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The Grateful Dead’s New Album Didn’t Just Sell Well — It Sold Out In One Week

ByHugh McIntyre,

Senior Contributor.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Every year, the jam outfit lands new wins across multiple tallies, thanks to a bursting archive that just keeps delivering and a fan base that’s arguably as passionate now as it was at the peak of the group’s touring days.

This time around, the band returns with yet another live recording that proves just how potent its catalog remains. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

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The Grateful Dead’s Beacon Theatre, New York, NY, June 14, 1976 debuts on Billboard’s Vinyl Albums … Read more about it here.

Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen: The Freestylist

Magnus Carlsen strolls across the parking lot of Millerntor Stadium in Hamburg as the journalists scurry into hiding. No questions are allowed.

DER SPIEGEL 16/2025

The article you are reading originally appeared in German in issue 16/2025 (April 12th, 2025) of DER SPIEGEL.

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This Monday in mid-January marks the first time that the world’s top-ranked player has competed for FC St. As if the superstar of the chess world were a skittish doe that would take flight at the slightest rustle.

Carlsen has been promised that no journalists will be on site, say the organizers of a meet and greet. Read more about it here.

The Day James Bond Movies Died

In hindsight, it doesn’t seem like a coincidence that in “No Time to Die” the filmmakers did away not only with two of the series’ most memorable and longest standing characters (Felix Leiter and Blofeld) but also with 007 himself, even when the MacGuffin in turn provided more alternatives to wrap up the plot than in most every other entry in the history of the series. And yet, considering how long and hard the producers had fought to secure exclusive rights to the character, as well to the Blofeld and SPECTRE names, the announcement still came as a shock.  

At the end of the day, the only criteria to decide if this change of direction should be seen as good news would be identifying what exactly has distinguished the Bond series and how likely it is to remain the same way with this change of direction. There have surely been even more financially successful series than 007, like the “Star Wars” saga, but the longevity and constant quality standards of the Bond movies through twenty-five features and over sixty years remains unmatched. Read more about it here.

Can Cowboy Fever Make Bull Riding the Next UFC?

Can Cowboy Fever Make Bull Riding the Next UFC?

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The professional Bull Riders have been coming to New York’s Madison Square Garden since 2007, but, in the first week of this year, they arrive in a city that is saturated with cowboy fever at every level. Post Malone went country; Shaboozey spent a record-tying 19 weeks at the top of the charts; Yellowstone, America’s most watched show for stretches of its five seasons, spawned three spin-offs. It started with fashion and design a few years ago: Western influences were on mood boards and runways, and people showed up to their office jobs in cowboy boots. Read more about it here.

Coup de Coeur Jean-Philippe Duval never finished school. A skilled German trimmer could knock out a full interior in a day.

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Leila Register / NBC News; Getty Images By Kyla Guilfoil Not too long ago, if you asked Derek Deng, 22, to describe millennials, the Gen Z term “cheugy” — outdated or uncool — may have come to mind. Many Gen Zers — typically defined as those ages 12-27 — have expressed similar feelings of longing for the era they never got to experience as adults.

Mostly known as the mastermind behind the ultra-relevant and influential brand UNDERCOVER, the curiosity of his mind, evident in his unique design vision, has been fed by a life full of art, music, and creativity. Aside from his circle of friends, discussed before, Takahashi’s family is what’s most important to him.

Within a week of its debut, “Adolescence” became Netflix’s top-charting TV show, with critics and viewers lauding it as a critique on social media-boosted toxic masculinity and its role in the teenage experience. It’s one of the first scripted projects to confront the rising cultural influence of the “manosphere,” a network of online spaces that promote rigid notions of masculinity and espouse misogynistic stereotypes about women. How do we stop boys harming girls?” Thorne said. “Those conversations, it takes all of us to have them.