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Bob Weir accepts the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year award on January 31, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Bob Weir was the boomer who did it best

Andi Zeisler
Waffle House in Durham, North Carolina on February 6, 2020 (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The artistic allure of Waffle House

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Katy Perry, John Mayer (AP/Richard Shotwell/Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

Our rom-com reality

Erin Coulehan
Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Kanye West (AP/Evan Agostini/Jordan Strauss/Zacharie Scheurer)

You won't steal music anymore

Stephen Witt
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John Mayer joins Ed Sheeran

Anna Silman
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Robin Thicke (AP/Alex Brandon)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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John Mayer (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

John Mayer: Still terrible

Mary Elizabeth Williams

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John Mayer (AP/Richard Drew)

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John Mayer

Chris Le

This week's winner: John Mayer

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Singer John Mayer rearranges his hair during his appearance on the NBC "Today" television program in New York's Rockefeller Center, Friday Aug. 25, 2006. Mayer began a concert tour with Sheryl Crow in Pittsburgh Thursday Aug. 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (Associated Press)

Dear John Mayer ...

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Keith Harris
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Promotional intelligence: How a journalist distorted a scholarly idea -- and ended up a CEO.

Annie Murphy Paul
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