Trump was always bad at TV
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)
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Complicated gender roles in a small Mexican town
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
Prismatic Spring photographers go to jail
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 "
E-40 has influenced every rapper you listen to
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
What the hell IS a homestar runner?
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 takes left turn off cliff
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
America first, but the Netherlands second
"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.
Puppetman would haveve been amazing
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.
The American dollar bill has an interesting evolution
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?
Mesmerizing video follows all two thousand miles of US-Mexico border
Borders begin as fictions. They are performed. They are lines drawn in the sand, spaces that bend and break and make exceptions for certain kinds of bodies. Mesmerizing video scrapes satellite imagery to follow all two thousand miles of the US-Mexico border, to "give texture" to Trump&