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HOW ONE KENTUCKY TOWN SAVED ITSELF

Downtown Hazard had lost its small-town mojo to drugs. Former addicts are helping to bring it back.

Heroes of the Holidays

It's not just Santa Claus bringing the holiday magic this season. As you'll see, he's got elves all over.

The Man Who Looks After His Wife's Ex

For him and his bride, \"in sickness and in health\" meant something really special

New Year's Traditions Around the World

1 MOST OF US spend the final seconds of each calendar year watching a nearly 12,000-pound geodesic sphere descend over Times Square in New York City.

Protect Your 'Holiday Heart'

This joyful time of year can also be dangerously stressful

Puff the Magic Pastry

It always rises to the occasion

DWAYNE JOHNSON THE WORLD'S BIGGEST Actor

It's hard for Dwayne Johnson to hide. Wherever he goes, there he is― as conspicuous out in the world as he is on the silver screen. But after two decades of playing a version of himself in huge movies, suddenly Dwayne Johnson is ready to do something entirely new: vanish.

PHARRELL WILLIAMS Designer of the Year

Riding along from Paris to Hollywood to New York with the Louis Vuitton *men's creative director, whose prolific and often prophetic contributions to fashion, film, and music have once again thrust him to the center of the pop culture Venn diagram.

JOHN DAVID & MALCOLM WASHINGTON A NEW HOLLYWOOD DYNASTY

The Washington brothers built their careers apart—until an irresistible project drew them together. In The Piano Lesson, they tackle a father's thorny legacy.

THE GREAT INFLATABLES RACE

In these neighborhoods, holiday cheer is blowing up-literally

Cookies for Forgiveness

My blowup was half-baked. The apology wasn't

FUTURE & METRO BOOMIN'S HISTORIC Hit STREAK

What happens when the best rapper alive reunites with the hottest producer of the moment? You get a back-to-back-to-back run unlike any since the Beatles.

How Risky Are Those Holiday Cocktails, Really?

The latest recommendations about drinking and your health

Mom's Wall-Sign Wisdom

She never met a plaque or bumper sticker she didn't quote

BURIED IN A SNOW TOMB

The snowboarder was off the trail, headfirst under 6 feet of powder. To survive, he’d need his luck to change.

Dream It, Do It, Done!

Your bucket-list goals, accomplished

A Companion for Your Wrist

Audemars Piguet's new release with artist Brian Donnelly, a.k.a. KAWS, brings high-art hype to the world of pop-watch collabs.

Golden Couple

LIKE MANY LUCKY couples, Tara Davis-Woodhall and Hunter Woodhall went to Paris this summer.

SHABOOZEY THE BIG SHA BANG

Shaboozey spent months at the tippy-top of the charts with a hit song about dealing with hard times the easy way: by hitting the bar. He sang on a couple songs with Beyoncé too. So we asked the one and only SHANIA TWAIN to help country's biggest new star make sense of his explosive year.

HANNAH EINBINDER BORN STANDING UP

With her star turn on Hacks, the comic turned actor has established herself as one of Hollywood's most exciting young talents-much to her own surprise.

How the WNBA Became the Most Fun, Complicated, and Exciting League in Sports

Caitlin Clark! A'ja Wilson! Angel Reese! This year, women's hoops emerged as a dominant popcultural force. But the road to sports-league supremacy has been long and winding. This is the inside story of how the W finally broke through.

JOHN MULANEY. KID GORGEOUS GROWS UP

After immortalizing the whirlwind of the past four yearsrelapse, intervention, recovery-in his awardwinning standup special, John Mulaney has emerged as one of the most popular comedians on earth. For his next trick, he's embracing his surprising new role as a suburban dad.

Katt Williams The Man Who Opened The Portal

In January, the comic delivered an instantly iconic podcast interview that threw pop culture into crisis-and seemed to predict all manner of messy celebrity gossip to come. At home on his farm, Williams explains why he said what he said— and why he'd do it again, and again, and again....

NO MORE ROOM IN HELL 2

As the zombie horde surrounded me just moments after taking down my two remaining teammates, the writing was really on the wall. Armed with just a chef's knife, it was clear I stood no chance, but I was going down swinging, hoping for a miracle... it didn't come.

OWNED BY STEAM

VALVE cordially reminds you that your games aren't yours

DEEP FREEZE

Endure a blizzard of tough choices and rough consequences in FROSTPUNK 2

WINDBLOWN

Dead Cells dev's new roguelike has me afraid for my free time

CURSE OF THE AZURE BONDS

These classic games haven't aged badly, but I sure have.

RETURNING KING

PATH OF EXILE II promises spectacular boss fights and a massive endgame even in Early Access

NEW HORIZONS

Building up REMNANT 2 outside the live service game grinder