Culture

Jazz It Up: Watermelon Man

Herbie Hancock’s 1973 reboot of Watermelon Man takes his 1962 hard‑bop classic and pours it into a slow‑rolling jazz‑funk hit on Head Hunters.

Salud 2025: Television/Streaming Edition

We close out our final Salud 2025 with a spotlight on television that captured our attention this year. Some shows entertained with pure escapism, while others wove narratives that mirrored the complexities of our era or unearthed stories long erased from the cultural record.

Salud 2025: The Year of Kendrick Lamar

If 2024 cracked the door open, 2025 blew it off the hinges. This was the year of Kung Fu Kenny…K-Dot…Kendrick Lamar, and the resurgence of West Coast hip-hop

The American Revolution

Excited for PBS’s upcoming six-part documentary series The American Revolution, directed by Ken Burns.