Sarah Larson

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Larson

In early May, the N.H.L.’s newest team, a year-old Salt Lake City-based franchise provisionally known as the Utah Hockey Club, unveiled its official name and mascot, after considering such options as Black Diamonds, Blast, Blizzard, Canyons, Caribou, Freeze, Frost, Fury, Glaciers, Hive, Ice, Mountaineers, Outlaws, Powder, Squall, Swarm, Venom, and Yeti. Behold: the Utah Mammoth. Skepticism ensued in some quarters (“Are they collectively one mammoth?

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Larson

This month, the beloved British pop band Pulp will release “More,” its first new album in twenty-four years. Jarvis Cocker, the band’s founder, lyricist, and front man, has engaged in innumerable interesting projects in the meantime—an album with his band Jarv Is, collaborations with Wes Anderson and Chilly Gonzales, a BBC radio program, an excellent memoir, “Good Pop Bad Pop”—but the new Pulp record feels like a significant return, triumphant and humble at once.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Sarah Larson

Jarvis Cocker Is Out of the RainThe Pulp singer on conquering his fear of nature, the pleasures and perils of art and aging, and the band’s first new album in twenty-four years. This month, the beloved British pop band Pulp will release “More,” its first new album in twenty-four years. Jarvis Cocker, the band’s founder, lyricist, …

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Larson

The searing, funny “John Proctor Is the Villain,” which has been nominated for seven Tonys, including Best Play, centers on five boisterously articulate teen girls reading “The Crucible” in an honors English class in rural Georgia; a key moment features cathartic dancing to “Green Light,” by Lorde.

1 month ago | rcreader.com | Sarah Larson |Michael Helke

NORTH LIBERTY, IOWA (May 21, 2025) — May is National Nurses Month, and it’s a chance to celebrate the nurses in an array of jobs. At Iowa Donor Network, nurses on the team help facilitate lifesaving organ transplants. They use their clinical background to make quick, heavily-informed decisions on donor potential and transplant matches. Fernanda (Fern) Marrufo worked in a Neuro Trauma Intensive Care Unit (ICU) neuro trauma in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a Des Moines Hospital.