If Esquire’s 2025 class of Best New Restaurants knows one thing, it’s how to celebrate. On December 9, Esquire and Glenfiddich toasted 33 acclaimed restaurants and chefs with food, cocktails, and one ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today Science From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Piling on, stripping down, looking back, pushing ahead: Musicians found all sorts of uses for the album form this ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

Our film critics rank their 10 favorites of the year. By Manohla Dargis and Alissa Wilkinson Manohla Dargis It was another great year for the movies and another horrible, hair-on-fire year for the ...

In partnership with the National Basketball Retired Players Association and The Finn Group, the Okayplayer Lounge pop-up is bridging music, basketball, art and legacy. 15 hours ago One of the group’s ...

An exercise in global fusion, La Loba successfully brings together Spanish technique and Northwest ingredients, with a hint of Japanese flair. Located in the recently opened 1 Hotel Seattle and helmed ...

A century of Los Angeles flavor under one roof. From hand-pressed pupusas and fire-baked pizza to Israeli street food, empanadas and the city’s most talked-about fried chicken sandwich — we eat our ...

Judged by more than 120 experts from 45 countries, this year’s results put the spotlight on Mexico’s purest expressions of agave, unshaped by oak or additives. Tony Sachs has written for numerous ...

As a coastal community that welcomes visitors from around the world, La Jolla continues to balance its international reputation with a deep sense of neighborhood charm. Once an artists’ colony, today ...