by | May 15, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Mirth
from VICE ‘Fuck This Court’: We Obtained Larry Flynt’s FBI File and It’s Pretty Wild The 322-page file contains a litany of events from John DeLorean’s cocaine bust to an alleged effort by Flynt to blow himself up in front of the Supreme Court. By Irving Alpert When...
by | May 14, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The New Yorker The Mysterious Origins of the Cerne Abbas Giant On a hillside ages ago, people inscribed a naked man with a twenty-six-foot-long erect penis. Why did they do it? By Rebecca Mead The sun was still low in the sky on the spring morning last...
by | May 13, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from Audubon Reconnecting the Colorado River to the Sea Binational Water Conservation Making the Colorado River More Sustainable for People and Birds By Jennifer Pitt Delivery of water for the environment in the Colorado River Delta, May 3, 2021. Photo: Adrián...
by | May 11, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from Architectural Digest Revealed: The Secret History Behind Edvard Munch’s The Scream A previously unnoticed sentence etched in a top corner of the painting has scholars debating who wrote the words, and why they might’ve done it By Nick Mafi Edvard Munch’s The...
by | May 10, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from Reuters Da Vinci’s ‘Head of Bear’ drawing seen fetching up to $16 mln A drawing of a bear’s head by Leonardo da Vinci is seen fetching up to $16.7 million, potentially setting a record, when it heads to auction in July, Christie’s said on Saturday. Measuring 7 cm...