The Edmonton Oilers are once again vying for hockey’s biggest prize. In some ways, religion scholars argue, the team’s fandom represents devotion to a way of life − and the oil industry.
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Use electric fans as your first cooling strategy, and only turn on the aircon when the indoor temperature exceeds 27°C.
With its hi-tech format and team matches, TGL could attract new fans to golf. But it also risks alienating traditional fans of the game.
‘Lore’ was shortlisted for the Oxford word of the year.
Fan communities coping with a celebrity loss do several things that help their members feel supported and connected.
For the first time, players will be permitted to wear Guardian Caps over their helmets during regular season games.
For host cities football fans are simultaneously potential consumers and criminals. But they have rights, and fan zones are a good way of protecting fans, the public and the streets.
Despite being public figures, celebrities – like everyone – deserve a level of privacy.
‘Real person Slash’ imagines queer relationships between celebrities, and whole sub-fandoms emerge around queer ships of real people.
In my research into One Direction fans, I heard how shame is experienced, perpetuated and internalised – but it also provides the foundation for these close-knit communities.
Fans who were girls in the era of Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Twilight are now the women who have powered the success of Barbie and the Eras Tour.
Since 2019, fans of the TV series ‘Supernatural’ have flocked to Austin, where their encounters with 1967 Impalas customized to mimic the one used in the show arouse elation, astonishment and tears.
How will fans’ advocacy and commentary shape a reckoning about sexual assault and exploitation in the entertainment industry in Japan that has been exposed through the Johnny & Associates scandal?
Air con uses lots of energy – try these things first.
Rising temperatures threaten the UK, Switzerland and Norway with more uncomfortably hot days – new research.
Sometimes you have to let your friends know when they’ve made a bad choice in life but there’s a way to go about it.
In social media posts during the pandemic, fans posit their idols as loyal to the nation, the people and the party state.
How fans attending Chris Brown’s sold out UK tour are referencing race in their arguments against the singer’s ‘cancellation’.
The opportunity to place bets has changed the way games look, the way they’re talked about – and, of course, how many people have money riding on the outcome.
Extreme heat kills more Australians than any other natural hazard. Here’s why it’s important to keep an eye on older family and friends this summer.
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