People & culture
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CAPC’s Favorite TV of 2025
[ad_1] Over the last few months, the CAPC team has compiled a list of our favorite pop culture artifacts from the previous year. Unlike most year-end lists, we don’t claim that these are the “best.” Rather, these are the things that brought us the most joy and satisfaction throughout the last 12 months. For 2025,…
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The 1970s sex scandal that led to a dramatic trial
[ad_1] The story took yet another twist in October 1977 when the London Evening News ran the sensational headline, “I Was Hired to Kill Scott.” Fresh out of prison, Newton recanted his blackmail defence and was now claiming he was paid £5,000 as part of what the paper described as a “sinister conspiracy involving a…
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Discover the World’s First Earthquake Detector, Invented in …
[ad_1] The Renaissance did not, strictly speaking, occur in China. Yet it seems that the Middle Kingdom did have its Renaissance men, so to speak, and in much earlier times at that. We find one such illustrious figure in the Han dynasty of the first and second centuries: a statesman named Zhang Heng (78–139 AD),…
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Where the Frontier Meets the Galaxy: The Western Genre and t…
[ad_1] I grew up on a steady diet of Star Wars long before I had words for genre or myth. I couldn’t have explained archetypes or Campbellian beats, but I understood the pull of it, the sense that something old and immense lay just under the adventure. Luke gazing at the twin suns on Tatooine…
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The story behind City Lights and cinema’s greatest ever fina…
[ad_1] Simply the best? There are, of course, many rival claimants to the title of the greatest final shot in cinema history. Planet of the Apes’ Statue of Liberty sighting, the slow realisation in The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s freeze-frame finish, the door closing in The Godfather, and Norma Desmond asking for…
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Marvel Celebrates AAPI Heritage Month By Putting Jubilee In …
[ad_1] On April 29, Marvel Comics will shine a special spotlight on the X-Men’s Jubilee in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! The iconic mutant firecracker, currently starring in Gail Simone, Dave Marquez, and Luciano Vecchio’s Uncanny X-Men, will strike out on her own in Jubilee: Deadly Reunion #1, a Marvel’s Voices one-shot written by Eisner Award-winning…
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MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40,000 Music Videos & Commercial…
[ad_1] MTV still exists. At least, it still exists in the United States, or in certain of that country’s markets, for the time being. A flurry of premature obituaries recently blew through the internet after the announcement that the network had shut down in other parts of the world, Europe included. But even there, some…
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The Long Walk Is a Death March Across an Eerily Familiar Ame…
[ad_1] These days, we see suffering streamed straight to our screens. Tragedy goes viral and real human pain is reduced to background noise. Every once in a while, though, a story reflects our society so clearly that it becomes impossible to look away. Francis Lawrence’s The Long Walk is one such story that hits close…
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Dani Plays Archaeologist, Rogue Fights A Snake Man, And Laur…
[ad_1] The X-line returns to present day this month after Age of Revelation ended with a wet thud. Free of all that nonsense, they find themselves living in the Shadows of Tomorrow. Ongoing titles like X-Men, Uncanny X-Men and Wolverine are back along with all-new titles and limited series in a new era of X-Men storytelling filled with newfound purpose, fresh initiative…