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BUY | “Stock Island Nikes” Both West Marine and Dick’s Sporting Goods sell these low-slung boots built for sport and recreational fishermen. The soles feature non-slip grip, and...

WATCH | Fyre and/or Fyre Fraud That’s right: Netflix and Hulu went head to head on documentary coverage of the infamous festival that was not to be. While...

LISTEN | Backstreet Boys Um, they are on tour. On Feb. 1, the Backstreet Boys — Howie, A.J., Brian, Kevin and Nick — dropped their newest album, “DNA.”...

WATCH | MOMENTUM There’s a new surfing documentary, worth watching twice, on HBO, called “Momentum Generation.” It’s directed by the Zimbalist brothers (“Favela Rising”) and focuses on a...

WATCH —‘True Detective’ Season 3 of HBO’s chilling crime anthology is finally here and promises to rival the suspenseful story arc that garnered multiple Emmys and Golden Globe...

WATCH | Bird Box This bone-chilling Netflix original has created an international online craze. The #birdboxchallenge has taken hold of viewers in the extreme, and now people are...

READ | “The Little Black Book of Workout Motivation” With a title like that, you might be expecting a pretty picture book with fancy-font quotes interspersed with tips...

LISTEN | ‘Tiny Desk Concerts’ on NPR These 10- to 20-minute intimate concerts harken back to the days of MTV Unplugged. The Tiny Desk Concerts (literally, filmed at...

READ | Mortdecai Trilogy Kyril Bonfiglioli’s “Mortdecai” books are as good, if not funnier, than those of P.G. Wodehouse in that Bonfiglioli doesn’t shy away from the funny...

LISTEN | “Twain’s Feast” Nick Offerman (“Parks and Recreation”) has a new Audible series out this month — “Twain’s Feast.” The centerpiece is an eight-course dinner featuring the...