"Pilot" (Season 1, Episode 1) Whether you've never seen Supernatural before or you're about to start your millionth re-watch, no binge would be complete without the episode that started it all. Written by Eric Kripke and directed by pilot-whisperer David Nutter, the first hour of the series sets up everything you need to know (or remember) about who Sam and Dean are, why they do what they do, and why we care about them so much.

They're the greatest jam band in history (sorry, Phish!) and one of the most enduring rock acts of all time — yet they've never won a Grammy and had only one top 10 hit during their original 30-year run. In 2015, two decades after Jerry Garcia's death, the Grateful Dead said goodbye with five beyond-sold-out shows. Along with the thousands of bootlegs of their 2,318 shows that circulate the web, the Grateful Dead have officially released 13 studio albums and a slew of live albums.

Steven Spielberg has just found his girl named Maria: fresh-faced Rachel Zegler, who went viral last December with a Twitter video of her singing a Gaga-worthy clip of “Shallow.” Zegler, 17, will star as the Puerto Rican girl who falls in love with white New Yorker Tony in the Romeo and Juliet-inspired musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. (Tony will be played by perpetual high schooler Ansel Elgort.

It’s way past midnight, but he doesn’t care: The slovenly, overweight sad sack with nothing to live for barrels down the interstate in his souped-up pickup — zonked out of his mind, blaring rock & roll and aiming to plow down anything and everything in his way. That’s the milieu conjured up by the inspired manic roar of Tad, a Seattle grunge band led by slovenly, overweight singer-guitarist Tad Doyle. The characters on 8-Way Santa, the band’s third and most coherent album, drive drunkenly into lakes, proudly wear smelly clothes, and mutter things like ”So messed up you can’t believe!

Grammy-winning Puerto Rican singer and actor Luis Fonsi has been a star in the Latin market since his 1998 debut Comenzaré — three of his eight solo records have scaled the Billboard Top Latin Albums charts — but aside from being featured on Christina Aguilera’s Spanish-language album in 2000 and opening for Britney Spears’ Dream Within a Dream Tour in 2002, he’s struggled to find proper crossover success. That is, until now: His Justin Bieber-featuring “Despacito” remix is currently sitting atop the Billboard Hot 100 and is making a strong case for 2017’s song of the summer.

Welcome back, rose lovers! How’s everybody doing? Have we all recovered from the emotional holocaust that was The Great Melissa-Mesnick-Molly Scandal of Early Aught Nine? (Hmmmm, I wonder what those crazy kids Molly and Jason are up to now. Probably getting used to the fact that no one cares about them anymore.) Well, TV Watchers, I hope you’ve recovered, because I’m going to need you with me for the next 13 weeks of The Bachelorette: Canadians Need Love, Too.

It’s softball’s lot always to be measured against baseball: The ball is bigger, the bats are smaller, the bases closer together. But the fact is that more Americans play softball than play the so-called national pastime — more than 40 million weekend warriors at last count. The Worth Book of Softball: A Celebration of America’s True National Pastime pays homage to softball’s primacy and tells us everything we never knew about this underchronicled game.

Paul Verhoeven spent his Hollywood years making florid, violent, sexy movies, all R-rated except for that one lap-dancing NC-17 number. You want to call them B-movies, but no one who was ever young in Verhoeven's America actually lived through B-movies. RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Starship Troopers, Hollow Man: These were steadily bigger-budgeted Hollywood products, with big-time movie stars and then later with the expensive digital effects that were already replacing movie stars.

According to its book jacket, David Liss’ first novel A Conspiracy of Paper is ”in the tradition of The Alienist” — that is, a period piece housing a murder mystery. The period here is the early 1700s, when Londoners lived on the brink of their first stock-market crash. The mystery is detected by Benjamin Weaver, a hard-boiled heavy and lapsed Jew whose father’s death was most likely perpetrated by some of the king’s men.

There was a period of my life when I was watching Jurassic Park on practically a weekly basis. It was the year after graduating from college, and my friends and I had a tradition of popping in the DVD whenever we couldn’t think of anything else to do — which was admittedly often. At one point, we managed to watch the movie more than a dozen times in the course of a single month and it got to the level that we were quoting the entire movie along with it like some crazed cult.