BRAINTREE, Mass. — The crescendoing racket from an estimated 70,000 pickleball courts across the United States has generated bitter municipal fights, litigation, vandalism, acoustical mitigation ...

If you dine out these days, you’ll find a lot of trends on the menu. Between omakase, small plates and cocktails with unpronounceable ingredients, even the most devoted foodies can get baffled when ...

Jennifer Lawrence described the "cool girl" reputation she gained in the 2010s as "my genuine personality, but it was also "a defense mechanism" Marilla Sicilia/Archivio Marilla Sicilia/Mondadori ...

In 2007 I went to Virunga National Park on an assignment, and I was working with a group of rangers who were fighting paramilitary groups. We got word that some critically endangered mountain gorillas ...

We all have words and phrases that get under our skin. For me, I can’t stand the word ‘fluids.’ It paints a picture that I would rather not see. We often hear how the word ‘moist’ makes people feel ...

Ronald Goncalves is a contributor at DualShockers and a Venezuelan political scientist and economist who seeks to express his passion for video games through the always subjective interpretation of ...

Do your pets ever do something that drives you a little crazy? It happens to all of us; maybe you’re rushing out the door, focused on something important, or just not in the mood, and suddenly your ...

The perverted side character is a trope I don’t think anybody actually enjoys when watching anime. You know the type— a character that’s constantly getting nosebleeds every time a woman looks their ...

In September 2025, a video that appeared to show an adult gorilla hitting a crocodile in the face with a club to free a baby gorilla from the crocodile's jaws was seen by millions across social media.

CBGB was known for hardcore matinees as much as it was known for the birth of punk and other things, so it’s fitting that a hardcore show that could have happened at CBGB will also now happen as part ...

Despite being one of the more commonly experienced emotions in everyday life, experts suggest that annoyance is largely underresearched. A subset of anger, annoyance is a "moderately negative" emotion ...

Dear Eric: In a recent column you wrote, “Sometimes, when our opinions about people change, any little thing they do can become a point of annoyance.” OK, I get it. And yes, it has happened to me. So, ...