by | Jan 12, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times Taylor Negron, of ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High,’ Dies at 57 By DAVE ITZKOFF Taylor Negron, a comedian and actor who described his style as “California Gothic” and who brought a funereal, straight-faced sensibility to a career’s worth of...
by | Jan 10, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from Paste Magazine The Internet Arcade Releases More Than 2,000 MS-DOS Games By Jeff Pearson Back in November of last year, the Internet Archive launched a digital archive of more than 900 famous arcade games to be played for free online, titled the Internet Arcade....
by | Jan 8, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from Nautilus The Strange Inevitability of Evolution Good solutions to biology’s problems are astonishingly plentiful. BY PHILIP BALL / ILLUSTRATION BY JON HAN Is the natural world creative? Just take a look around it. Look at the brilliant plumage of tropical birds,...
by | Dec 28, 2014 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The New Yorker The Age of Asteroids BY JONATHAN BLITZER A view of the asteroid Lutetia from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft. CREDITIMAGE FROM THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY Brian May, the longtime guitarist of the rock band Queen, is also an...
by | Dec 27, 2014 | Culture Music Art
from Paste Magazine Netflix is Producing an Original Nina Simone Documentary By Christine Campbell Netflix has taken on a Liz Garbus documentary detailing the life of iconic songstress and civil rights activist, Nina Simone. The project, to be called What Happened,...
by | Dec 25, 2014 | Culture Music Art
from The Wall Street Journal Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God The odds of life existing on another planet grow ever longer. Intelligent design, anyone? By ERIC METAXAS In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the...
