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People always hold up their phones to record special moments at concerts, but they often never revisit those videos. Gigs, a new concert-tracking app launching this week, wants to change that. The iOS app helps live music fans turn their years of concerts, tickets, and photo and video memories into a personal archive with the help of Apple's on-device AI. To add a concert to Gigs, users can import a ticket, email, screenshot, or even a website link, and the app will use Apple's Foundation Models to extract the dates, venues, lineups, and other information to fill out the listing. For those who already track their concert history elsewhere, like Setlist.fm or Concert Archives, there's the option to automatically import years of concert and festival attendance by linking their accounts. Once the concerts have been added to the app, users can sync those dates to their personal calendar, get ticket sale reminders, browse expected set lists, and view other info about the show or artist. When the concert ends, the app reminds the user to rate the show as well as upload photos, videos, and other artwork from the event....

Newspapers publish the rough draft of history, as the saying goes. And what's the rough draft of the news' I would argue that it's gossip, as filtered by good reporters. Which means that gossip is the very rough first version of what ends up in the history books. I first thought of this syllogism while reading primary sources for my book of cultural history, and it came to mind recently as I dove into Lena Dunham's highly entertaining new memoir, Famesick. 'God bless a memoir that drops names'the more bold-faced and braggadocious the better,' my colleague Sophie Gilbert wrote this week in an essay about the book. Gilbert also laments that Dunham's second memoir fails at what her groundbreaking HBO series, Girls, managed to do: 'make broader meaning out of her experiences.' It's true that the book cannot compete with the show's ability to explain members of a generation to themselves. And yet, as primary-source material about the making of Millennial art, Famesick is hard to beat. 'For everything that was written about Girls across its six seasons'and it was a lot,' Gilbert writes, 'nothing has offered the access and insight that Dunham provides in Famesick.' The opening chapters describe Dunham's arty, privileged Manhattan upbringing; her struggles to master the challenges'technical, physical, and emotional'of filmmaking in her early 20s; and her first encounters with the transactional creatures that operate Hollywood and the trolls that drive social media. Her material is tightly packed but lightly delivered, her writing funny and vulnerable. But as a memoir, her account is also by definition self-involved'the product of a single perspective. As Dunham's alter ego, Hannah Horvath, says so memorably in the Girls pilot, she is, if not the voice of her generation, then maybe 'a voice of a generation.'...

Maybe you've seen photos of Tehran in the 1970s, just before the Islamic Revolution: images of young women going to work in miniskirts, of couples making out in parks while wearing bell-bottoms, of people at pools in bikinis. It looks like Paris or Milan or Los Angeles. But in 1979 the revolution happened, and now Tehran looks like something from an earlier century. Sometimes I think that our whole world has become kind of like that'going backwards in time. The religious movements thriving in today's secularized age are the traditionalist ones that dissent from large parts of contemporary culture'not only the Shiite Islam of post-revolution Iran, but Orthodox Judaism and conservative Catholicism. Young Americans are flooding into Eastern Orthodox churches. Many of us thought that the world would get more democratic as it modernized, but for the past quarter century, we have seen a reversion to authoritarian strongmen. Donald Trump, acting like some 16th-century European prince, has made the presidency his own personal fiefdom. Vladimir Putin borrows ideas from reactionary thinkers such as Aleksandr Dugin'an Eastern Orthodox, anti-liberal philosopher who rejects the Enlightenment'to justify his imperial conquest of Ukraine....