Where Music, Culture and Community Converged
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Currently reading: #9: Mumbai’s Bandstands: Where Music, Culture and Community Converged For most residents of Mumbai, the word ‘bandstand’ evokes the popular image of Bandra’s seaside…
This Summer, Chip Zdarksy Brings Armageddon To Captain Ameri…
[ad_1] This summer, the Avengers undergo a transformation the likes of which hasn’t been seen since Avengers: Disassembled in Armageddon, a new Marvel Comics event from Chip Zdarsky. Today, fans can see what’s to come in both titles this May, just before…
The Samurai Who Became A Roman Citizen
[ad_1] Last year, we featured here on Open Culture the story of how a samurai ended up in the unlikely setting of seventeenth-century Venice. But as compellingly told as it was in video essay form by Evan Puschak, better known as the…
The Comic Faith of O Brother, Where Art Thou?
[ad_1] A Film That Needs No Introduction (So Here You Go Anyway) Released twenty-five years ago last month, Joel and Ethan Coen’s O Brother, Where Art Thou? has since become something of a cult classic. Lauded by critics for its soundtrack—which…
10 of the best films to watch this February
[ad_1] Universal Pictures 9. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert When Baz Luhrmann was researching his Elvis biopic, he unearthed dozens of boxes of unseen documentary footage. Much of it concerned Presley’s residencies in Las Vegas following his 1968…
Social Media has changed : what comes next for museums, libr…
[ad_1] The original promise of social media platforms was not only reach, but connection. For cultural institutions, they offered a way to speak in a more relatable voice, connect with audiences and invite participation (beyond the limits of geography).…
RIP Gladys Mae West, the Pioneering Black Mathematician Who …
[ad_1] Gladys Mae West was born in rural Virginia in 1930, grew up working on a tobacco farm, and died earlier this month a celebrated mathematician whose work made possible the GPS technology most of us use each and every day. Hers was…
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…
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…
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…