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Are Grownups Just Giant Kids?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Late this past summer, I was at the convenience store with my son, buying ice cream, when a Tesla Cybertruck pulled into the lot. Peter is six, and fascinated by Cybertrucks;…

The Best Podcasts of 2024

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story What a year, eh? In podcasts, as everywhere else lately, volatility abounds—yet beauty and wonder abound, too. Ongoing budget cuts (and debatable decision-making) meant that we lost more terrific shows in…

The Best Albums of 2024

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There is perhaps no moment in history when being a music critic felt like a respectable, lucrative, or essential position, though there are certainly years when it maybe seemed more fun—long…

John Cuneo’s “Garden Party”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of the best ways to feel a sense of belonging, or to forge a connection to a city, is to cheer the triumphs and weather the defeats of a sports…

What You Can Do with an Electric Volkswagen Bus

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Shapiro brothers, Gefen and Yona, who are nineteen and sixteen and Harpo Marx look-alikes, own eleven cars between them, including a Girl Scout-green 1972 MG Midget, a blueberry-blue 1987 Alfa…

A Bahraini Photographer Returns Home

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At the beach, a young man wearing a faux Givenchy T-shirt and skinny jeans stands on the back of a horse. With one hand, he reaches for the reins on the…

Of Yiddish, Litvaks, and the Evil Eye

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Some years ago, at the annual P.S. 3 book fair, I came across a Yiddish-English dictionary. This was a more serious Yiddish-English dictionary than the somewhat antic one I owned called…

The Best Jokes of 2024

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A good joke doesn’t just fall out of a coconut tree. It exists in the context of all in which it lives and what came before it. And so it’s worth…

The Triumph of the Post-Thanksgiving Sandwich

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Leftovers, eaten the day after, or maybe late…