Many of the best albums from the first half of the 2020s have similar origin stories. There are two basic plot lines you'll see repeatedly on this list, the most common of which is the COVID pandemic, ...

The Times Union’s Best of the Capital Region 2026 poll launches Thursday, for another year of you lauding your favorites in dining, shopping, services and more around our great, greater region. Here’s ...

Down the hall from crowded keynotes, whirring robot vacuums and exoskeleton try-on booths, more than 40 tech experts from CNET Group crowded into a ballroom at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas. There, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kris Holt is a writer who covers video games and word games. It’s that time once again, gang. I always wait until the very end of ...

It can be tempting, in an era where there are simply way too many great games coming out every month, to give into list inflation. Top 10s become top 25s. Top 25s become top 50s. By 2030, we might ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

The way we see it, there’s a yin and yang to documentaries. They’ve always had the potential to be deadly serious — now maybe more than ever, as a world awash in chaos spotlights such topics as the ...

With thousands of metal songs released in 2025, here's a ranking of the 13 best. Just trying to keep up with the dozens (sometimes hundreds) of new tracks dropping each week is a gauntlet. We all have ...

'Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle’ (Crunchy Roll) What do we do when we start making a movie? We yell “action!” because that’s what this medium is all about. On a basic, ...

The year at the movies gets a mixed review. For a hefty chunk of 2025, it felt like one flop after another — and not only at the box office. And some of the past 12 months’ boffo hits were puerile ...

The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood history. This climate of consolidation and capitulation gave a ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...