by | Jan 5, 2018 | Culture Music Art
by | Jan 4, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from INTERVIEW Freddie Mercury’s Saturday Night in Sodom a night of debauchery In the colossal Imperial Ballroom inside the Fairmont New Orleans, Freddie Mercury—expert partier who lived by the mantra “excess all areas”—overwhelmed 400 guests at the launch of Queen’s...
by | Jan 1, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker The 1968 Book That Tried to Predict the World of 2018 By Paul Collins For every amusingly wrong prediction in “Toward the Year 2018,” a speculative book from 1968, there’s one unnervingly close to the mark. / Illustration by Robert Beatty If you...
by | Dec 31, 2017 | Culture Music Art
from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The Ice Bowl, 50 years later: An oral history of the Packers-Cowboys 1967 NFL Championship Game ON DEC. 31, 1967, THE PACKERS EDGED THE COWBOYS, 21-17, IN A GAME FOR THE AGES. HERE’S THE STORY OF THE ICE BOWL AS TOLD BY THOSE...
by | Dec 30, 2017 | Culture Music Art
from Smithsonian Magazine This Mass Grave Discovery Could Alter Roman History There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that a mass grave discovered in the north of England is a gladiator cemetery. But the most compelling clue is an identical site in Turkey, almost 2,000...
by | Dec 27, 2017 | Culture Music Art
from WIRED HOW A DORM ROOM MINECRAFT SCAM BROUGHT DOWN THE INTERNET by GARRETT M. GRAFF THE MOST DRAMATIC cybersecurity story of 2016 came to a quiet conclusion Friday in an Anchorage courtroom, as three young American computer savants pleaded guilty to masterminding...