Atlantic Theater Company has announced its 2026–2027 season, featuring four world premieres from acclaimed playwrights and artists, along with a new Atlantic for Kids musical making its New York premiere. The upcoming season will bring new works by Mona Pirnot, Jack D. Coen, Clare Barron, Lucas Hnath, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck…
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Takway AI is introducing Sweekar, a pocket-sized artificial intelligence companion designed to bring the concept of a digital pet into the physical world. Unlike traditional virtual pets or stationary AI assistants, Sweekar arrives as a physical egg and develops through daily interaction. The company says the companion’s personality is shaped by how it is raised,…
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A new lifestyle brand is putting a playful twist on the traditional air freshener with a product designed to be stepped on, crushed and sniffed. CRUSH! officially launches with scented floor mats created to release fragrance through contact. Priced at $19.99 each, the mats are available in six bold shapes and signature scents, giving consumers…
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Fans of horror and film history will get a closer look at the inspirations behind Jane Schoenbrun’s upcoming movie Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma when the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and MUBI unveil a new exhibition in Astoria this summer. “Reframing the Slasher: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” opens…
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For generations, science and faith have often been portrayed as competing ways of understanding the world. Scientist and author Nathanael-Israel Israel, Ph.D., is challenging that conventional divide with a new book that argues the two can coexist—and potentially inform one another. In Boldest Scientific Formula of God and Creation, Israel presents what he describes as…
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For more than a century, businesses have largely relied on hierarchy, control, efficiency and predictability to keep organizations running. But global leadership strategist Thom Dennis argues that the model that helped build the modern economy may not be equipped for a workplace increasingly defined by uncertainty, artificial intelligence, rapid change and human complexity. In his…
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A luxury getaway in the Maldives is offering travelers a new reason to explore beyond its beaches and turquoise waters. Kandima Maldives has launched its first on-island “Art for Biodiversity” Exhibition, an initiative that brings together art, tourism and environmental conservation. Created to coincide with Maldives Independence Day, the exhibition is backed by a grant…
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The cryptocurrency industry is heading into a critical stretch as the Senate prepares to revisit the CLARITY Act, a sweeping bill designed to establish clearer federal rules for digital assets. The legislation, which would help define when cryptocurrencies fall under the jurisdiction of the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has…
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New Yorkers will have an unusual—and decidedly larger-than-life—visitor this fall when 50 life-sized buffalo puppets take to the streets of Lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn for Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi. Taking place September 19 and 20, the two-day public art spectacle will bring a herd of buffalo into the city as part…
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With HBO’s The Gilded Age returning for its fourth season this fall, interest in the extravagant world of America’s wealthiest families is once again taking center stage. For travelers looking to experience that history beyond the television screen, a new book offers a guide to some of the era’s most spectacular—and surprisingly accessible—legacies. In Gardens…
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