year in review

The Biggest Footwear M&A Deals of 2025
December 29, 2025
[ad_1] News’ 80th anniversary in 2025 saw a host of deal activity in the shoe space, including the biggest footwear buyout in the industry’s history. While a few financial buyers...
The Biggest Footwear Business Issues That Grabbed Headlines in 2025
December 29, 2025
[ad_1] If footwear firms thought 2025 would be challenging under a new presidential administration, they weren’t wrong. The year was fraught with many competing concerns and much uncertainty, mostly due...
2025 Was David Lynch
December 12, 2025
[ad_1] In the summer, the actress Natasha Lyonne relayed an anecdote about the late director David Lynch, in which he told her that A.I. in the creative arts would soon...
Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons in 2025
Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons in 2025
December 10, 2025
[ad_1] What’s in a like? That which we call a heart by any other name would be a retweet. (I am so sorry, mostly to my college Shakespeare professor, but...
The Best TV Shows of 2025
December 8, 2025
[ad_1] Fourteen years ago, Emily Nussbaum, one of my esteemed predecessors in the TV-critic chair, notoriously titled her Top Ten list “I Hate Top Ten Lists.” I’ve seldom felt the...
The Best Jokes of 2025
November 28, 2025
[ad_1] One of my favorite jokes requires a little setup. It’s from the first “Naked Gun” movie, from 1988, starring Leslie Nielsen as the bumbling Los Angeles police detective Frank...