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Producer Bill Cutler, center, directs Dylan DiMartini as they mix a guitar solo at the Record Plant studios in Sausalito, California on August 13 ,2003. (Frankie Frost/MediaNews Group/Marin Independent Journal via Getty Images)

Inside the Record Plant’s legacy

Kenneth Womack
A collection of some of our staff picks. (Photo illustration by Salon / Courtesy of Netflix, Apple TV+, Darren Vargas, Penguin Random House)

The best of 2025 . . . so far

Kelly McClure, Natalie Moore, Coleman Spilde, Melanie McFarland, Hanh Nguyen, Erin Keane, Andi Zeisler, Amanda Marcotte, Bennett Taren, Alex Galbraith, Ashlie D. Stevens
Cat reading a book (Jordan Lye/Getty Images)

We're banning cat books now?

Andi Zeisler
Author and cartoonist Alison Bechdel (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

Alison Bechdel faces her sellout fears

Andi Zeisler
(L-R) Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko and Garth Hudson of The Band, 1971 (Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns/Getty Images)

The Band’s secret weapon gets his due

Kenneth Womack
Author Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, captured in candid moments (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Lauri Gaffin / Frank Edwards)

The final fact-check of Joan Didion

Andi Zeisler
America In One Room (Helena.org)

One weird trick — to save democracy?

Paul Rosenberg
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during the Daily Briefing in The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Wednesday July 3, 2024. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

KJP ditches Dems, announces new book

Garrett Owen
Detective working at a desk in her office (Andrii Lysenko/Getty Images)

Stephen King gives us a relatable hero

Kelly McClure
An engraved illustration of pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock, with one wearing a MAGA hat. (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / mikroman6)

Why America is nuts: Blame the Pilgrims

Paul Rosenberg
A person reading a novel with a tattered American flag and President Donald Trump displayed in the background (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / FreshSplash / Rebecca Noble / imagedepotpro)

When a president goes rogue — in fiction

David King Dunaway
Generic picture of a businessman displaying empty pockets (Getty Images/The AGE)

Never date a "broke dude"

Daria Solovieva
Cher (Marco Piraccini/Archivio Marco Piraccini/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

The outfit that defined a career

Annie Zaleski
Lili Taylor birdwatching. (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Courtesy Mike Fernandez)

Lili Taylor makes birding fun and easy

Kelly McClure
Traders work during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on February 28, 2020 at Wall Street in New York City. - Losses on Wall Street deepened following a bruising open, as global markets were poised to conclude their worst week since 2008 with another rout. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)

Why the world stopped making sense

Paul Rosenberg
Amanda Knox at Salon's New York studio (Salon)

Amanda Knox: Being weird saved me

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Paul McCartney and John Lennon backstage at the Finsbury Park Astoria, London, during the band's Christmas Show residency on December 30, 1963. (Val Wilmer/Redferns)

Idealizing Lennon and McCartney’s bond

Kenneth Womack
Jennifer Beals at Salon's studio in New York (Photography by Jill Greenberg for Salon)

Jennifer Beals is focusing on queer joy

Kelly McClure
Special Collections at the Boston Public Library (Lucie Faulknor)

The case for saving America's libraries

Melanie McFarland
Portrait of Japanese multimedia artist and musician Yoko Ono in her apartment at the Dakota building on Central Park West, New York, New York, December 8, 1981. (Derek Hudson/Getty Images)

Yoko Ono gets the biography she deserves

Kenneth Womack
A 17th-century view of "New Amsterdam," before the British takeover that turned it into New York. (Courtesy of W.W. Norton)

America's fatal division: Not new

Russell Shorto
Singer Peter Wolf, founding member of The J. Geils Band, performs onstage during the Jim Irsay Collection Exhibit and Concert at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on January 11, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)

Peter Wolf was warned about his memoir

Kenneth Womack
Onstage rehearsing at an awards show whose set I don’t recognize. Proof that they are all a little bit alike (Courtesy of Bruce Vilanch)

Bruce Vilanch reflects on Oscars chaos

Bruce Vilanch
Rick Steves at Salon's New York Studio (Salon)

Rick Steves wants to radicalize you

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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