George Kalogerakis
Worst. Bond Villain. Ever.
Beleaguered Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg disrupts Hawaii
Wide-Open Spaces
Grab your mask and get out of the house with Roxy Music, Sidney Bechet, Garland Jeffreys, the Bangles, and more
Sex and the System
In New York and in red-light districts around the world, intimacy just got even more complicated
Don’t Call It a Comeback
Where are they now? Wishing you a happy birthday (or anniversary, etc.) for a fee on Cameo
Stay in Touch
Send a message with the Band, Split Enz, Bonnie Raitt, T. Rex, and more
Mr. Right
With prescient, gloomy pandemic reports, The New York Times’s wonky science writer Donald McNeil Jr. has become an unlikely sex symbol
The Covidfefe Chronicles
You can’t spell “pandemic” without “me,” backward
Get Out
Take an (imaginary) trip with Frank Sinatra, Noël Coward, the Plimsouls, the Talking Heads, and more
Ground Control to Captain Tom
How a 99-year-old World War II vet became England’s hottest pop idol
More Side Effects
Self-isolation then and now. A lot has changed since 1978—but some things haven’t
Side Effects
Cataloguing some of the less consequential repercussions of the coronavirus
Music for Shut-Ins (Part I)
The world is on a short leash these days. But you can tug at it. Madness, Noël Coward, the Kinks, Dusty Springfield, Benny Goodman, and others can help
Warning Tracks
This Ides of March, the foreboding will be palpable. Some earlier prophecies from the Beatles, Marvelettes, dB’s, Leonard Cohen, Sly and the Family Stone, and others. Et tu, Ann Peebles?
Famous Last Words
Death doesn’t stop narrators in songs from expressing themselves, as tracks from Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue, the Rolling Stones, the Shangri-Las, and others prove
Halloween Charade
An All Saints’ party with Patti, Billie, Neko, Nico, Emmylou, Bruce, Lucinda, and more—some with full names!
Pierre Le-Tan
An illustrator who blended whimsy and shadow in his palette
