by Editor | May 16, 2023 | Weirdness
from The Wall Street Journal For Many Big Cities, It’s Their First Rodeo. ‘You Don’t Do That In Cowboy World’ Bull riding is becoming more popular in metro areas, and that poses hurdles—trucking dirt through traffic to the arena and teaching manners; no booing...
by Editor | May 15, 2023 | Culture Music Art
from The Daily Beast Rob Zombie’s ‘House of 1,000 Corpses’ Turns 20: An Oral History of a Bloody Cult Classic As the cult classic turns 20, here’s the story of a hellraising director who was given a blank check to make his gory spectacular, scared off film execs, and...
by Editor | May 14, 2023 | Literary News
from Real Clear Books Surviving Hyperculture By Emina Melonic Does the term “culture” even mean anything, given humanity’s turn away from particularity and toward a more fluid world of never-ending change? Philosopher Byung-Chul Han, known for his treatise-like...
by Editor | May 13, 2023 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Post Drugged-up Stevie Nicks, feuds with Kurt Cobain: Inside MTV News’ glory days By Michael Kaplan Not a lot of news anchors would be suspected of helping to trash a pair of hotel rooms and still keep their jobs. But such was the case when Kurt...
by Editor | May 12, 2023 | Culture Music Art
from The Drive The Legend of the Florida Highway Patrol Mercury Marauder, the Fastest, Rarest Panther of Them All Twenty years ago, the Florida Highway Patrol rolled out a fleet of souped-up Mercury Marauders for high-speed pursuits. BY JESUS GARCIA I spotted a...