Secrets of Blackstar

from SPIN David Bowie’s Graphic Designer Says Blackstar Records Hold More Secrets by Anna Gaca CREDIT: Screenshot via DavidBowieVEVO on YouTube In May, months after David Bowie released his final album ★ (Blackstar) and died unexpectedly, fans discovered a charming...

$1 Million Worth of Hot Wheels

from Inside Hook SO THAT’S WHAT A $1 MILLION HOT WHEELS COLLECTION LOOKS LIKE Got a Pink VW Bus in the attic? Call your banker. BY EVAN BLEIER From Michael Jordan rookie cards to first-run issues of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, we’ve all heard horror stories of...

Monkey Tools

from The Telegraph Monkeys create stone tools forcing scientists to rethink human evolution By Sarah Knapton, science editor Capuchin stone on stone percussion: an active hammerstone fragmenting during use CREDIT: M.HASLAM The path of human evolution may need to be...

Black Metal

from VICE Photos That Perfectly Capture the Brutality of Extreme Norwegian Music By Oliver Lunn, Photos: Jonas Bendiksen Aleksander Ilievski from Imagination and Empty. Norway, 2016. (Copyright: Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Photos) The most Norwegian thing ever is black...

Leonard Cohen Gone

from Variety Singer-Songwriter Leonard Cohen Dies at 82 by Christopher Morris DAVID ROWLAND/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK Leonard Cohen, the Canadian poet and novelist who became a singular international presence as a singer-songwriter, has died. He was 82. A statement on his...

Hackman The Assman

from Vulture On the 30th Anniversary of Hoosiers, the Movie’s Director Recalls What a Pain Gene Hackman Was By David Marchese Gene Hackman in “Hoosiers” Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The success and long afterlife of Hoosiers — released almost exactly 30...