Christmas may be over, but its soundtrack—those unmistakable, oft-maddening jingles about reindeer and sleighs and snow-capped romances—linger on.
Last week, Hsinchu Kuang-Fu High School, a private high school in Taiwan, was relatively unknown; by the weekend, its name was splashed across the world.
Amid a mess of spiny trees, starlight, and early hints of an intermittent drizzle, Justin Vernon stepped on stage and plowed through a dozen songs no one in the crowd of thousands had ever heard before. “That’s the end of side A,” Vernon—the bearded, soft-spoken one-man founder of indie folk sensation Bon Iver—announced, halfway into the live release of 22, A Million. And added, sounding pleased: “It feels super cool playing it live for the first time.”
They danced for Liberace. They danced for George W. Bush. But some of the Radio City Rockettes, America’s most beloved precision dance group, famous for their yearly holiday spectaculars, are drawing the line at president-elect Donald Trump.
Rumor has it president-elect Donald Trump is scraping a bit at the bottom of the barrel for entertainers for his January inauguration. His national anthem singer isn’t Beyoncé or Aretha Franklin, like it was for Barack Obama, but 16-year-old America’s Got Talent contestant Jackie Evancho. (“Who?” the US’s non-game-show-watching population asked in confusion.)
Ponte Vecchio, for lack of a less hackneyed word, glittered.
The assignment was simple—to write a persuasive essay defending the actions of the Ku Klux Klan—yet the reactions to it were anything but.
Children’s literature these days is taking a turn for the avant-garde. Earlier this year, there was the children’s book about Donald Trump; now works of adult classic literature are being adapted for babies and toddlers.
Five hundred and thirty-eight people will convene in various places around the US on Monday (Dec. 19) to officially elect the country’s next president and vice president.
We live in a miraculous world of one-click retail and zippy shipping speeds, but come holiday season, all of the orderliness we expect from online shopping can be thrown into madness. The closer it gets to Christmas, the trickier it is to get timely delivery.
Much of the world is still in disbelief about Donald Trump’s unexpected US presidential election win; the city of Mobile, Alabama, meanwhile, embraced it with unbridled enthusiasm this weekend.
Never a particularly cheery song to begin with, R.E.M.’s 1987 hit “It’s the End of the World” got a modern-day remix this weekend on CBS’s The Late Show when host Stephen Colbert—along with R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe and actor James Franco—updated it to better reflect the times.
Familiar to many Americans for its nationwide billboards, print ads, and long-running television commercials, DeVry University—one of the biggest names in for-profit US education—will now forever be linked to deceptive marketing.
Outgoing US president Barack Obama was welcomed to the White House in 2009 by Aretha Franklin and Beyoncé; Donald Trump, in a twist on tradition—but what else is new—has opted for a teenage America’s Got Talent contestant.
After US president-elect Donald Trump spoke with Kanye West during their intimate meeting at Trump Tower today, it seems that West has—out of courtesy, respect, or perhaps, intimidation—decided to push back his burgeoning presidential campaign by four years.
We at Quartz are on Yeezy 2020 watch, dissecting Kanye West’s every move before he runs for president as promised in four years.
The music business as we know it is dead. It’s fitting that the final nail in its coffin would be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—the 18th-century composer, long-dead himself—who this month became 2016’s top artist by CD sales.
Hamilton yearners should probably abandon all hope by now, but tickets for the next mega-hit in the cultural zeitgeist may be a tad bit easier to by.
Exactly how much does a student’s performance in high school affect his or her later chances of success?
Here’s a thrilling new idea: For the low price of $10 a month, music service Pandora will give you on-demand access to a millions-strong library of songs from artists across the world. Plus, playlists, personalized radio stations, and more!
Nominations for next February’s 59th Annual Grammy Awards are out. Among all your standard yawn-inducing safe bets—Beyoncé, Adele, Drake—is a wild card: Chance the Rapper, and his album Coloring Book.
In 2013, America churned out a record 3.5 million high school graduates—a figure that now is now set to stagnate for the next decade.
Every three years the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) tests 15-year-olds around the world on their math, science and reading abilities.
A disgruntled graduate of Oxford, the venerated British university, is throwing a lawsuit at his alma mater, alleging that the school’s “boring” and “appallingly bad” teaching prevented him from securing both a first-class degree and a successful career as a lawyer.
