People & culture
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Watch Bob Dylan Play “Mr. Tambourine Man” in Color at the 19…
[ad_1] It was at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival that Bob Dylan famously “went electric,” alienating certain adherents to the folk scene through which he’d come up, but also setting a precedent for the kind of quick-change musical adaptation that he’s kept up into his eighties. At the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, however, all that…
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How Return to Oz became one of the darkest children’s films …
[ad_1] Alamy (Credit: Alamy) Back in the 1980s, Disney commissioned a sequel to The Wizard of Oz which was as scary as it was unconventional. Released 40 years ago this week, it was a box office failure, but has since become a cult classic. The films we watch as children often leave the deepest marks.…
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Profiting from destruction and reconstruction
[ad_1] Right now, the dominant narrative of those that occupy political and economic power-centres, and those whose careers and lives are wedded to militaries, is that a new world war is looming, and that we need to get ready. One person with such a narrative is the Swedish commander in chief, Micael Bydén, who stated…
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ESPN Gives Teams Their Flowers With ‘Blooming Into Greatness…
[ad_1] Ok, so I know this isn’t really in our wheelhouse most of the time. Sports is something that we generally talk about when vampires or the X-Men play it. But it’s the NBA Finals right now and for the first time two relatively small market teams, The Indiana Pacers and the Oklahoma City Thunder,…
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Blessed by a Dragonfly
How Stillness, Trust, and a Tiny Visitor Revealed a Universal Truthby Relentless It happened in the most unexpected place. I was in the hot tub—just soaking, breathing, and doing absolutely nothing but being still. No phone in my hand. No music in my ears. Just water, sun, and silence. That’s when I noticed it: a…
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The Genius of Brian Wilson (RIP) and How He Turned “Good Vib…
[ad_1] This week, Brian Wilson became the last of the Wilson brothers to shuffle off this mortal coil. Dennis, the first of the Wilsons to go, died young in 1983 — but not before offering this memorable assessment of the family musical project: “Brian Wilson is the Beach Boys. He is the band. We’re his…
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The 70s rock band putting ‘Zamrock’ back on the map, 50 year…
[ad_1] Alamy Blending the style of The Rolling Stones with African beats and instruments, Zambian group Witch were revolutionary – then disappeared. No one could have predicted their amazing return. In the early 1970s, Zambia produced a unique music scene of its own creation. Zamrock, as it became known, was the southern African country’s take…
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“Who’s Next?” — When the Music Stops in 3s
Yesterday I literally said to myself, “Who’s next?” Not in a morbid way. But in that way you do when you feel the rhythm of life and death. When you’ve lived long enough to recognize that loss doesn’t show up alone—it moves in threes, like a cruel harmony. And just like that, they came. Wayne…
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Fallen London Studio Announces Witchy Farm Sim Mandrake
[ad_1] This weekend at the PC Gaming Show, Failbetter Studios, the team behind Fallen London, released the trailer for their next project: Mandrake, a rural life sim based on English Folklore. Mandrake will be their fourth release on Steam, after Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies and Mask of the Rose, You play the last of the Mandrakes, a sorcerous line…
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The “What’s Next” and “What’s Now” Culture:
Bridging the Generational Divide in the Black Community Introduction The “What’s Next” and “What’s Now” culture vividly illustrates a significant yet often overlooked dynamic within the Black community—the generational divide. This divide becomes particularly evident through attitudes toward elders across various industries, where older individuals are frequently undervalued or overlooked. While it would be inaccurate…