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Mini-Mozart Heist Blights Anniversary Tribute as Thieves Make off With 210 Statuettes

Mini-Mozart Heist Blights Anniversary Tribute as Thieves Make off With 210 Statuettes

Published by Sam Flores

SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — More than 200 gold statuettes of Austria’s most famous composer disappeared from his hometown of Salzburg, officials said Wednesday, leaving a tribute to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on his 270th birthday considerably less crowded. The Mozarteum Foundation on July 15 unveiled 320 statuettes, barely 50 centimeters (less than 20 inches) high, showing Mozart with his dog. They were designed by German conceptual artist Ottmar Hörl. Within two weeks, more than 80 of the polymer figures had disappeared. By Wednesday, a total of 210 were missing. “The worst thing for an artist is when his work dissolves,” Hörl told the German news agency dpa. He said he did not believe visitors stole the works but rather that it was an “organized theft.” Hörl intended to sell the statues for about 100 euros ($114) once the exhibition was over, meaning whoever ran away with 210 mini-Mozarts has not become an overnight millionaire. The mini-Mozarts populated not only the garden of the composer’s former house, but also his living quarters as well as several pavilions. …

The Best Video Games of 2026 (So Far)

The Best Video Games of 2026 (So Far)

Published by Jenni Sidey

For our list of the best video games of 2025, click here. 2026 has been a strange, strained year for the video-game industry. The squeeze of the AI industry and the Trump administration’s tariffs has driven the cost of components so high that the price of video games consoles has gone up, not down. Seeking to curb developments costs, Microsoft has announced a slew of layoffs and studio closures. Sony recently announced it will phase out physical releases of its games altogether. Nintendo, having launched the bestselling console of all time with the Switch 2 last year, has mostly squandered its lead, with a notably anemic lineup of first-party games as the system reaches its first birthday. And developers, critics, and gamers alike are preparing for the long-awaited release of what will almost to be one of the biggest video games of all time: Grand Theft Auto VI, which finally arrives in November. Amid all the industry’s hardships and reductions, rounding up 2026’s best games is more of a bummer than usual. Several of the …

‘He Comes to Every Concert With Me’: Meeting the BTS ARMY Boyfriends Outside the Arirang Tour

‘He Comes to Every Concert With Me’: Meeting the BTS ARMY Boyfriends Outside the Arirang Tour

Published by Jenni Sidey

A horde of BTS fans flooded the mile-long pedestrian walkway connecting American Dream Mall to the parking lot of MetLife Stadium. It was Saturday afternoon, six hours before the seven-member supergroup took the stage for the first of two sold-out shows in East Rutherford—their first headlining shows at MetLife since 2019. And ARMY (the group’s highly dedicated and loyal global fanbase, whose name stands for Adorable Representative M.C. for Youth) had been waiting for this moment for years. Couples walked hand in hand wearing matching BTS apparel, some of which was emblazoned with the names of their bias (the K-pop term for “favorite member”). Their clear plastic bags—12” by 6” by 12” in accordance with MetLife policy—dripped with BTS-branded keychains and figurines, whose jangling foreshadowed the fanfare about to erupt on the big stage. I’d opted for a slightly more low-key outfit, but I was part of that crowd—and not just as a spectator. I am a card-carrying BTS ARMY boyfriend. I’d secured tickets to the MetLife show for me and my girlfriend because she …

How ‘Tony’ Food Stylist Christine Tobin Told Young Bourdain’s Story Through Chowder, Lobster, and Squid Stew

How ‘Tony’ Food Stylist Christine Tobin Told Young Bourdain’s Story Through Chowder, Lobster, and Squid Stew

Published by Jenni Sidey

Food isn’t immediately the focus of the Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony, a fictionalized account of how the celebrated chef and author fell in love with cooking in mid-1970s Provincetown, Massachusetts. But then, cooking and food wasn’t the focus of Bourdain’s life at 19, either. At the start of Tony — which is co-written and directed by Matt Johnson (BlackBerry, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie) and stars Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers) — Bourdain insists he’s a writer. When he doesn’t land his dream scholarship, Bourdain follows his crush Nancy (Emilia Jones) to Provincetown, gets a job in a random restaurant helmed by a mysterious man known only as Chef (Antonio Banderas), and learns how to cook alongside the rebellious Sal (Leo Woodall) and the acerbic Dimitri (Stavros Halkias). Seacia Pavao As the film progresses, Bourdain’s passion for gastronomy grows as he sees firsthand the creativity required to make a dish unique, the way food brings people together, and the role it can play in the community. Making that food look desirable was the job …

Bret Easton Ellis Books, From ‘The Shards’ to ‘American Psycho,’ Definitively Ranked

Bret Easton Ellis Books, From ‘The Shards’ to ‘American Psycho,’ Definitively Ranked

Published by Jenni Sidey

In Ryan Murphy’s The Shards, now streaming on Hulu, disaffected 1980s L.A. teenagers (played by the likes of Igby Rigney, Homer Gere and Kaia Gerber) deal with the simultaneous arrivals of an unsettling and attractive new student and a neighborhood serial killer. The show is adapted from the 2023 novel of the same name by American writer Bret Easton Ellis, who also executive produced. Ellis’ most famous (and infamous) work is American Psycho, a controversial cult hit on publication in 1991, adapted nine years later into a cult film starring Christian Bale. Don’t sleep on the rest of his work, though. Violent and visceral though much of it is, it blends fiction thoroughly and artfully with fact (plus, there’s roughly one mention of GQ per book—thanks, Bret). Here’s our rundown, from worst to best. 8. Imperial Bedrooms (2010) With eight fiction books to choose from, can any of them be called a “deep cut”? We’re going to anyway. Deep cut Imperial Bedrooms is Ellis’ 2010 sequel to his debut, Less Than Zero, revisiting its cast …

‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 Finale: The Beginning of the End Is Here

‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 Finale: The Beginning of the End Is Here

Published by Jenni Sidey

This story contains spoilers for the season three finale of House of the Dragon and for elements of its source material, Fire & Blood. House of the Dragon is in the endgame now. Tonight’s episode brought the best season of the Game of Thrones prequel—and a banner year for the franchise—to a violent, bloody, and tragic close. Not unlike the season premiere, the House of the Dragon finale featured major deaths and a massive battle sequence, a fitting conclusion to a season that delivered on the stakes of a massive civil war that continues to swallow up everyone in its wake. But even in the midst of that battle, the finale kept its eyes on some critical and emotional character beats, managing to strike a good balance between grand scale and intimate relationships. If it feels as if the show is bringing its dragons home to roost, that’s for a reason. Showrunner Ryan Condal (who co-wrote the finale with Ti Mikkel and direction from Andrij Parekh) is on the record that season four, likely to …

Brad Pitt and a ‘Game of Thrones’ Creator Made a Trojan-War Blockbuster 20 Years Ago (And It Wasn’t Half Bad)

Brad Pitt and a ‘Game of Thrones’ Creator Made a Trojan-War Blockbuster 20 Years Ago (And It Wasn’t Half Bad)

Published by Jenni Sidey

This is an edition of the weekly newsletter Tap In, GQ senior associate editor Frazier Tharpe’s final word on the most heated online discourse about music, movies, and TV. Sign up here to get it free. In another timeline, we would’ve gotten the first true blockbuster adaptation of The Odyssey about 20 years ago, probably starring Sean Bean—one of the all-time great swords-and-sandal character actors (shout out Boromir, shout out Ned Stark)—as the titular journeyman. Alas, that wasn’t the will of the [Hollywood] gods. Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy, a loose adaptation of the Illiad with Bean in a supporting role as Odysseus alongside Brad Pitt’s Achilles, was a commercial hit—one of the highest-grossing films of 2004, in fact—but the reviews were so tepid that everyone involved seems to have pretty much washed their hands of the project, dried them on some loose bills from that half-billion-dollar haul, and moved on. If the reception had been better, I’m almost certain some exec would have cracked the Sparknotes on Homer’s epic and got to work developing The Odyssey …

5 (Actually Good) Things Coming to Netflix in August

5 (Actually Good) Things Coming to Netflix in August

Published by Jenni Sidey

Netflix be damned, this has been a summer for the ages at the multiplex. Literally everyone has headed out to see Christopher Nolan go full Christopher Nolan in his mythic epic The Odyssey, indie horror has had its time in the sun with Obsession and Backrooms, and just a week into its run, the new Spider-Man film has already hoarded piles of cash bigger than the Himalayas. It’s great that we’re all going out again, especially to the movies; I for one missed the constant rustling of bags and low-level chatter from the people in the row ahead (they’re always in the row ahead). But a night in is always good value, too—and there’s plenty coming to Netflix in August to keep us entertained. Past Lives’s Greta Lee and Civil War’s Wagner Moura, both stars whose stocks are on the rise, lead a twisty new thriller in The Last House, which sounds very M. Night Shyamalan-coded (complimentary). For football nuts missing the World Cup, there’s a three-part docuseries about José Mourinho, a figure of endless …