New Yorkers' seven most common
anxieties, illustrated
Hopes&Fears talked to more than a dozen New York mental health professionals to find out what their clients fear most.
What Proust has to do with film, furniture and memory
Screenwriter Alex McCarron recounts the rush of memory that objects can trigger after personal family tragedies and discusses why film should be more willing to dig deep.
Testing the "God" frequency: What's the difference between 440 and 432 hertz?
Sound artist Patrick Noecker constructs a blind taste test to examine an audience's reception to the same piece of music played at both 440 and 432 Hz. This is his story.
I watched 'Ted 2' with my teddy bear and realized the world is evil
Artist Molly Soda and her stuffed animal "boyfriend" see the new Seth MacFarlane flick. She talks about bubbles, trolls and why she's been happily oblivious to this kind of entertainment for years.
Paul Klee painted Goatse before it even existed
Kenton DeAngeli discovers something disgusting in art history.
Final Fantasy VII: 20 years later, I'm ready for the best RPG of all time to be remade
Managing expectations, parsing the remake, remembering, hoping, waiting.
Did the internet kill rock gods? Mourning the immortal pages of my 1979 Creem Magazine
Waxing nostalgic on the golden era of music journalism.
WrestleMania, social media and the dramatic evolution of a franchise
Playwright and writer Christopher Sullivan reflects on last night's WrestleMania 31.
Myspace refugees: waxing philosophical on top 8s and page-view-rated music
Hopes&Fears's Mike Sheffield seeks out the wandering souls of Myspace.
How I lost myself to acne medicine
While I knew that I got the brainbuzz from minocycline, I never put together that it had something to do with the blank canvas daydream of a life that I was living. I thought that was just life.
