraparound living room windows pulled me in, connecting the large open-plan living room and kitchen with the equally spacious back deck. For a Manhattanite, this kind of space and proximity to nature is king.AirbnbCreekside Phoenicia treehouseI was visiting the area with my mom on her first trip to upstate New York, and was thrilled to find the home to…

Sammy Awamireporting from Madagascar andFarouk ChothiaAFP via Getty ImagesSome troops joined protesters in the capital on SaturdayThe office of Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina has said an attempt to seize power illegally and by force is under way in the country.Hours later, an army unit known as CAPSAT claimed that it had taken over the leadership of the military command, and was now in control of all the armed forces – land, air, and naval.This is the same unit that played a crucial role in the 2009 Malagasy political crisis, which helped Rajoelina rise to power.Madagascar was first hit by youth-led…

Topline“Tron: Ares” opened with a disappointing $33.5 million at the domestic box office, according to early estimates reported by the Hollywood trade publications, with the Jared Leto-helmed reboot coming in below projections and well below the opening weekend sales from the last installment released in 2010.The new “Tron” installment comes 15 years since Disney rebooted the franchise with “Tron: Legacy.”Getty Images for SDCCMalagaKey FactsThe new installment in the “Tron” franchise, which stars Leto, Greta Lee, and Evan Peters, grossed about $14.3 million on its opening night on Friday, but only grossed $33.5 million across 4,000 theaters in North America over…

There is, allegedly, a commonly held belief among landscape architects familiar with New York City: for Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, the designers of both Central Park and Prospect Park, the former was merely practice for the latter.Located in Brooklyn, Prospect Park, 300 acres smaller than the Manhattan landmark, has a specifically insular quality. A surrounding urban horizon is obscured from view by old-growth forest and 175 species of trees; the park is beholden to its own rhythms, with waterfalls, grand lawns stretched across the borough’s glacial rock formations, and fewer adjacent towering buildings. Visiting feels like a quiet…

Fernando Mendoza has emerged as one of the top quarterbacks in the nation and the NFL Draft class. Mendoza has the build of a traditional pocket passer and a polished passing skill set that translates well to the NFL. He excels as a quick post-snap processor and quick decision-maker with the football. Mendoza began his career at Cal as a 3-star recruit in the 2022 class, per 247Sports. Last year at Cal, he threw for 3,004 yards, 16 touchdowns, and six interceptions, but displayed the potential that drew the interest from Indiana head coach Kurt Cignetti.Dame Parson is the lead…

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Russia attacked energy infrastructure in the regions of Donetsk, Odesa and Chernihiv overnight into Sunday in an ongoing campaign to cripple Ukraine’s power grid before winter as Russian officials also expressed “extreme concern” over the US potentially providing Kyiv with Tomahawk cruise missiles.