by | Oct 28, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from NBC News In tree rings and radioactive carbon, signs of the Vikings in North America Wood at a settlement in Canada’s Newfoundland that was cut with metal tools helped researchers pinpoint when the Norse first reached the continent — well before Columbus....
by | Oct 27, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes? Despite the rise of streaming, there is still a vast library of moving images that are categorically unavailable anywhere else. Also a big nostalgia factor. By Hannah Selinger Getty Images The last VCR, according...
by | Oct 26, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from Deadline Mort Sahl Dies: Groundbreaking Contrarian Comedian Was 94 By Erik Pedersen, Tom Tapp Mort Sahl, the acerbic comic whose pioneering style paved the way for such boundary-breaking comedians as Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and George Carlin, died Tuesday at...
by | Oct 25, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker On Air with the Greatest Radio Station in the World WPKN-FM—on which you can hear a Stevie Wonder song performed by an all-women jazz septet or twenty minutes of Tuvan throat singing—moves to a new location in downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut....
by | Oct 24, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from GQ The Secrets of The World’s Greatest Freediver With only a single breath, Alexey Molchanov, history’s most daring freediver, is reaching improbable depths—and discovering a new kind of enlightenment as he conquers one of the world’s wildest sports. BY DANIEL...
by | Oct 23, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from Louder Sound Jethro Tull: the story behind Thick As A Brick In 1971, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson set out with tongue-in-cheek to make “the mother of all concept albums”. With Thick As A Brick, he ended up fulfilling his ambition – and then some By Malcolm Dome...
