If you are a Star Wars fan, every day is May 4th. I recently let the force choose a book to read from the shelves. Star Wars: From a Certain… Read the rest of the article: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View is a rewarding retelling

On May 24, 2022, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, teenager Salvador Ramos murdered nineteen children and two adults with two AR-15 assault rifles he recently and legally purchased.… Read the rest of the article: After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Johnathon Swift, epigraph to A Confederacy… Read the rest of the article: Sixty years of A Confederacy of Dunces' Ignatius J. Reilly

Clarkesworld Magazine and Forever Magazine editor and publisher Neil Clarke released a statement about the Writer's Guild of America strike and hopes others will sign onto it too: "I've complained… Read the rest of the article: Clarkesworld editor Neil Clarke on the writers' strike and AI

Kick flips, ghetto birds, ollie impossibles, airwalks, bean plants, acid drops, gazelle spins, pop shuvits, and the Madonna are the names of some of the hundreds, perhaps thousands of skateboard… Read the rest of the article: Tony Hawk and the origin of the trick "The Madonna."

Do you need "to correct women who know more about something than you? Do you tag Hank Green in videos where a woman is talking about something she literally has… Read the rest of the article: Correctile Dysfunction: the global crisis of men correcting women who know more than they do

The movie Air dramatizes the risks that Nike took when signing Michael Jordan as their anchor athlete. Beyond sustaining the brand, Jordan transformed the corporation into a global capitalist phenomenon… Read the rest of the article: Nike faces class-action lawsuit accusing it of greenwashing

A More Perfect Union, "Media that builds power for working people," released this video, narrated by Andrew Rivera, investigating the people and organizations behind the Super-PAC No Labels. Arizona Senator… Read the rest of the article: Who is behind the "No Labels" political action committee bankrolling Kirsten Sinema?

In conservative, purple-ish Arizona, Kevin Payne, a Republican House member from Peoria, a suburb northeast of Phoenix, proposed in House Bill 2486 that the 48th State be the first to… Read the rest of the article: Research into magic mushrooms pondered by Arizona legislators

Not in my nameYou fight a war against terrorists and violence and try to wave your guns toFear us all into silence.No….You built your empire with natives and slaves like… Read the rest of the article: Spoken word artist Saul Williams released the EP "Not in My Name" two decades ago

Burger King has the "Impossible Whopper," Jack in the Box offers an "Impossible" patty for their burger options and, most recently, McDonalds (in Germany) has debuted plant nuggets. Other fast… Read the rest of the article: In a blind taste test the animal-like protein was preferred over 100% beef burger

In commemorating Miles Davis's birthday on May 26, 1926, Reconsidering Cinema posted this stacked split-screen video of Davis scoring Elevator To The Gallows to Twitter. The "Elevator To The Gallows… Read the rest of the article: The brilliance of Miles Davis's "live score" for the 1958 film Elevator To The Gallows

German Feminist Marxist scholar, thinker, and activist Maria Mies passed away on May 16, 2023, after ninety-two years on the earth. Having dedicated her life to a feminist liberatory practice… Read the rest of the article: Feminist scholar Maria Mies dead at 92

"Abolition requires that we change one thing, which is everything. When one says prison abolition, one cannot be talking about only prison. . . . It's building the future from… Read the rest of the article: Spirituality and Abolition, a new book from the Abolition Journal

This video of a giant Andean condor reunited with the person who nursed and cared for it after falling from their nest is making the rounds again after it was… Read the rest of the article: Watch: Andean condor reunited with the man who saved it

While the writers for South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and novelist, journalist, and blogger Cory Doctorow have shared their unique perspectives on ChatGPT, I came across this striking… Read the rest of the article: Nnedi Okorafor and a positive side to ChatGPT

On August 11, 2022, Hadi Matar attacked author Salman Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York just as he was to deliver a keynote lecture. The stabbing, with… Read the rest of the article: Salman Rushdie wins the Freedom to Publish award at the British Book Awards

It has been ten years since the then newly reunited Stone Roses headlined Coachella on Friday, April 12, 2013. When I saw this video post of Jim Lahey's new song… Read the rest of the article: Is the Trailer Park Boys' Jim Leahy dancing like Ian Brown from the Stone Roses?

Much drafting ink has been spilled to explore and explain Joy Division's 1979 Unknown Pleasures Album Cover. Designed by Peter Saville, the soundwave cover is iconic and has inspired a… Read the rest of the article: The origins of the legendary album cover for Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures"

Cop City is the name community groups give to the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. With a cost of $90 million, the facility will occupy 85 acres of a 265-acre… Read the rest of the article: Atlanta police shot climate activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán 57 times