While poking around for Christmas music, I found this little-known recording of Louis Armstrong reading ‘Twas The Night Be ...

Blockbuster auteur Christopher Nolan’s next movie will be an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey. Here’s what we k ...

Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen, actors out of work during the pandemic, were playing Grand Theft Auto when they found the Pinewood Bowl amphitheater and decided to try staging a production of Hamlet ...

Rickey Henderson has died aged 65. “There may not have been any player in history who was better at more things than Rickey Henderson was.” He was so fun to watch.

Well this is something special, a holiday treat for the end of 2024: a group of archivists (including Chris Person) has ...

Writer Karen Attiah recently wrote about the pleasure of perusing other people’s personal libraries and then asked her fol ...

I posted this picture of my jade plant flowering on BS and a lot of people expressed surprise that jade plants flower, and I ...

Vanity Fair has done a video interview Billie Eilish every year since she was a relatively unknown 15-year-old ...

And as always when I post about Ricky Jay, I recommend Mark Singer’s irresistible 1993 profile of Jay, which begins with this story: The playwright David Mamet and the theatre director Gregory Mosher ...

Well this is something special, a holiday treat for the end of 2024: a group of archivists (including Chris Person) has uploaded an HBO magic special by Ricky Jay that has been largely unavailable ...

The only Christmas music I want to hear this year is The Muppets doing Carol of the Bells. Beaker, Animal, and the Swedish ...

I didn’t know that the whereabouts of one of Vincent van Gogh’s most important works, a 1890 painting called “ ...