Nestled in a quiet, tree-lined corner of Dupont Circle, ching ching CHA is a quaint tea house ready to take its patrons on a journey through traditional Chinese teas.

Dancing with the Stars has perfected a particular kind of contestant: the lovable older man with two left feet. He smiles, shuffles through a routine, makes a joke about his knees, and the audience eats it up. The judges give him a five out of 10, but America gives him another week.

Robert Pattinson’s breakout role has remained iconic, but through a modern lens, we can fully see how irredeemable Edward is.

"Quadeca is not a ghost or a sailor as he was on his previous two albums. For the first time in a long time, he is himself: Benjamin Lasky."

On September 23, 2026, just two days before it would be released, Taylor Swift announced The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore.

For these precious minutes, I simply was, as William Wordsworth writes, “Beneath a tree, slackening my thoughts by choice / And settling into gentler happiness.” This, I fear, is becoming an increasingly unusual experience. When was the last time you allowed yourself to exist without music in your ears, your phone’s light in your eyes, or your assignments in the back of your mind?

I’m Lily Saal with The Georgetown Independent, and we’re doing a story on Primetime (2026), an A24 thriller directed by Lance Oppenheim. You see how this looks, right?

I was thoroughly taken aback while first watching the music video for Pylon’s lead single “Sun Has Set”: in a fit of rage, Beatrice Laus (known on stage as beabadoobee) smashes in a car’s windshield with a golf club while lyrically ripping apart a person she’s severed ties with.

I have the Instagram feed of a homebody teenage girl, but the YouTube algorithm of a late-20s ex-frat bro. The latter led me to the Friday Beers series Cold Cases, which I’ve now been obsessed with for the last month and a half.

When I sat down with my large popcorn, all soybean-oiled up, along with my perfectly crafted triple flavor Icee + Coke Zero (no sugar! #healthconscious) float, I was already drafting my Instagram story gushing about how I was going to bet 10k on Kalshi that it would win Best Picture. But that’s not what happened.