


Roy Lichtenstein: When Comic Books Became Art

McDonald’s Gives Old Happy Meal Toys a New Life as a French Fry Computer Mouse

Arkivism Puts Millions of Free Public-Domain Images Under One Roof
Entertainment
Movies, television, music, streaming, comics and the people shaping popular culture. From familiar favourites and forgotten gems to new discoveries, we explore the entertainment that keeps us watching, listening and talking.

The Doors: Unbound and Dangerous
A lifelong Doors fan revisits Unbound and Dangerous and explores seven standout concert albums, explaining why the band’s music keeps revealing something new.

Tex Avery: The Definitive Screwball Classics Collection Blu-ray
Growing up, a Tex Avery cartoon meant something special was about to happen. Discover the legendary animator’s outrageous humour and the MGM cartoon collection celebrating his enduring legacy.

Beyond Psycho: The Early Jazz Secret of Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins had a musical secret lurking beyond Psycho. Listen to his early jazz career, 1950s hit “Moon-Light Swim,” and rare recordings emerging from the shadows.

TCM and Criterion Go All In on Stanley Kubrick with The Complete Kubrick
A personal journey from Elwy Yost’s Kubrick introductions to The Plot Thickens: Stanley and Criterion’s ultimate Kubrick collection.
Culture
Books, art, literature, history, ideas and creative expression. A place for interesting discoveries, thoughtful observations and the people and works that leave their mark on the world around us.

Roy Lichtenstein: When Comic Books Became Art
Roy Lichtenstein’s Pop Art legacy takes center stage at the Whitney Museum’s Like New exhibition, exploring comic books, originality and today’s AI art debate.

The Great Pumpkin Carving: The Best Free Pumpkin Carving Stencils for Halloween
Find the best free pumpkin carving stencils for Halloween, from classic jack-o’-lantern faces to cats, monsters and printable pop culture designs.

The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: A Halloween Special That Gets Darker With Age
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown reveals a surprisingly dark Halloween story about disappointment, faith, childhood cruelty and the kindness that can make things better.

I Survived Just Fine Before Smartphones. So Why Does My Toaster Need an App?
August Lamm’s You Don’t Need a Smartphone sparks a funny, personal look at digital dependence, analog living, privacy and our obsession with apps.
Food & Life
Restaurants, food, products, everyday experiences and the little discoveries that make life more interesting. From honest reviews and good eats to useful finds and things worth talking about, there's always something on the menu.

McDonald’s Gives Old Happy Meal Toys a New Life as a French Fry Computer Mouse
McDonald’s and Lenovo turn recycled Happy Meal toy plastic into a French fry-shaped computer mouse, giving forgotten toys a clever second life.

Don’t Cook That: When Old Recipes Got Seriously Dangerous
Old cookbooks weren’t always harmless. Some mixed food, medicine and household chemistry in ways that can make Grandma’s apple pie look downright safe.

When Paris Ate the Zoo: The Strangest Menu in History
During the Siege of Paris, starving Parisians ate zoo animals. Here’s the bizarre story behind elephant, camel and kangaroo appearing on a Paris menu.

We Buy Too Much Stuff. Then We Pay to Hide It.
America has so much stuff that we now pay to store it. A funny look at self-storage, consumerism, collecting, George Carlin and our obsession with stuff.
The Odd & Curious
The unusual, unexpected, wonderfully strange and downright fascinating. Discover curious inventions, bizarre facts, peculiar stories and surprising discoveries that make you stop, look twice and ask, "Well, isn't that something?"

Arkivism Puts Millions of Free Public-Domain Images Under One Roof
Arkivism helps creators search millions of public-domain and CC0 artworks, photos and historical images from museums and archives in one place.

Saints, Sinners and a Man Who Carried His Own Head!
Meet Christina the Astonishing, Saint Denis and the Flying Friar, three unusual saints whose medieval stories are filled with remarkable legends, strange adventures and a touch of heavenly mayhem.

Meet the Rascal Anime Raccoon Behind Japan’s Wildlife Crisis
A mischievous Montreal raccoon leads to the story of Rascal the Raccoon, the 1977 anime that helped fuel Japan’s real-world raccoon pet boom.

Avengers: Doomsday and the Never-Ending Torture of Movie End Credits
Marvel and DC have turned movie credits into a guessing game. But how many hours are we willing to spend waiting for one last scene.

Bottle Grove Review
“Nothing is believably conjured to life in Bottle Grove. No spell is cast, no character takes root in the reader’s heart. Captive to Handler’s cleverness, to his allusive play and lack of rigor, the reader tries to make sense of the proceedings, to no avail.”

Wrinkles The Clown
It started with a surveillance video uploaded on YouTube in 2014. The video’s description claims that the clown’s name is Wrinkles, that he lives in Florida, and that he is hired by children’s parents to punish kids who misbehave. After the video went viral, other mysterious videos popped up online…Wrinkles pushing a cart through a parking lot. Waving alongside a busy highway. Holding balloons in front of a suburban home. The unsettling clips launched WRINKLES THE CLOWN to internet infamy. Cryptic stickers with a phone number were plastered on telephone poles and in bathrooms across the state, promising to terrify misbehaving children. Over 1 million voicemails were left. Wrinkles the Clown follows this eerie real-life character and explores the unpredictable spread of imagination in the internet age.

The Daytrippers: The Criterion Collection
With its droll humor and bittersweet emotional heft, the feature debut of writer-director Greg Mottola announced the arrival of an unassumingly sharp-witted new talent on the 1990s indie scene. When she discovers a love letter written to her husband (Stanley Tucci) by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza (Hope Davis) turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice. Soon the entire clan—strong-willed mom (Anne Meara), taciturn dad (Pat McNamara), and jaded sister (Parker Posey) with pretentious boyfriend (Liev Schreiber) in tow—has squeezed into a station wagon and headed into Manhattan to find out the truth, kicking off a one-crazy-day odyssey full of unexpected detours and life-changing revelations.

Bob Dylan’s “Tarantula,” as read by actor Will Patton
The music of Bob Dylan has always been poetic. Bob dabbed in actual poetry with his infamous 1971 Tarantula book of prose. Critics did not respond in kind throughout the years.
Tarantula is more of a tribute to Arthur Rimbaud’s prose style. Will Patton breathes new life into this body of work as he reads the lesser-known work of Bob Dylan.

Peanuts Calendar
Snoopy and his friends. Peanuts’ merch for 2020.

Record Rain: Looping Sounds of Endless Rain Falling
Endless Rain Record by Japanese artist Kouichi Okamoto (a.k.a. Bekkou) will awaken your inner senses into tranquility with the sounds of summer rain recorded on vinyl.

HONK: Rolling Stones newest greatest hits package
Mick and boys are grounded till he is medically cleared to tour. That won’t stop them from picking at your wallet with the latest in a long list of compilation packages drawn from an extensive armory of hits. The new album Honk consists of music recorded from every Rolling Stones studio album from 1971 to 2016’s Blue & Lonesome.

Oh No Book by Alex Norris
Oh no, Andrews McMeel Publishing has collected Alex Norris’ viral Webcomic Name. Alex’s appeal is in the simplicity of the strip that has a universal appeal.
The book collects the best hits from Alex’s Tumblr account and some never published before strips. The book is a great starting point in introducing yourself to Alex Norris complex views drawn in primary line forms. There is a little something for everybody.

Luke Flowers “Raised by Rainbows”
Here is your misspent youth in rainbow youthful colors as illustrated by Luke Flowers. This gorgeous litho of iconic characters will brighten your wall with nostalgic envy.

90th Anniversary of “Tintin in the Congo” Celebrated With New Digital Edition
The second adventure of the little reporter, Tintin in the Congo, is the subject of a new digital edition, closer to the line of Hergé, starting from the original boards completely restored and colorised according to the techniques of the 21st century.

The Staten Island Ferry Disaster Story
It was close to 4 am on the quiet morning of November 22, 1963, when the Steam Ferry Cornelius G. Kolff vanished without a trace.

What Flickr gives it takes away
Flickr will end 1TB of free storage and limit free users to 1,000 photos. You can upgrade to paid Flickr Pro service to keep more photos.