Essence
BEST IN GROOMING AWARDS
Looking to expand the self-care routine of the men in your life? From a revitalizing scalp scrub to a high-tech trimmer, these are the outstanding grooming launches of the year
4 min |
Fall/Winter 2025
Essence
The Voices of Altadena: Rebuilding Black Legacy After the Wildfires
The historic Los Angeles community refuses to be erased
5 min |
Fall/Winter 2025
Essence
Résumé Rundown: Nia Sioux
Growing up at the \"bottom of the pyramid,\" Sioux is turning that disempowering label into a legacy
3 min |
Fall/Winter 2025
Essence
WHERE BLACK ART BREATHES: MOMENTS THAT TRANSFORMED 2025
In these pages, we witness a year of Black artistry that moved hearts, shook stages and reshaped the contours of possibility
10+ min |
Fall/Winter 2025
Essence
New Voices Foundation at the 2025 ESSENCE Festival
For the 2025 ESSENCE Festival of Culture, the New Voices Foundation presented a robust lineup of programming-designed to empower entrepreneurs from New Orleans and across the country
1 min |
Fall/Winter 2025
Essence
The Business of Being Druski
From viral skits to sold-out stages, this creative is proving that betting on yourself pays off
8 min |
Fall/Winter 2025
Essence
THE MOMENT IS heirs
The boy was a hook; Brandy and Monica were the history. Their return proves the moment belongs, and always belonged, to them.
10+ min |
Fall/Winter 2025
Essence
Birkins Over Bitcoin?
Is the smart money in designer accessories? With authenticity as the gold standard, luxury bags are no longer mere status symbols—they’re key components of long-term wealth strategies
3 min |
Fall/Winter 2025
Guitar World
EVH 5150 Iconic Series 15-watt 1x10 Combo
This might be the smallest amp in the Iconic series, but it sure packs plenty of firepower
2 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
EarthQuaker Devices Easy Listening
A guitar headphone amplifier that aims to make things easy breezy for players with pedalboards
2 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
THE GEAR HUNTER Suhr Guitars
John Suhr knows a thing or two about tone. Hey, the guy oversaw repairs at Rudy's Music in NYC, modded amps with Bob Bradshaw, became a Senior Master Builder and launched his own admired brand
5 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Rising Son
With their third album (and a bit of his dad's Frankenstein), Wolfgang Van Halen and Mammoth are taking the world of rock guitar by storm once again - critics, anxiety and wildfires be damned
10 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
SLASH AND BURN
Saul “Slash” Hudson is the luckiest man in rock. Quitting Guns N’ Roses in ’96 when they were on top of the world, he returned in ’16 for the ultimate victory lap, making peace with Axl Rose, playing guitar at the peak of his powers – and even learning to love a certain, harmonics-heavy ballad
10+ min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Blackstar ID:X 50
In the fierce modelling combo amp market, can Blackstar deliver?
2 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
BLUES RBOOM!
Is Buddy Guy our greatest living blues guitarist? As his 10th decade approaches, we meet the master for a frank talk about passing the torch, the importance of a sip of cognac and the advice he gave Jimi Hendrix
6 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Joe Bonamassa
When you're on a winning streak, don't mess with the formula - and opinions be damned, says the perennial blues phenomenon
9 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Brent Hinds
On August 20, we lost one of modern heavy music's most accomplished guitarists. We salute the master of Mastodon
8 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Larry McCray
After his career flagged, intervention from Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith brought this Michigan master to the forefront of the blues
1 min |
December 2025
Guitar World
Samantha Fish
With her latest studio release, the Kansas City blues rocker bottles the energy of life on the road
6 min |
December 2025
The New Yorker
SEASON OF DISCONTENT
Gustavo Dudamel at the New York Philharmonic; \"Kavalier & Clay\" at the Met.
6 min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
DON'T BLAME ME
Taylor Swift's new album eschews vulnerability for revenge.
6 min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
For someone openly campaigning to get a Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump has been going about it in an unusual way. Early last month, the President proclaimed in a press conference that the Department of Defense would thereafter be known as the Department of War. At the same briefing, the presumed new Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, promised that the armed forces will deliver “maximum lethality” that won't be “politically correct.” That was a few days after Trump had ordered the torpedoing of a small boat headed out of Venezuela, which he claimed was piloted by “narco-terrorists,” killing all eleven people on board, rather than, for instance, having it stopped and inspected. After some military-law experts worried online that this seemed uncomfortably close to a war crime, Vice-President J. D. Vance posted, “Don't give a shit.”
4 min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
THESE BLACK BOOTS ARE DIFFERENT FROM THOSE BLACK BOOTS
These have an almond toe.
2 min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
OUT OF OFFICE
Can a Prime Minister have work-life balance? Sanna Marin tried.
10+ min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
LOCKED IN
Two murders, a strike, and an explosive year inside New York's prisons.
10+ min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
THE HAGUE ON TRIAL
Political intrigue—and a lurid scandal—rocks the International Criminal Court.
10+ min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
CONTINENTAL DREAMS
African independence was a time of high hopes. What happened?
10+ min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
ALMA MATER
\"After the Hunt.\"
6 min |
October 13, 2025
The New Yorker
Coconut Flan
Somehow, after the plane landed though before Andrés and Daria reached the taxi stand, Daria's wallet went missing.
10+ min |
October 13, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Inside look at state's brutal prison system
Inmates' harrowing secret footage drives the enraging 'The Alabama Solution.'
2 min |