People & culture
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Every Known Work by Georgia O’Keeffe Has Been Digitized and …
[ad_1] Upon hearing the names of Arthur Dove or Marsden Hartley, the saturated colors and organically askew lines of those painters’ landscapes may appear before your mind’s eye. But unless you have a special interest in American modernists of the early twentieth century, they probably don’t. The name Georgia O’Keeffe, by contrast, can hardly fail…
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Sin and Shame in KPop Demon Hunters
[ad_1] Note: This article contains spoilers for KPop Demon Hunters. It’s not often that a studio strikes gold, hits the jackpot, and captures lightning in a bottle all at once. Yet that’s precisely what Netflix did when it acquired the animated musical KPop Demon Hunters, and ever since, the world has been captivated by the…
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The ultimate saga of British privilege and power
[ad_1] Galsworthy’s writing career spanned the first three decades of the 20th Century and in 1932, he won the most prestigious literary award of all, the Nobel Prize “for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga”, said the judges. Gill Durey, honorary associate professor at Edith Cowan University…
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The Marvel Swimsuit Issue Returns For A Brand New Beach Day
[ad_1] Last summer, Gen X dudes still mad about Psylocke rejoiced when the Marvel Swimsuit Special made its return in Marvel Swimsuit Special: Friends, Foes & Rivals #1! Now it’s back this July with Marvel Swimsuit Issue: Brand New Beach Day #1, an all-new one-shot of stories and pinups of Marvel heroes from artists including Pasqual Ferry,…
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In Her Final Reflections, Jane Goodall Issues a Warning: “Wi…
[ad_1] For many of us, Jane Goodall was one of those cultural figures who seemed always to have been around, and on some level, made us feel like she always would be. But of course, no human being lives forever, no matter how widely admired. Goodall made her own departure last fall, in the middle…
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Grace Invites Inspiration: The Courage of Sandman’s Muse
[ad_1] “Where does that voice come from?” Far be it for me to speculate on the nature of inspiration. Fortunately, I have plenty of fodder to draw from in the final, disconnected vignettes of the Netflix series Sandman, season 1, episode 11, part 2 of which is titled “Calliope.” We begin in a university lecture…
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Six reasons why it was the best Oscars in years
[ad_1] Popular wins all round Frankenstein, which won three Oscars, and KPop Demon Hunters, which won two, are both Netflix films which had limited cinema releases, but, unlike so much streaming slop, millions of people saw them, loved them and wanted to see them bag some Academy Awards. Meanwhile, Amy Madigan won best supporting actress…
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In ‘How’s My Driving’, Panic Table Explores A Daggerheart Sl…
[ad_1] Actual Play can easily be associated with epic tales of long campaigns, deep character backstories, and fantastical worlds. Yet, there is real value in stepping into condensed and specific frameworks, like a slasher film, to invoke the same feeling of sitting down to watch a standalone film. The Panic Table’s How’s My Driving achieves…
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Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938-2014…
[ad_1] Image via Wikimedia Commons A number of years ago, in a post on the pioneering composer of the original Doctor Who theme, we wrote that “the early era of experimental electronic music belonged to Delia Derbyshire.” Derbyshire—who almost gave Paul McCartney a version of “Yesterday” with an electronic backing in place of strings—helped invent…
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King Kong Died for Our Sins: Why Unexpected Christ Figures M…
[ad_1] Back when walking around malls was still a thing, and they were well-populated with a variety of stores and people, one of the things you could count on was seeing an eclectic swath of graphic T-shirts. The ones that stood out to me then were those with the clever pun or sarcastic comment, maybe…