by | Dec 28, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The New Yorker The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table From poisoned monks and nuclear bombs to the “transfermium wars,” mapping the atomic world hasn’t been easy. By Neima Jahromi As element hunters have become element makers, the periodic table’s meaning has...
by | Dec 27, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from Showbiz 411 RIP The Great Radio and (Sometimes) TV Broadcaster Dom Imus: Controversial, Crazy, Completely Brilliant and Loyal to a Fault by Roger Friedman Don Imus has passed away at age 79. This was a brilliant, complicated man who had legions of fans and drove...
by | Dec 26, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from The Hollywood Reporter Camille Paglia: The Death of the Hollywood Sex Symbol (Guest Column) by Camille Paglia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnS5LYvaYhc The cultural critic and ‘Provocations’ author laments the end of the bombshell and asks why only...
by | Dec 25, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Projects
from ESSENCE Did You Know There Were Two Black Financiers Behind ‘Queen & Slim?’ WHEN WRITER LENA WAITHE AND DIRECTOR MELINA MATSOUKAS SAID THE FILM WAS “FOR US, BY US,” THEY MEAN IT. BY DANIELLE YOUNG Angelo Pullen and Reginald Cash The...
by | Dec 24, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from SF Gate Undocumented woman marks a year inside Maryland church Rebecca Tan, The Washington Post Photo: Washington Post Photo By Michael Robinson Chavez Next to Rock Creek in Bethesda, Maryland, sits a six-acre church campus shrouded by old cedar trees. For a year...
by | Dec 23, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from AP Baba Ram Dass, spiritual guru and LSD proponent, dies at 88 HONOLULU (AP) — Baba Ram Dass, the 1960s counterculture spiritual leader who experimented with LSD and traveled to India to find enlightenment, returning to share it with Americans, has died. He was...
