THE THE Redux

from PASTE The The’s Matt Johnson on The Comeback Special and Finding a Way Forward By Tom Lanham Sorry for the slight delay, apologizes British composer/conceptualist Matt Johnson. But by all accounts, the ephemeral 2018 reunion tour of his classic...

Smart Forest Management

from AP For tribes, ‘good fire’ a key to restoring nature and people By JOHN FLESHER Brody Richardson, a member of the Yurok tribe, carries a torch as he takes part in a cultural training burn on the Yurok reservation in Weitchpec, Calif., Thursday, Oct....

Long before Christopher…

from NBC News In tree rings and radioactive carbon, signs of the Vikings in North America Wood at a settlement in Canada’s Newfoundland that was cut with metal tools helped researchers pinpoint when the Norse first reached the continent — well before Columbus....

VHS Wins Again

from The New York Times Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes? Despite the rise of streaming, there is still a vast library of moving images that are categorically unavailable anywhere else. Also a big nostalgia factor. By Hannah Selinger Getty Images The last VCR, according...

Mort Sahl Gone

from Deadline Mort Sahl Dies: Groundbreaking Contrarian Comedian Was 94 By Erik Pedersen, Tom Tapp Mort Sahl, the acerbic comic whose pioneering style paved the way for such boundary-breaking comedians as Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and George Carlin, died Tuesday at...