Now has come the time for the best of the best, the cream of the crop – the very top “What Is This Thing?” posts of all time.

DALLAS (WJW) — For more than 50 years, one Texas family never knew what happened to their teenage son. He simply never came home. Now thanks to a big breakthrough, the oldest missing persons case in ...

A decades-old missing person case has been solved after a Texas detective linked it to an unidentified hit-and-run victim found more than 50 years ago. Norman Prater was reported missing by his family ...

Before he was the guy leading stadiums full of fans through the chorus of "Sweet Caroline," Neil Diamond was a kid in Brooklyn writing song lyrics while bored in class. Diamond's expansive songwriting ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

In 2024, the song of the year was so undeniable and inescapable that we don’t even have to bother naming it. This year, the landscape is much trickier. Twenty twenty-five hasn’t produced a ...

Stream this list on Apple Music and Spotify. See The FADER's 50 best albums of 2025. As the opening track to their debut album, “Real Life” feels like ear’s way of saying “hello world.” It begins ...

An expert from Wirecutter helps Morning readers with their trickiest holiday gift searches. By Hannah Morrill I’m a Wirecutter editor focused on gifts. I often get texts from long-lost acquaintances ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

We say something like this every year, but now more than ever, a hit song is more than just a song. They’re always the soundtrack for years or moments in our lives, but now they’re also the soundtrack ...