by | Dec 24, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Atlantic What Drives Writers to Drink? Seeking in the eloquent benders of Dylan Thomas and Herman Mankiewicz an answer to an ancient riddle by JAMES PARKER A portrait of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) sitting in an unidentified bar in the early...
by | Dec 23, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from MSN An Oil Scion Is Giving a ’60s-Era Dune Buggy a New Lease on Life by Hannah Elliott (Bloomberg Businessweek) — The centerpiece of Phillip Sarofim’s Los Angeles home is his garage. The immaculate space holds two of the most collectible cars in the world:...
by | Dec 22, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from MarketWatch Videogames are a bigger industry than movies and North American sports combined, thanks to the pandemic COVID-19 lockdowns expected to help global gaming sales rise 20% to nearly $180 billion in 2020, and experts don’t see growth taking a hit in 2021...
by | Dec 21, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from CNN Watch for the ‘Christmas Star’ as Jupiter and Saturn come closer than they have in centuries By Ashley Strickland The two largest planets in our solar system are coming closer together than they have been since the Middle Ages, and it’s...
by | Dec 20, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from WIRED Facial Hair Is Biologically Useless. So Why Do Humans Have It? Pubes protect you; head hair keeps you warm. But beards and mustaches seem to exist for mainly ornamental reasons. by JOSH CLARK & CHUCK BRYANT THIS STORY IS adapted from Stuff You...
by | Dec 19, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Independent UK Bret Easton Ellis: ‘Being cancelled has endeared me to part of the population’ After his recent collection of essays stirred controversy, the author has written the script for a slasher horror movie. He tells Ed Cumming why today’s social media...
