Aaron Gilbreath

Hopkinsville sits 11 miles from where the sun, moon and earth will form a straight line during this summer’s total solar eclipse. Locals predict that the 33,000 person town’s position will attract enough stargazers to triple its existence. As any Olympic city can tell you, popularity comes with a cost.

Diners were once essential threads in the fabric of New York City life. Now they’re dying off. Their loss signals a fundamental shift in not only the city’s tastes and economy, but the city’s evolving identity and values. Thankfully, not all are giving up their 22 different hamburgers and 24 types of omelettes yet.

For ten years, Monocle has successfully catered to the world’s status-conscious, globe-trotting elite by offering them exclusivity, materiality and identity. So does the rise of nationalism threaten a lifestyle magazine that treats the world as one big upscale mall?

They don’t have their own Law & Order spin off yet, but they should. These are the men and women of law enforcement who investigate certain strains of agricultural crime. These are their stories.

What depression was to the 1990s anxiety is to right now, growing from a medical condition into our national sociological state. What’s happening?

If the ‘prog’ in prog rock meant “progressive,” did this form of synthy jazz rock ever achieve its high art future? It certainly generated legions of fans and haters.