People & culture

  • The Last of Us Struggles With An Incomplete Story

    [ad_1] After The Last of Us took a bit of a breather from the plot with a flashback episode showing the degradation of Joel and Ellie’s relationship, the finale was left with the tall task of getting season two to a natural endpoint. There was considerable ground to cover before credits rolled on this one,…

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  • Fun Glow In The Dark Games (Indoor & Outdoor Games)

    [ad_1] Follow us on Social Media Last Updated on March 14, 2025 by Jella Erhard The coolest and most fun glow in the dark games for kids and adults. Try indoor and outdoor glow in the dark party games on your next game night with your family and friends. PIN me for later   Best…

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  • Not Just Bronze:

    Not Just Bronze:

    What Grounded in the Stars Revealed About Us By D. Gilmore I came to write about art.But I stayed to witness a war. Not a war of bullets—but of ideas. Not waged with fists—but with feelings. And the battlefield? A 12-foot statue. A Black woman in bronze. Her hands on her hips. Her back straight.…

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  • A 3D Model Reveals What the Parthenon and Its Interior Looke…

    [ad_1] Stand­ing atop the Acrop­o­lis in Athens as it has for near­ly 2,500 years now, the Parthenon remains an impres­sive sight indeed. Not that those two and a half mil­len­nia have been kind to the place: one of the most famous ruins of the ancient world is still, after all, a ruin. But it does…

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  • A Defense of Physical Media in a Digital Age

    [ad_1] I’m lying in my bed, phone in hand. With a mere swipe of my fingers, I have access to nearly every component of the literary, film, and musical canons. Not to mention the livestream of a church service that is physically taking place two thousand miles away. I can move from War and Peace…

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  • Kleber Mendonça Filho’s ‘stylish and vibrant political thril…

    Kleber Mendonça Filho’s ‘stylish and vibrant political thril…

    [ad_1] Set in the military dictatorship of 1970s Brazil, this buzzy crime drama, which has premiered in Cannes, “makes up in pulpy excitement what it lacks in subtlety”, and “bursts with sex, shoot-outs and sleazy hitmen”. One of the biggest sensations of this year’s awards season was I’m Still Here, an Oscar-nominated drama about the…

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  • The Avengers Make A Deadly Alliance To Take Down The King of…

    [ad_1] This summer, the pop culture showdown fans have waited ages for arrives in Godzilla Destroys The Marvel Universe, a five issue event series written by writer Gerry Duggan and drawn by artist Javier Garrón. Following a series of hit one-shots where Godzilla battles different Marvel heroes across history, Godzilla Destroys The Marvel Universe pits…

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  • What Can We Disrupt Next?

    What Can We Disrupt Next?

    The Age of Audacity We’re living in wild-ass times. Not just bold—audacious. The kind of era where truth feels like fiction and fiction gets a TikTok deal. Some folks out here are fighting for freedom. Others? Just freeloading off chaos. Yes, some disruption is long overdue—Rebel flags waving like it’s still 1865? Burn ‘em. Statues…

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  • 1980s Metalhead Kids Are Alright: Scientific Study Shows Tha…

    [ad_1] In the 1980s, The Par­ents Music Resource Cen­ter (PMRC), an orga­ni­za­tion co-found­ed by Tip­per Gore and the wives of sev­er­al oth­er Wash­ing­ton pow­er bro­kers, launched a polit­i­cal cam­paign against pop music, hop­ing to put warn­ing labels on records that pro­mot­ed Sex, Vio­lence, Drug and Alco­hol Use. Along the way, the PMRC issued “the Filthy Fif­teen,” a list…

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  • How Midnight Cowboy became the only X-rated winner of the be…

    [ad_1] Alamy When Midnight Cowboy came out 56 years ago this week, it instantly upended Hollywood’s idea of a mainstream hit. A bleak tale of loneliness, sexuality and survival in New York, it was powered by career-defining performances from its lead actors. “I did have problems with it as I now see the movie,” actor…

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