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Vinyl just logged its 19th straight year of U.S. sales growth, RIAA data shows, even though digital audio wins on nearly every measurable spec. The real explanation has little to do with sound.

A dry, hot stretch of weeks has pushed North Carolina into its worst drought in nearly two decades, draining the Triangle region's main reservoirs along the way.

From The Abandons to Terminator Zero, Netflix's newest crop of one-season cancellations traces back to how streamers pay for hits, and how they measure them.

NOAA gives the 2026 Atlantic season a 55% chance of running below normal, largely because of a strengthening El Nino. The forecast comes with an explicit caveat: it only takes one storm.

Netflix raised prices for the second time in just over a year in March 2026, days after walking away from an $82.7 billion Warner Bros. Discovery bid. It's part of a wider pattern across every major streamer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

No bridesmaids, a comedian at the altar and a couture gown: the pop star and the NFL tight end made it official in Manhattan.

Seven years on, Madonna's sequel to her 2005 classic reunites her with Stuart Price, and reckons with grief between the beats.

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.

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.