Some meaningful highlights, momentary distractions, and audio-visual coping mechanisms, reviewed in 5 sentences or less. — 5 Categories, 5 Favorites, 5 Sentences or Less So how do you greet someone this year? How do you start an email, a conversation, a Zoom call? A “hello, how are you?” A “hope you’re doing well?” Maybe just a simple nod and a resigned sigh? Everything seems like it falls short. Everything seems too contrived.

How streaming services are transforming television, film, and, let’s face it, your entire reality. — Here are a few things you should know about me: I obsessively read A.V. Club reviews. I will most likely try to glean your Twin Peaks knowledge within the first hour of idle chit-chat. …

Hey New Yorkers! Let’s talk about your favorite thing in the whole wide world! The subway! Yes, that ancient locomotive that somehow manages to move millions of residents of NYC from one place to another without totally giving up midway. What a champ, folks. But let’s not address its mind-boggling…

Hi, I’m an adult and I really like bedtime stories. Here’s why. Last night I drifted off to sleep while listening to gale warnings and ocean currents like I’m a Scottish sailor from 1882. …

And surpassed $100 billion in transactions volume in the process — It was a glorious time. I was barely of my twenties. I had just moved to New York. I was Instagramming the bridge (we know which one) on the daily and swinging around subway poles with great, misplaced adoration. But I was also new to a life of rent, wash…

Stories. I inhale them, I internalize them. I add to them, I subtract from them. I transform them and create them anew until they almost feel as tangible as the texture of fabric against my skin, as easy as shifting silk between my fingers. Point is. I love stories, y’all …