A Score of 1,000 Corpses

from The Daily Beast Rob Zombie’s ‘House of 1,000 Corpses’ Turns 20: An Oral History of a Bloody Cult Classic As the cult classic turns 20, here’s the story of a hellraising director who was given a blank check to make his gory spectacular, scared off film execs, and...

News Chaos

from The New York Post Drugged-up Stevie Nicks, feuds with Kurt Cobain: Inside MTV News’ glory days By Michael Kaplan Not a lot of news anchors would be suspected of helping to trash a pair of hotel rooms and still keep their jobs. But such was the case when Kurt...

The Marauder

from The Drive The Legend of the Florida Highway Patrol Mercury Marauder, the Fastest, Rarest Panther of Them All Twenty years ago, the Florida Highway Patrol rolled out a fleet of souped-up Mercury Marauders for high-speed pursuits. BY JESUS GARCIA I spotted a...

Mavericks Drowning

from The Washington Post The famed Mavericks surfing contest drowned in acrimony. Can it be saved? By Les Carpenter On a foggy day on Mavericks Beach, surfers look out over the waves. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — The wave roars like a...

MTV News Gone

from The Los Angeles Times MTV News, which chronicled the music and politics of the ’90s, shuts down BY MEG JAMES (MTV ) Perhaps it’s fitting that MTV News, a youth brand if there ever was one, never hit the big 4-0. On Tuesday, Paramount Global pulled the plug on MTV...

SETI 2023

from The Wall Street Journal Will Powerful New Tools Finally Let Us Hear Alien Civilizations? The most potent effort yet to find extraterrestrial life is searching for beings that may not want to be found By Seth Shostak What could motivate extraterrestrial...