How the Cabbage Patch Kids caused a near-riot in the 1980s
[ad_1] The Little People concept had quickly attracted wider attention well beyond rural Georgia. Babyland even got a mention in the UK’s Daily Express as early as 1980, albeit as “the kind of lunatic scheme that appeals to Americans”.…
Decoding the Visual Identity and Design of Young India Recor…
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Currently reading: #7: Decoding the Visual Identity and Design of Young India Record Label Record collectors, like archaeologists love to dig! And just as archaeological finds reveal the…
Daggerheart: Hope And Fear Launches For Preorder With New Cl…
[ad_1] Today, Darringtpn Press, the publishing arm of Critical Role, announced the first expansion to the Daggerheart TTRPG. Daggerheart: Hope & Fear is the debut expansion to the Daggerheart Core Set and nearly doubles the game’s worldbuilding and…
Why Movies Don’t Feel Real Anymore: A Close Look at Changing…
[ad_1] Anyone who keeps an eye on Hollywood knows — indeed, has been ever more frequently and anxiously informed — that the theater business is in trouble. If fewer of us than ever have been going out to the movies, one reason must have to do…
Why this mysterious Klimt painting sold for $236m
[ad_1] Hidden for decades from public view, the artist’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer has now sold at auction for a record sum. Why is it so valuable? A mysterious and relatively little-known painting by Gustav Klimt is now the most expensive work…
With The Age Of Revelation Thankfully Over, The X-Men Face T…
[ad_1] The X-Men are currently bearing witness to one of the most tortured and unwated Marvel futures imaginable in Age of Revelation. When we’re all freed from this event, Cyclops will return to the present armed with knowledge to alter mutantkind’s…
THE FUNNEL IS BROKEN —
AND THAT’S THE REAL STORY BEHIND AI MUSIC Once upon a time, our voices lived in cages. A few shows.A few stations.A few people deciding what the world should think, feel, fear, or celebrate. Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson, Oprah, the nightly news — that was…
Why Your Vision of Ancient Rome Is All Wrong, According to H…
[ad_1] Everyone in ancient Rome wore togas, surrounded themselves with pure-white marble statues, bayed for blood as gladiators fought to the death in the Colosseum, programmatically imitated the Greeks, and, after each and every…
“Embrace The Uncarved Block”: Yanni Panagiotopolous On The D…
[ad_1] In early October, we put a spotlight on Ambition, an incredibly metaphysical TTRPG now on Gamefound that mixed together psychology, philosophy, and esoterica to create something that felts truly fresh in the TTRPG space. The game’s creator, Yanni…
Watch 50 David Bowie Music Videos Spanning Five Decades of R…
[ad_1] Each of us has a different idea of when, exactly, the sixties ended, not as a decade, but as a distinct cultural period. Some have a notion of the “long sixties” that extends well into the seventies; if pressed for a specific final…