Death metal band Dead Territory covers John Cage's seminal 4'33". (via Rabih Alameddine) Often thought of as four and a half minutes of silence, Cage's piece is in fact anything but. As the composer said of its 1952 premiere: They missed the point.
This Trump-themed "game show"/informercial for his now-failed Atlantic City casino is just as awful as it sounds. (h/t The A.V. Club)
On the muxes—a regional term roughly analogous to genderqueer—of Juchitán de Zaragoza, Mexico: When asked why a third gender is accepted in Juchitán, the townspeople invariably point to “the matriarchy” of Oaxacan households – women handle the finances of the family, since they’re the ones who work as
If the view looks too good to be true, that's because it is. Instead of nabbing the perfect Instagram, the four men who illegally trampled on Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring were fined and two will go to jail. No one was caught for destroying the "
On the Bay Area's O.G. rapper, E-40: What he calls his “devastating mouthpiece” fuses form and function, art and commerce. It acts as both the adhesive necessary to piece back together the damage his unorthodox writing style does to music written in 4/4 and as
How Homestar Runner, the internet's best Flash cartoon, got its name. The whole thing came from our friend Jamie who, again, was mimicking a local terrible Atlanta grocery store commercial with one of the Braves in it. He said, like “Homestar runner for the Braves Mike Lemke!” And
Skiier makes the wrong left turn. "Turns out I am afraid of heights... Miraculously I didn't even have a bruise! I did break a lot of gear, including my helmet." How does he manage to say so quiet during his fall? We imagine we'd
"We totally understand it's going to be America First. But can we just say 'the Netherlands Second?'" In case you haven't seen it, Dutch TV show Zondag met Lubach put together a short video to introduce Trump to Holland.
Major TV networks spend about $100 million on pilot production a year, but few of the pilots they make ever get picked up into full series—for example, Jim Henson's NewsRadio-meets-Muppet Show oddity Puppetman.
A brief primer for the curious about the evolution of America's dollar bill, from 1862 to the note that's used today. For example, did you know American banks printed paper money prior to the Civil War?
