TV & Movies 5 MIN READ
Legally Blonde at 25: Elle was always smart
Elle Woods did not need to erase her personality to be taken seriously. Revisiting the original comedy and the confirmed new prequel chapter.
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Five 2001 comedies worth a proper movie night
A disastrous race, a perfect pose, an awkward diary, a pink courtroom comeback and one very grumpy ogre. Which comedy still earns another viewing?
Tech 9 MIN READ
7 tech sounds you can still hear in your head
The dial-up handshake. The Windows XP welcome. The iPod click. Seven sounds that told us what our machines were doing—and became part of growing…
Music 5 MIN READ
2001: seven albums, seven different futures
Gorillaz, Daft Punk, Alicia Keys, Shakira, the Strokes, System of a Down and Björk. A listening route through a year that refused to sound…
Tech 5 MIN READ
2001: the year digital life took shape
iTunes, Wikipedia, Game Boy Advance, Mac OS X, iPod, Windows XP and Xbox—seven launches that changed everyday habits before the smartphone brought them together.
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Smallville at 25: learning to deserve the cape
The farm, the friendship with Lex and the long wait for flight: how Smallville made Superman’s unfinished years matter.
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2001 cartoons: five very different worlds
Timmy Turner, Zim, Samurai Jack, Penny Proud and the Justice League prove that one television year could contain five different kinds of imagination.
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Fast & Furious at 25: before the world got bigger
Street races, chosen family and a DVD on repeat: revisiting the small-scale thrills that made the original Fast and the Furious feel so personal.
TV & Movies 6 MIN READ
Harry Potter at 25: coming home to Hogwarts
The train, the feast and the friends: why the first Harry Potter film still feels welcoming, and why returning to Hogwarts changes as we…
TV & Movies 5 MIN READ
Adult Swim at 25: a home for the weird
Adult Swim's shows, text-card bumpers and late-night surprises made a television schedule feel like a place. Twenty-five years later, that identity still stands out.
Games 5 MIN READ
GTA VI: why returning to Vice City matters
GTA VI returns to a contemporary Vice City. The connection to the 2002 classic runs deeper than neon, palm trees and a familiar name.
Tech 5 MIN READ
Hotmail at 30: the inbox that changed the web
From browser-based mail in 1996 to the Outlook.com era, Hotmail helped make an email address a lasting piece of personal identity.