Maya Calder
Heat Advisory or Extreme Heat Warning? What the NWS Renamed in 2025
The National Weather Service quietly retired "Excessive Heat Warning" in 2025. Here's what the new terms mean, and the exact thresholds regional offices use to issue them.
Why Movie Ticket Prices Started Changing by Showtime
AMC spent a century of flat movie pricing and then broke it, charging more for in-demand films and, briefly, for better seats. Here's how the industry's experiment actually went.
Why concert tickets sell out in seconds: holds, presales, bots
Tickets do not vanish because 20,000 people were faster than you. Most of them were never offered, and software took a large share of what was left.
Wet bulb, heat index or dew point: which number matters
Three humidity-adjusted heat numbers dominate the summer forecast, and they answer different questions. The one everybody quotes assumes you are standing in the shade.
Do Concert Tickets Get Cheaper Closer to the Date?
One data set says buyers who wait until the day of the show pay a third less than average. Another says day-of fire sales are mostly a myth. Reconciling them is the whole answer.
Why Your AC Can't Keep Up When It's 100 Degrees Outside
A central AC running flat out at 79 degrees on a 99-degree afternoon is usually doing exactly what it was engineered to do. The symptom that actually signals a fault is different, and easy to miss.
How to Avoid Ticketmaster Fees on Concert Tickets
The face price is never the price. A practical guide to why concert fees balloon at checkout, and the handful of moves that actually shrink them.
Does Closing Air Vents in Unused Rooms Save Money?
Closing vents in unused rooms feels like it should cut your bill. The physics of your ductwork says otherwise, and the habit can quietly damage your HVAC system.
What Is a Heat Dome, and Why Is It So Dangerous?
A heat dome is the stalled high-pressure lid behind record-breaking heat waves. Here is how it forms, why humidity makes it deadly, and how long it lasts.
Why Concert Ticket Prices Swing So Wildly: Dynamic Pricing Explained
A Green Day ticket that hit A$500 mid-queue, an Oasis onsale that rose by hundreds of pounds - dynamic pricing turned buying a concert ticket into a live auction. Here's how it works and why it persists.
Category 5 Typhoon Bavi Closes In on Guam With 160 mph Winds
Shelters are filling and the ports are shut as a Category 5-equivalent storm bears down on Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, with landfall due Monday.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Marry at Madison Square Garden
No bridesmaids, a comedian at the altar and a couture gown: the pop star and the NFL tight end made it official in Manhattan.
Madonna Returns to the Dance Floor With 'Confessions II'
Seven years on, Madonna's sequel to her 2005 classic reunites her with Stuart Price, and reckons with grief between the beats.
Heat Dome Threatens Record Highs From D.C. to New York by July 4
More than 165 million Americans face major or extreme heat risk this week as a record-threatening heat dome settles over the East Coast and Midwest through the July Fourth weekend — and complicates World Cup matches.
India Logs Its Fifth-Driest June Since 1901 as Monsoon Lags
Rain ran nearly 40% below normal for the month, with no low-pressure systems forming and El Nino building, before the monsoon finally turned toward Delhi.
Four Dead as Flash Floods Slam Kentucky; Beshear Declares Emergency
Six to seven inches of rain in hours killed at least four people and forced dozens of water rescues across central Kentucky.
Europe's Heat Pushes East as Germany Sets a 41.3 C Record
A record-breaking heat dome that has killed dozens in Western Europe is sliding east, with Germany and Poland bracing for the weekend peak.
Supergirl Opens to a $50M Test as Toy Story 5 Holds the Box Office
DC's reboot lands Friday with a respectable number that still may not win the weekend. The math around it tells the more interesting story.
Madonna Says a Budget Fight With Universal Killed Her Biopic
Madonna says a falling out with Universal Pictures over budget sank the self-directed biopic that was set to star Julia Garner, after years of scripts and casting.
France's Grid Buckles in the Heat as 68,000 Lose Power
A heat-stressed transformer failure in Brittany cut power to tens of thousands of homes as France logged its hottest day on record and Europe's heatwave spread north.