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On February 19-21, 2025, On Air Fest returns to Brooklyn for its biggest year yet: three days, four nights and six locations, presenting 80+ live performances and podcast tapings, exhibitions and multi-sensory experiences, intimate talks and interactive workshops to level up skills and more. Thousands of creators and creative professionals working in audio, visual and new media will all come together as part of the annual event's most dramatically expanded line up to date, and today, On Air Fest announces its next wave of featured talent.

From artists to industry leaders to the influential voices defining the medium, each session will be focused on the ways in which audio is being used to shift culture, build brands, and shape the future of storytelling, social media and self-expression. Taking over multiple floors at its returning headquarters of the Wythe Hotel, as well as first-time locations like the 15,000 square-foot Creator Hall at Xxv, iHeartPodcasts' Official Party at 74 Wythe,...

The Atlantic is launching a new podcast Wednesday that focuses on figures who are supporting those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The limited series is hosted by Hanna Rosin, senior editor and Radio Atlantic host, and podcaster Lauren Ober, with episodes released each Wednesday over the next five weeks.

The podcast also is tied to an Atlantic feature story, The Insurrectionists Next Door, which spotlights the Justice for January 6 movement. Rosin and Ober had been walking around their neighborhood in Northeast D.C. last year when they noticed a Chevy Equinox with Texas plates and with slogans on the back windshield that read, Free Our Patriots, The Three Percenter, Original; and J4J6.

As it turned out, one of their new neighbors was Micki Witthoeft, the mother of Ashli Babbitt. Babbitt was shot and killed in the Capitol that day as she was with a mob trying to break through the Speaker’s Lobby,...

“Fire Island” ignited a viral Twitter debate on June 7 over gender representation, but now the Bechdel Test creator herself, Alison Bechdel, has issued the last word.

The conversation began after New York Magazine podcaster Hannah Rosin tweeted, “So Fire Island gets an F- on the Bechdel test in a whole new way,” citing the lack of female characters in the queer Aapi reimagining of Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice,” aside from Margaret Cho’s mother hen onscreen persona.

The Bechdel Test is formally “a set of criteria used as a test to evaluate a work of fiction, such as a film, on the basis of its inclusion and representation of female characters.” The criteria tested is that a film must include at least two women, they must interact with each other, and their conversation must be about something other than a man. It originated, however, as a joke in...

On the cusp of a war for control of Westeros, “Game of Thrones” proffers a pair of set pieces to match its grand design. The first, in “Battle of the Bastards,” is a feat of careful chaos, in which Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) commands his forces to encircle the small army of Jon Snow (Kit Harington); the second, in “The Winds of Winter,” is an act of cruel cunning, in which Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) dispatches her enemies by turning to mass destruction. Both, coming near the conclusion of the HBO series’ sixth season, punctuate an accelerating arc, the once far-flung characters converging on one another as “the great game” nears its close: Here, the prestige epic emerges as a combustible crowd-pleaser, now as content to reward its viewers as it once was to surprise us.

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Even before therapist and author Esther Perel began working as a consultant on The Affair, her work was influencing the show. "We had actually already read an article wherein Esther was quoted saying something like, 'oftentimes when somebody in a couple cheats, it's not because they're unhappy with their spouse or their partner. They've become unhappy with themselves,'" co-creator Sarah Treem told EW. "We loved that quote, and we had put it up on the board of the writers' room as an inspiration." One of the show's associate producers, Ryan Selzer, went to see Perel do a talk and...