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Albums on Repeat This Month

Noah Bennett2 Music reviews

Brat is overhyped. Promises is the album of the decade.

Weekend trip from LA — but you can only pick one

Sam Torres2 Travel reviews

Cozy game night — what are we playing?

Priya Nair1 Gaming review

Best Coffee Shops in NYC

Alex Rivera3 Food & Drink reviews

Every NYC coffee shop ranked — and Blue Bottle didn't even make the cut.

Promises — Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders

Noah Bennett2 Music reviews

Forty-six minutes built on a seven-note motif that never overstays its welcome — somehow it deepens every time it loops. Floating Points lays down a bed of strings and synths, the

Album of the year. Sorry, only one slot.

Noah Bennett2 Music reviews

Cozy RPGs to Decompress With

Priya Nair1 Gaming review

Stardew Valley is more therapeutic than actual therapy. Don't @ me.

Essential Headphones Under $300

Alex Rivera2 Tech reviews

AirPods Max are not worth $299 — here's what to buy instead.

Kindle Paperwhite (2024)

Jordan Park1 Tech review

The rare gadget that gets out of its own way. Page turns are now instant instead of that little ghostly flicker, the contrast makes paperbacks look washed out, and the battery laug

Baldur's Gate 3

Priya Nair1 Gaming review

A hundred hours of a game that remembers things you forgot you did. Almost every unhinged plan you scheme up — seduce the vampire, shove the wizard off a cliff, talk a god out of a

Underrated Horror From the Last 5 Years

Maya Chen2 Movies & TV reviews

Skinamarink is not for everyone — and that's exactly why it's #5.

The closet essential that earns its rent

Lena Sokolov2 Fashion reviews

Weekend Getaways from LA

Sam Torres2 Travel reviews

Skip Palm Springs. Ojai is the LA weekend you actually need.

Devoción

Alex Rivera3 Food & Drink reviews

A glass cathedral that happens to sell coffee. The Colombian single-origin pour-over is dialed in to the gram, the atrium light makes everyone look like they're in a perfume ad, an

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Jordan Park1 Books review

Ostensibly a book about making video games; actually a gut-punch about the people you love and keep failing anyway. Zevin earns every tear honestly — no cheap shortcuts — and the e

Book to gift your most cynical friend

Jordan Park1 Books review

Nonfiction That Rewired My Brain

Jordan Park1 Books review

Sapiens is a great cocktail-party book. It's also the most overrated #3 on this list.

Past Lives

Maya Chen2 Movies & TV reviews

Eighty-some minutes of the most polite heartbreak ever committed to film. Nothing explodes, nobody yells, and yet the final bar scene left the entire theater doing that quiet thing

Capsule Wardrobe Essentials

Lena Sokolov2 Fashion reviews

You don't need designer. A $20 Uniqlo tee beats most $200 ones.

Sony WH-1000XM5

Alex Rivera2 Tech reviews

The headphones that quietly ended the debate. The noise cancelling doesn't just mute the world, it deletes it — a crying baby on a redeye becomes a rumor. Featherlight on the skull