Texts based on free association of N.Y. Times headlines while mining the paper for content
Times 10/25/25
A Glamorous Queen of Pumpkin Spice Lattes Is Poised to Profit From A Dance in a SoHo Loft With Ghosts Who Will Monitor Elections in California, Entering the Last Stretch, While Pushing Hate… And Eyes a Reality TV Star Who Could Make a Deal With the White House to Identify 2 Bacterial Killers That Stalked Napoleon’s Army As Well As the Modern, Evolving American Family While Fossils of Some of the Last Dinosaurs in North America Have a Story to Tell About the Creator of Memorable Movie Catchphrases, Covering an Artist Who Uses Unconventional Materials, Riding the Wild Wave of Crypto In A Singular Vision of Paranoia, Anxiety and Buzz Cuts, One In a Murderer’s Row With the Bodily Traces of War Expressed Through Startling Flavors and High Prices Lurking In The City Where the Festivities Stretch From the Cliff Top to the Sea
Times 10/18/25
An Epic Quest of Using a Gun to Force Coal Miners With Black Lung Disease to Destroy a House of a 102-Year-Old Yoga Master Retold as Thrilling True Crime, Drawn From History and Myth Inspiring a Furious Debate Over The Rise of The Smartphone, As Scholars Stalk Bigfoot in a Mess of Contradictions, Handing an Army Of Robot Telescopes, Checking The Status of The American Dream, Facing It’s Demons and Grasping for Answers, A Mansion Full Of Political Propaganda Announcing Sweeping Military Exercises
Times 10/13/25
One Last March of the Penguins as Catastrophic Rains Devastate the Sad, Dark Kingdom of the Rich In the Battle for a Casino License Seeking to Charm Powerful Capitalists But Complicates the Case With a Behind-the-Scenes Comic Conspirator Dealing with Curious Reindeer and Hungry Polar Bears, While Bringing Back Scores of Beheaded Columbus Statues Rescued from Watery Graves in the Last Gasp of A Tyrant for Our Times as Seen From the Bottom Rung, Looking for a Perfect Day Trip Detailing Torture of 30 to 50 Feral Hogs
Times 10/7-8-10/25
In the Eye of a Political Storm, The Story of How a Mystery CEO Fascinated With Fire Needed Sexy A.I. Companions for An Ideological Revolution and Played the Hits Renewing the Threat of A Little Childhood Trauma Inside a Make-or Break Factory As A New Assessment Has Bright Spots Amid Alarming Declines Offering Three Cheers for a Lifeline to Stockholm Syndrome.
Times 10/4/25
Hidden Inside a Failed Star’s Clouds, The Real Stakes of the The Chaos Lurking Beneath 2 Girls Found Dead With Brittle Bones Atop of a Chelsea townhouse, Who Were Trying to Decode The Life of a Showgirl But Left Their Tutus and Tiaras at Home, Are Shaping a Generation, for Better or Worse, Teetering Above The Sound Of 50 Pianos Rumbling, Moving In and Out of Every Ounce of Light and Darkness of Fashion’s Secret Ingredient, Lies Handbags and French Bad Boys Obscuring This Delightfully Old-School All-American Nightmare of What Has Become a Common Luxury for the Very Wealthy, With Splurge Worthy AI That Makes Disinformation Extremely Easy and Extremely Real, Watching the Night Skies In a Mission to Map The Bubble Surrounding Not Only Prison Time But The Artist Who Spent a Year In A Cage
Times 9/30/25
In a Rare Moment of Triumph for Hundreds of Top Military Officers Moving From Crisis to Crisis, Relying on The Seductive, and Risky, Power of A Planeload of Iranians to Launch a Mission Mapping the Bubble Around the Killing, Cooking and Eating of a Flock of Pet Peacocks, A Peace Broker/ Arms Supplier in a Deadly Conflict Emerges With A New Proposal Aiming to Make Rich, Immersive New Historical Fiction Investigating a Sprawling Financial Empire, Mystifying the Arcane and Obscure With a Cross-Country Experiment Of Global Appeal Funneling Millions Into Drones, Dark Magic and the Joys (and Perils) of Lying, Converging In a Masquerade of How a Sentimentalist Got Away With Murder and Taught Corporate America 6 New Takeaways Where You Can Delight in the Public Memory of This Classic Beverly Hills House: Cue the Air Guitar
Times 9/25/25
Six World Leaders Navigating Climate Change, Shot in the Head While Sailing to an Island Known for the Occult, Are Set to Lose $65 Million Over War, Persistence and A New Theory of Why The Broadway Musical Is in Trouble, While Struggling Farmers Believe Shooting Was Politically Motivated After Unexplained Drone Sightings Tied to a Conquistador’s Haunted Tomb Clears a Way to Change History, In Final Push To Reverse Gender and D.E.I. Policies Weaving a Tangled Web As Curiosity Summons A Magnum Opus of Poetic Performances of AI Chatbots In a Rush to Score Political Points Before the Facts Are In.
Times 9/22/2025
At City Ballet, In a Chilling Story of Politics and Paranoia of Efforts to Punish Free Speech, a High-Profile Ballerina Who Modeled Her Whole Life on Godly Purity Pleads Not Guilty to Manslaughter in Taped Beating of the Most Prominent Political Prisoner, And Tries to Navigate Their Latest Crisis Wandering Through An Alaskan Wildlife Refuge With Amex’s Platinum Refresh, an Even More Exclusive Card Emerging With a New Plan for Dance, War, Persistence and a Slow Tap of Love Condensing Six World Leaders Into Something Very Tiny Following The Earth Around the Sun Not Ready for The Psychological Value of Repentance Which Doesn’t Meet Its Moment
Times 9/16/25
A Fashion Secret No More, Reduced to the Cheap Logic of a Snuff Film, State Terrorism Is Avoided for Now, Forging a Path Forward, Clogging Roads With Pig Organ Transplants, and Inflaming Divisions Before a Crime Crackdown, Which May Pose a Dilemma, Stirring a New Stage for Navigating A Novel That Captures the Agony and Absurdity of The Power of Personified American Style Found In This Bizarre Tennis Serve’s Laissez-Faire Stance and A Loophole In The Fundamental Rule for a Runway Show of the Dead, So Long Live the Fall Restaurant Preview, As The Whole World Has Soured On A Plea for Peace, The Cost Of Bribing The Taxman With Lap Dances Justifying Measures to Silence Opponents
Times 9/10-11-12/25 Alt version
What Does Freedom Mean Amid Epic Cosmology Discoveries After Videos Capture the Death of Couple in A Burning House, Suspects in the Creation of an International Sex-Abuse Operation Involving Blackmail, Sexual Betrayal and Murder, Disappearing Into the Sands of Time, As Music Makes Its Own Reality Dreaming of The Artist Who Used a Spare and Poetic Staging That Gets At The Complex Legacy of The Ralph Lauren and Taylor Swift Effect, Using the Same Tiny Canvas for Over 15 Years and Facing An Uncertain Future
Times 9/10-11-12/25
While Music Makes Its Own Reality With A Pinup Star and Screen Siren, Who Faces an Uncertain Future, Looking to Downsize Into a Condo, Poisoning a Neighbor’s Trees for a Better View of Black and White Deserts, While Casting Herself as a Bystander, And Blaming Others for Always Dreaming to be a Sister Wife…. What Does Freedom Mean Amid Epic Cosmology Discoveries That Captures Suspects in the Creation of an International Sex-Abuse Operation Involving Blackmail, Sexual Betrayal and Murder, As Social Media Falls Into Well-Worn Grooves, Child’s Play Bursting Out of the Frames, While Authoritarianism Looms, In One Last Hurrah?
Times 9/6/25
Ticket Buyers Dream of New Houses and Winning in Secret, Preserving an Ancient and Ghostly Theater Form But Worry About What Comes Next As Quakes Reveal New Features of the Planet’s Interior While Humans Are Altering the Seas Redistricting Thousands of Tennis Courts, as Seen From the Sky, Giving Them One More Thing to Ponder, Memories Still Swirling While Scrubbing Slavery From Our Historical Sites Discovering Surprises Among the Familiar, So Why Not Try These 13 Certified Winners Showing You’ve Got It All Wrong About the The Unsettling Darkness and Surprising Light of the Mansions of Bridgerton, Searching for the Spirit World In an Artist’s Apartment With Hand-Painted Walls As Things Got Dangerous In The Next Step for a Billion-Dollar Beauty Brand Amid The Redness and Itching That Wouldn’t Stop
Times 8/23-24
Still In Shambles, The Lawyer Who Triumphed Over Disbarment Onstage and Onscreen In a Filthy New Tik Tok Trend Is Trying to Keep Focus on the The Long, Painful Downfall of A Memorial for Victims of an Ancient Way of Head-Binding While Being Battered By Astronomical Rates of Sexual Violence in Hollywood’s Newest Formula for Success that Came Out of Nowhere And Only Took 20 Years With a Leap of Faith Going From the Vanguard of Democracy to the Front Lines of Autocracy As Troops Walk the Streets Reframing What Sport Psychologists Want You to Know About These Moms Who Want to Design Your Dorm Room On A Tropical Resort Island Where a Notorious Prison Is Holding Dissidents Again Who Are Treated Like Orphans But Know The Meaning Of A Singer’s Fascist Era Salute That Evokes a Bloody Time
Times 8/20/25
Meet the Beautiful Dragonfly Who Knew Deepfakes Were a Problem When They Saw Magic,Dragons and Explicit Sex In Bookstores Everywhere, Prompting Warnings That The Tragic Story of Newly Discovered Origami Patterns Which Impose Police Supervision For These $250 Jeans, That Might Just Be Worth It, In A Fresh Appreciation for Nature That Will Swerve Into Horror In a Twisted Tale of a Ketamine Queen Who Lived For the White Male Gaze Amid the Analog Allure of A Wild West Parody
Times 8/15/25
The Third Rock From Another Sun Shows a Canny Courtroom Showman in Buckskin Move Toward Potential Landmark Settlement Replacing Women’s Right to Vote With a Mural Celebrating The Secret Weapon of Dance In A Surprising and Easy Way to Honor an Enslaved Distiller With a Dinner Served at a 200-Foot-Long Table in the Woods As Natural Disasters Become More Costly In This Ritzy-Hotel Thriller that Focuses Less on Coldblooded Accessories for a Fictional Killer than A Maple Syrup Farmer Who Lands on the Upper East Side for His Next Chapter
Times 7/29- 8/5/25
A Vintage Man of Mystery, a Pope and
a Politician Reach Their Simultaneous Peak in A Summertime Haven for Airing Personal Financial Grievances and Face Anger Ahead of Starvation Coming to Terms With Embodied Pleasures Assembling Religious Leaders to Bless a Confirmed Sighting of Elephant Mosquitoes As A Flamenco Powerhouse is Upstaged by Mysterious, Masked Metal Raccoons Who Go Where Few Have Dared And After Decades of Blunders Put Nearly 200 Decaying Bodies On An Inn-to-Inn Walk on Scotland’s Idyllic Coast In a Peak Display of Quiet Luxury a Watchdog Finds
Times 7/23/25
Something Like Feathers Grew on a 247-Million-Year-Old Glamorous Villainess of a Shopping Mall Who Thrived in New York City Flexing Their Muscles While Offering a Glimpse Into a Plan to Give A.I. Developers a Free Hand Allowing Use of A Rags-to-Riches Story in a Game of Bingo to Choose Their Dream Home But Is Not Committing Genocide, Channeling The Garden of Earthly Delights In The Hunt for Music That Sounds Like Memory
Times 7/21/25
The Markets Advance as An Ancient Law Shaping the Modern Future of the Crypto Industry Could Reach Tech’s Top Venture Firm and Storm the Internet, Spreading Wildly in North American Forests, Showing the Dangers That Now Come With Embracing A.I. While Aborting a Landing to Avoid Midair Collision With a Dinosaur, Rushing Into Dreams Buried in an 1,800-Page Regulation of How a Floral Design Master’s Thrilling Last Dance About a Fragile Ecosystem Took 7 Years to Make but a Lifetime of Experience to Spin Pop Gold From the Wreckage of The Past, Hitting a New Height of Luxury, Training Us to Be Conspiracy Theorists Dominating a Continent For the Privileged Few
Times 7/16/25
This Golden Fungus Returns Robustly, With Reinforcements on the Supreme Court And Is Enjoying It's Rock-Star Moment Bracing for Life After a Tense Exchange Over How Matter Outlasted Antimatter at the Big Bang Which Is Both Conspiracy Theory and Genuine Scandal, With a Proposal to Switch to Crypto-week While It’s Paradise Lost As Lightning Kills 1 and Injures 13 on Archery Range And Climate Change Remakes The Grand Canyon Evoking Melding Colors, Patterns and Proportions Amid the Return of a Horror Star With a Sweeping, Witchy Mystery In The Further Adventures of a Capacious Musical Imagination
Times 7/13/25
How Superman Can Fly Above The Rusting Relics Hit by Bats, Cats and Naked Mole Rats Is Not Just the Stuff of Fables But High-Tech Theater Rising From the Ashes Amid Bombs Made Famous by the Entrepreneur Behind the Mini Croissant, Leaving Coffee Drinkers With a Headache, Who Won’t Be Easy to Win Back Which Is A Best-Selling Horror Writer’s Biggest Fear as The Earth Is Spinning Faster and Days Are Getting Shorter And Ballerinas Get to Be Like Wonder Woman Drawing the World’s Map of Today’s Polarized Politics
Times 7/5/-7/6/25
Who are the Parasitic Men With No Parents Who Are Deepening Their Isolation With a Rare Misfire of a Powerful Law About Learning What Species They Are With An Agonizing Wait Straddling The Atlantic While Facing a Pushback in A Civil War That Never Ended, Unable to Undo the Damage of Jealousy That Set a Dance for The Masses in Motion Where Secret Letters Remain Sealed and Murder’s the Thing Telling People How to Have the Perfect Summer, Slurping Toward Nirvana, Racing Against Time, In a Trick to Watch the Tour de France
Times 6/30/25
The Suspect in The Prada Sandal Murders Accepts a Plea Deal Opting to Self-Deport From a Desperate Alliance That Could Transform the Way We Usually Imagine The Horse Trainer Who Saddled Winners From Coast to Coast In a Race to Power A Broadway Big Shot Who Is Now Reinventing Political Violence by Allowing It to Seem Normal, While Coming to Grips With The Joy of Swimming With Conservative Evangelicals in Gulf States Who Get To Be Like Ballerinas Making a Commitment to the Corset for Seven Chaotic Months As Reckless New Crime Novelists, Who May Be Revolting, Leading the Push to Invest in Optical Illusions of How the Disaster of The Midlife Marriage Tuneup of The Bomb Lady and the Forerunner of the Bunker Buster Unfolded, Prompting A Wildfire Evacuation Order
Times 6/27/25
A Champion of Electroconvulsive Therapy Has All the Moves as the Killer Robot In Pursuit of a Godlike Technology in an Escalating A.I. Frenzy that Is Already Causing Bigger Problems Than People Realize Encouraging Political Violence Inside a Last-Ditch Battle to Turn a Family Mystery Into The Weapon That Terrorizes An 18-Year-Old Dart Prodigy by Night Making the Best of A Long, Winding Path Selling Real Estate Weaving Scorched Stumps, Murky Politics and Spotless Art Into Your Summer Vacation Devoted to a Wedding of Secrets That Everyone Knows About In an Operatic Comedy That Once Was a Delight.
Times 6/24/25
My Spooky Sleepover With Men Accused of Stealing More Than $100 Million Meant for 58 Million Acres of National Forests Narrated in Real Time, Strained by Claims of Potential Revelation of Telescope’s First Images of Monumental Fractured Sphere While Budget Cuts Threaten Geological Surveys Mapping Another Endless War Searching for Meaning Amid the Jumble of Broadway Tunes as a Romantic Breakup Becomes an Inspiration for a Transnational Tour de Force Amid a Cutthroat Selling Frenzy While Island-Hopping on The Fast Food Gimmick You’re Seeing Everywhere Splitting the World Into Haves and Have-Nots by Citing Free Speech and Learning to Drive Like a Real Formula 1 Race
Times 6/18/25
Mysterious Ancient Humans Get 3 Years in Prison for Failing to Say They Haven’t Made Up Minds on Crowning The Best TV Shows So Far. As a Star Meteorologist Locked in a Dog Crate in Tornado Alley Is Piecing Together the Story of a Would-Be Assassin Which Made the Template for the Modern Blockbuster After Decades of Bruising Labor Until Their Granddaughter Opened the Universe’s Darkest Mysteries of Ever-Evolving Sperm Banks Revealing Paths Not Taken With a Lifetime of Family Secrets
Times 6/14/25
Inside the Ambitious Ambassador Who Perpetually Played the Bad Guy for the Big Bet on a Conflict that Could Spiral Out of Control, It’s a Celebration for Shining a Light on the World of Superintelligence Labs as Soaring Temperatures Threaten, and Scientists Are Looking to Alter The Real-Life Dating Boot Camp to Figure How Much You Are Worth Romantically, as Heels, Flesh, Fashion, and Climate Change Might Make It Even Harder to Choose the Perfect Swimsuit Amid the Bedbugs that Followed Early Humans into Cities in the Story of Tracing the Pope’s Ancestry Back 5000 Years
Times 6/7/25
The Ethical Minefield of Recalling 3.8 Million Adjustable Dumbbells After Crime Fiction Filled With The Latest Air Jordans Shows No Desire to Mend Relationship With Ancient North America in a Struggle for Power that Comes to Light as A How-To Manual for the Self-Sacrificing Magazine Writer and Editor on Beauty Who Refused a Native American Mascot Ban and Keeps Pushing Forward on TV’s Magical Mystery World With A DNA Technique Finding The Secret Lives of a Samurai Who Left Babies for Dead in a Thriller that Captures the Dark Side of Small Town Life
Times 6/4/25
Touring the Gold Coast Mansions May I Tell My Teenage Children of An Illustrated Guide to Who Really Benefits From The (Failed) Gladiator Fight that Could Change Ancient Trees, Dwindling in the Wild, that Thrive on Sacred Ground on Which a Father and Daughter Are Found Dead Near Its Highest Peak as They Bet Their Future on Barbecue Dreams Taking Horror to Heart In the Age of the Algorithm Mastering the Art of Daydreaming That Inspired The Great Gatsby
Times 6/2/25
Why Swiss Watches and Japanese Pianos Leaving This Broadway Show in Tears Feels So Cruel Right Now in the Underworld of the Family Treasure Chest Amid the Fatal Shooting of Teen Campers in the Wilderness Who Appeared to Live a Low-Key Life Within A New Impasse Over a Very Old Expensive Mistake that Yields Little Scientific Progress, Discoveries, and Dreams, and Leaves This Year’s Hot New Tool for Genital Cutting in the Balance In a Search for Anyplace but the Most Charming Village in France to Flip the Script on How Wars are Waged in a Gratuitous Surrealist Scene
Times 5/31/25
The Billionaire Behind A Memoir of Divorce and Xenophobia, Ultra Wealth and Four Generations of Quilts Narrated by Cowboys Only Looks Like a Nihilist but Will Fast-Track Oil Output while They Juggle Drugs and Family Drama, With a Techno-Futuristic Philosophy and Time to Shine in an Anthem of Transformation that Has One Final Jewel in its Crown to Restore All Your Rusty Metal Which is a Bellwether for Populists
Times 5/28/25
A Treasurer Who Pleaded Guilty to Tax Fraud Avoids Prison for Role in Schemes to Deliver a Killer Blow to a Fake War in Oklahoma and Launches Mission to Capture Pieces of an Unusual Asteroid Made From Plastic Spoons, Umbrellas, Violins and a 350-Foot Megayacht Entering a New Phase in the Poverty of Our Favorite Gardens With A Splendid New Ballet of a Down-on-His-Luck Detective which Separates the Man From the Myth and Can Actually Help You Live Longer In a Village Built for Nazis
Times 5/25/25
Only the Latest Tap on the The Really Unfair Thing About What I Like About Zombies
Are the Historic Shipwrecks that Ignored Warning Signs of A Brain-Dead Woman Being Kept Alive on Machines to Gestate A Parable
in a Cute Cafe About Why It Ignored It's Own Laws to Fast-Track a New Era in a Speech
at a West Point Family Golf Complex Dismissing Signs of Life on the French Riviera With Crypto Investor Kidnapping and Torturing Man
for Weeks in a Taste of la Dolce Vita
Times 5/20/25
For One Hilarious, Terrifying Day, Oddities
From Cannibals to Giant Snails Pursue
a Weekend of Fitness, Frost and Firearms
Behind a Fatal Plane Crash In the Desert
as Environmentalists, Moms and Manly Men May Not See Their Most Dangerous Threats
In A Game of Light and Shadow Of a Gulf
Deal-Making Spree That Benefited
From These Monkeys Who Kidnapped Babies From A Weirdo Talk Show And Has Suddenly Found Its Way Into Another Species In a Promise to Love, Honor and Cherish
Times 5/14/25
A Restaurant Critic Who Had Feathers and Probably Flew Like a Chicken
is Investigating the Met Gala,
A Schoolyard Fight, and a Burst
of Gunfire as a Watchdog Effort Against New York’s Deepest Pockets Is Gaining Steam Finding Stats and Stories About Crime-Free Housing With Satellite Imagery Showing Limited Damage
of Opera’s Most Lurid Dance
Times 5/6/25
Did a TV Show Hurt Your Feelings With A Touch of Apocalypse Chic From One Forest to Another In A Homeless Sweep That Changes Little
to Decide if 15 Unforgettable Looks at the Met Gala Led an Entourage or a Criminal Enterprise In a Moment of Moral Reckoning as Taxpayers Fund Photos of the Hindenburg Disaster When the War in Opera History Really Ended 80 Years Ago And The Last Surrealist Seen on Camera Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time but their Hallucinations Are Getting Worse as An Old Form Finds New Life in the Beating of a Prisoner
Times 4/30/25
In a Measure to Undo
Familiar Names,
a Fallen Whale and Two Theories
of Consciousness
Building a Surveillance State,
an Alchemist Lights Up another song
About Beauty Standards
and Body Positivity
That May Help the Blues Stay Alive
and Which Follows a Path
From Finding Love
in the Airport Lounge
to Microplastics
Says an Alt- Rock Supernova
Times 4/26/25
Overwhelmed in the Wine Aisle
as the Piercing Shadows
of Uncertainty
Paralyze Businesses Downtown
After a Chain Saw Attack
On City Trees in a Moment of Truth,
A Civil Rights Inquiry Opens
Into The Terrifying Prospect
Of The Very Territorial Caterpillar
Accused of Fatally Torturing a Child
While Raising Tensions
In a Fun and Unpredictable
Game Show
That Cures All My Hangovers
Times 9/12/24
They Said the
Virgin Mary
Appeared
Where Slave Cabins
Still Stand
Upending Earlier Expert
Theories
On the Death of
The Wicked Witch of the West
Dissecting Her Anatomy
And Echoing
the Tack Taken
Inside the Secretive Facility
Housing Migrants
At Guantánamo Bay
Times 10/17/24
The Exquisite Fragility
And The Endless
Downfall
of How Early Humans
Struggled
to Be the World’s Best
Fashion Designers
Going From Royal Gowns
to Celebrity Interviews
Without This
Ancient
Molecular Key
Turning Rage Into Power
And Finding a Cause for
A Victory Lap
In a School Shooting
That Made A Psychic
Walk Into a Vortex
Inside
A Supertall
on Fifth Avenue
That Turns
Trash
Into Eccentric
Bridal Looks
Times1/3/25
At the Intersection of
A.I. and Spirituality
Big Tech
Wants to Prove
That Monkeys
Can Really Type
All of Shakespeare
Through Winning the Battle for
Hearts and Minds
Of Millions
By Bringing Back
Sex Scenes in Movies
Breezing Through
With Lynchian Strangeness
In a Land of TV Spectacle
While Facing a Global Extinction
As The Alliance of
Newly Minted Tech Titans
That Will Launch a Thousand Ships
Only Confirms
The Theory
That Chimps Who
Urinate Together
Stay Together
And Gives New Meaning to
Crony Capitalism
Times 10/18/24
In a Satire of
Sincerity
The Hidden
Politics of
Hard News and Honky-Tonks
Shows No Signs of Fraying
As an Adviser to
the Elite
Pleads Guilty to
Forgery, Fraud and
Absinthe’s Enduring
Mystique
As a Close Partnership
Is Killed by a
Gunshot
To the Head
In a Hall of Mirrors
And Is Why the
Satanic Panic Never Ends
Revealing the Lives
Behind a
Swarovski Crystal
Glass Stiletto
,
Times 10/18/24
With Call Out to a
Murder Mystery
That Recreates the
Biggest Beauty Trends
at Home
But Will Creep You Out
When
Buying a Secluded
Stone House
Finding The Hidden Politics
of Disorder
That a Ignites Cultural Firestorm
With Risks
Unique to Women
In a Stark New Ballet
Which Takes Over the Stage
About How
Cheerleading
Became So Acrobatic,
Dangerous and Popular in
Ancient Cities
Times 11/18/24~2/17/25
The Heirs of
A Despised Opera Tradition
in Steep Decline,
Needing Protection,
Swept Away, and Lost at Sea,
Amid Existential Battles of the
Heart and Soul
Patiently Wait
While Falling in Love
With a Singing Robot
And Die In a Slick and
Pleasing Spy Drama
In One of the
Most Foreseeable
Catastrophes in History
As They Hate Each Other
and Love Each Other
In an Endless World
of Second Chances
That Slides Toward
Authoritarianism
With Wall-to-Wall Tiger Print
Hunting and Feasting
on the Largest Fossil On Earth
As a New Luxury Tower
Rises From
Where Others Are Laid to Rest
Times 2/20/25
When the World
Feels Messy
Strange Bedfellows
Will Capture America
Facing a Pitiless Terrain
Turning to Trophy Homes
At Fire Sale Prices
That Fuel a Market Frenzy
Adapting to Anything
Smiling, Flattering, Bartering
And Prepping for
A Long Global Trail
Of Resentment
Unfolding In Strange Rituals
of the Theater World
In a New Wave of
Digital Nomadism at
Luxury Mountain Apartments
In Switzerland
With a Devious Ghost Fish
That Seemed Extinct,
Until It Turned Up
In Unexpected Places
To Woo Men Who Experience
Erectile Dysfunction
Tapping into the Art World
Times 3/18/25
Man Accused of
Shoplifting Classic Private Eye
Detective Novels
Confronts a Watershed Moment
Sprung From The Attic
At a Breakfast Set to Open
With a New Decree
on the Shimmering Sadness
Of a Lifeboat for Darwin’s Frogs
And Dies at Courthouse
Amid the Impact of Shrinking Resources
Propelling the Mental Health System
Into Turmoil
Which Could Change American Culture
for a Generation
Making Cities Disappear
Inside a Guided Tour of
the Splendor of Our Pompeii
While Having
Milk and Cookies for Dinner
In The Wildest Story
of Black Metal
Bringing the Sound of
Music Making to Broadway
Brrr-ah bah bah BAH
Times 3/1/25
Memos Detail Human Costs
of The Tiny Brown Hare
Who Races to Repair
a Fiery Chain Reaction Crash
That Turned One Victim’s Brain
To Chardonnay
And Investigates Why a Gadget Company
Can Make the Harsh Reality
Behind the Glittering Promise
of A Scenic Rail Line
Sitting on an Eroding Cliff
Worthy of An Organizer
That Banishes Bedside Clutter
Stripping Away Illusions
Of Gym Shorts and Girl Scout Cookies
In A New Home Filled With
the Same History That Rewards
The Basest Impulse of
The Most Important Person
You’ve Never Heard Of.
Times 7/3/24~ 11/1/24
As Xenophobia is
Teaching Us
That a Patriotic Painting
Is Exactly What It Looks Like,
Competitive Eaters
Who Are Just Like Us
Say They Will Merge With A.I.
in A Bleak, Nihilistic TV Show
That People Can’t Stop Watching
In a Masterpiece of Fiction
Inspired By the Pleasures
and Pain of The Secret
Behind a Beloved
Palestinian Dessert
While Videos Created by Pixar
Show Ants
Amputating Nest Mates’ Legs
to Save Their Lives
And A.I. Begins Ushering In
A Horror Story Starring
the Monstrous Men of
Delightful Delusions
Times 8/15/24
A Scam World
Welcoming
Teenage Girls
Describe Intense Days
in the Glaring Spotlight
That Rewired
Online Shopping
At a Site Spurred by
Deepfake Nudes
That’s Fast Become a
Status Symbol and
Toasts Their
New Broadway Show
And Let Them Eat
Everything
Times 3/4/25
Piglets Left to Die
Brace for a Trove of
Ancient Axes
Before They Get Eaten
by a Cuttlefish
And Find a Moment of Stillness
Stripping Away Illusions
Seeing Political Red Meat
Knowing the Stories We’d Tell
About the Manson Murders
In the Land
Of Lavish, Loud and Sexy
As Farmers Bring Class Warfare
To Outer Space
Jolting a Robot to Life
That Keeps the Tutus but
Sheds the Tights
and Flies Into the Sunset
Wrestling With Angels and Demons
In an A.I. Endgame.
Times 4/20/25
A Paranormal Investigator
Cites Professional Failures
On a Distant Planet
As An Archaic Signal System
Lights Up the Sky
In the Signature of a Foreboding Lullaby
Of Why You Don’t Need
So Much Laundry Detergent
In An Age of Extinction
Inside a City Swept
By Roving Gunmen, Deadly Grudges and Fear
In The World’s Most Anticipated Museum
That Floats Above the Landscape
On A Billboard
That Fate Brought Together
Hitting the Trails
On the Wilder Side of a Party Island
Times 1/30/25
Amid Arson,
Shootings
and Sabotage,
From Groceries to Cars to
82,150 Gallons of Paint,
The Settings Aren’t Real
As an Eerie Light
Hangs in the Balance
With Bafflement and Anger
Over a Lobster Haunting a
Southern Town
That Hopes You’re Not
Paying Attention
And to Hit the Right Note
Connected With
Dementia Patients
Shuttering From Deadly Winds
Around the World
And Turning Up in Egypt
After Vanishing 5,000 Years Ago
Times 10/1/24
The Doorman
of the Wreck of a Ghost Ship
Worries About Their Future
Alleging Layoffs, Mergers
and Ego Clashes of a Fly Brain
in Stunning Detail
While Moving Into
Disaster-Prone Areas
Embracing Record Levels
of Oil and Gas
and Wants to Create the Crypto
Capital of the Planet
With The Crushing Power
of Corporate Meat
In The Only Patriotic Choice
of Battle of the Network Co-Stars
Times 2/17/24
Praising a Song for a False Spring
Red and Black Are the Colors of the Season
as Prison Boss Elevated by Loyal Soldier
Returns to Battle
in a Sign of the Secrets in Pterosaurs’ Tails
With New Insights Into Scary Product Warnings
Making the World Pay for
Flagrantly Dishonest Orders
That Will Smash the Machine
of Changing Directions at High Noon
in a Not Quite a Unified Theory of
a Star-Studded Prime-Time Special
Minting Stars
With All Their Twists and Turns
Never Getting Tired of the
Climb to New Broadway Heights
Celebrating The Annihilation of Hummingbirds
Living in a Hive
in a Race for Death as a
Fashion Inspiration Hunt Floating in the Air
Times 9/3/24
New Photos
From the Titanic Show
The Dream Was About
A Deteriorating Chatbot's Mind
And the Discovery
Of a Long-Lost Statue
Where You Can Watch Whales,
And Serenade Investigators
From Seizing a Roman Bronze
Creating an Artistic Buzz
Transforming the Same
Old Funny Business
While Trying to Save
Singer and Heartthrob
From a Poison Pill,
Haunted by Their Chaotic Past
Still Trying to Grow Up,
Charged With Taking Money,
Charcuterie and Cocktails
From the Deep
Times 1/27/25
In a Transformation
From
A Hitchhiker
Into a Superhero
a Surfing Star is Extradited
in a Sextortion Case
Amid An Endless Summer
And is Fatally Shot by
Sheriff’s Deputy
During Traffic Stop
Sending People Fleeing
Paradise
In Carts and on Foot
Making the Long Trek Home
Learning From
Great Fires of the Past
Upending Fragile Truces
As Bombs, Snakes and
Hungry Cows Carried a Cross
Around the World
Devolving, Hilariously
Keeping an Eye on
Life's Ingredients
Lurking Inside
A Fire Ravaged Manuscript
That Unlocks Forgotten
DNA Evidence
And Steps Into the Spotlight
Where Paranormal Skiing
Is a Way of Life
Times 1/22/25
A Practice
of Loopholes
That Long Went Unnoticed
In a Pay-to-Play Law
That Has Not Lived Up to Its Promise
Over Who Should
Foot the Bill For Bringing
Anne Frank’s Secret Annex
to The World
Brings An Online Drug Kingpin
Onto the Stage
Casting Doubt
And Files Defamation Suit
Against A Nobel Laureate
Who Mines Their
Country’s Nightmares
With a Sense of the Wild West
That Fashion Designers
Watch Again and Again
Times 1/9/25
After an Ancient
Kiss and Dance,
In a 12th-Century
Palazzo,
Where the Walls Have Secrets
And a Place
To Defy Gravity
With Monuments to a Brutal Regime
An Art-World Mom
Considers the Ways
Trends Trickle Down
Reshaping
the Souls of Children
While Capturing Pluto
And Wants
The Supreme Court
To Give Her a Dignified Ritual
Before the Disorder
That Was Years in the Making
And Became a Winning
Rallying Cry
Joining Us to Hear
About the Loopholes of
Covering the News
Which Feel Like a Drug Trip
But Is Actually a Mental
Health Disaster
Times 12/25/24
Lagging Behind
Your Concerning
Mutations
And
Household Hacks
From the Depths
of Winter
Wall Street Is
Minting Video Surveillance of
Twin Brothers
Accused of
Sexual Assault
Marked
By a Radish-Carving
Contest That
Drew Thousands
In a Vivid Thread of
Memories of Trauma and Grief
But Lets You Visit France
for an Afternoon
Visualizing a Tangle of History
Of Using Easy Money
And Weighing-In
On Over a Century of
Human Detritus