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One of the First Female Rock Critics Battled Sexism and Obscurity To Document the 1970s
Willis was The New Yorker’s first pop music critic, but to her, everything was open for criticism
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Reclaiming Nazi-Looted Art Is About to Get Easier
HEAR Act removes legal loopholes that prevented victims of Nazi art plunder to restore what’s rightfully theirs
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Why You Should Know Trailblazing Architect Paul Revere Williams
Almost four decades after his death, the African-American architect whose work came to define Los Angeles gets his due
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Austria’s Word of the Year Has 52 Letters
Bundespraesidentenstichwahlwiederholungsverschiebung isn’t just a mouthful—it tells an annoying political story
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Help the BBC Close Wikipedia’s Gender Gap
The Beeb’s hosting an edit-a-thon to improve the online encylopedia’s coverage of women
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Historic Photos of Baltimore Show the Real-Life “Hairspray”
Hairspray Live! fans, learn the history behind the beloved story
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This Artist Wants to Send a Sculpture of Your Laughs Into Space
#Laugh is on orbit to become the first art piece created in space
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Paris Is Selling Old Love Locks to Raise Money For Refugees
Putting clipped locks to good use
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Dakota Access Pipeline Protests Are Over, For Now
The Army Corps of Engineers announced it will not issue an easement to complete the pipeline, but the incoming administration could change course
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Comfort Foods Aren’t Magic, But Memory Might Be
On National Comfort Food Day (yeah it’s a thing), dig into the powers of food and how it makes us feel
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An exhibition in Boston delves into historical maps to show how the Bard saw the wider world
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These Photos Bring the Women’s Movement to Life
Catching the Wave dramatizes the large and small moments of second-wave feminism
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Ambitious New Public Art Project Will Turn the Thames Into an Illuminated Canvas
When Illuminated River launches in 2018, it will be the biggest such project ever undertaken
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Why Vegetarians Hate the U.K.’s New £5 Note
The new currency uses a polymer that contains some animal fat, and it turns out at least 24 other nations use the same product
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For 50 Years, This Swedish City Has Celebrated Christmas Season With a Giant Straw Goat
And most of the time it meets a fiery end
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Unesco Just Added Belgian Beer to Its Heritage List
The move celebrates the tiny country’s huge love of suds
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Goodbye, Barrow, Alaska. Hello, Utqiagvik
The most northerly city has officially reverted back to the Inupiaq name for the settlement on the Arctic sea
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The Beloved, Baffling ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Was Rejected By 26 Publishers
Author Madeleine L’Engle, whose birthday is today, almost quit writing before it was published
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Researchers Find Word Optimism Is Linked to National Misery
Even Pollyanna changes her tune in times of war and economic hardship
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Why Xenophobia Is Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year
The word derived from Greek roots captured the zeitgeist of 2016
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