It's that time of year, when the fictionalized retelling of the von Trapp family and in particular, Maria von Trapp, escape from Austria as it is annexed by Nazis Germany, comes to prime time. This ...

If you are new to El Paso or maybe in town for the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, Maria Cortes Gonzalez put the following guide together to help with some El Paso lingo. I’m going to add the following entry ...

Forward-looking: When wildfires sweep through the dry hills outside Los Angeles, homes can be lost in moments. A California startup imagines a different outcome: as embers fall and nearby brush ...

Live concerts, fireworks and roaring stadium crowds can reach dangerously high volumes — loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss. But what was the loudest sound ever recorded on Earth? The answer ...

Decoder is now a video podcast. We’re very excited to announce that Decoder is now officially on YouTube. So if you prefer to watch and not just listen to your podcasts, you can head over to ...

When director Oliver Hermanus’s queer drama, “The History of Sound,” played Cannes earlier this year, so many reviews compared it to “Brokeback Mountain” that the film’s star, Paul Mescal, complained ...

Since 2018, Slate critic Willa Paskin has explored bizarre and delightful cultural phenomena from “Baby Shark” to Chuck E. Cheese to try to understand what makes people obsessed with arbitrary ...

Scientists have captured direct images of heat behaving like sound — an elusive phenomenon called 'second sound' — for the very first time. Imaged within an exotic superfluid state of cold lithium-6 ...

A NASA rover ambling over the red desert planet for the past four years has been recording audio of Mars. In this alien world 156 million miles away in space, even the everyday whispers of wind and ...

Director Oliver Hermanus follows two men united in love and music, but his style is overly pictorial and polite, and so is the film's romantic passion. In “Brokeback Mountain,” the two lead characters ...

This post has been updated to clarify Sight & Sound's 2002 and 2024 productions of shows based on the biblical story of Daniel. Sight & Sound Theatres' 2026 production is a brand new tale for the ...

Forget fad diets and sketchy supplements, your favorite song might be the key to staying thin. In a new study, Japanese researchers found that acoustic sound waves can influence how our cells behave — ...