by | Dec 30, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Vox The year reality collapsed into pixels What I learned from spending 2020 working, learning, and entertaining on the same screen. By Alissa Wilkinson By the time the friendly robot Wall-E makes it to outer space in the Pixar movie that bears his name, the...
by | Dec 29, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from BBC Pierre Cardin: French fashion giant dies aged 98 GETTY IMAGES Legendary designer Pierre Cardin, whose futuristic and stylish designs helped revolutionise fashion in the 1950s and 60s, has died at the age of 98. The French fashion giant, whose career spanned...
by | Dec 28, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from Slate An Interview With Willie Nelson at 87: “I Didn’t Ever Think I’d Get This Old” By JONATHAN L. FISCHER As part of Slate’s project on the 80 most influential Americans over 80, we spoke to some members of the list to reflect on aging, work, and life in...
by | Dec 26, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from The Atlantic via MSN Charlie Brown’s Inside Job by Caitlin Flanagan For half a century, it’s been one of the most significant phrases in American Christianity. A prelude to something sacred in an unlikely place: the Gospel of Luke, King James translation, as...
by | Dec 25, 2020 | Culture Music Art
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...