Advertisements for new products can now be digitally inserted into classic films. This means there could suddenly be a Pepsi billboard in the train station in North By Northwest or… Read the rest of the article: New product placement may be digitally added to classic films
After a rambunctious fan campaign that included an online petition with 250,000 signatures, Reading Rainbow host and Star Trek: TNG actor LeVar Burton has been invited to step behind Trebek's… Read the rest of the article: The People have spoken: LeVar Burton to guest host Jeopardy
No one from the Bay has ever entered a Burger King bathroom beyond 1989 without Shock G's distinctive voice ringing through their head: "I'm a freak / I like the… Read the rest of the article: Digital Underground co-founder Shock G has died
What's cozier than a tiny breakfast made out of wool? Artist-filmmaker Andrea Love brings her needle-felted creations to life in short animated videos featuring crafty kitchen fantasies and scenes from… Read the rest of the article: Incredibly cute stop motion animation made entirely from wool
In one of those triumphant stories that reaffirms every junk hound's eternal quest for treasures, antiques dealer Robert Swope and his partner Michel Hurst stumbled across a collection of photos… Read the rest of the article: Casa Susanna was a secret resort for gender non-conformists in the 1960s
Like many of you, I was enthralled by #TheStory. Unfolding over the course of 148 tweets, this was a batshit crazy first-person account of an epic saga between a black… Read the rest of the article: An exotic dancer's Twitter odyssey is now a feature film
The notoriously sticky concrete or tile theater floors experienced a makeover in the '90s. Teal, purple, and yellow confetti star and squiggle carpets became ubiquitous in multiplex theaters around the… Read the rest of the article: What was up with the galactic chaos movie theater carpets of the '90s?
San Francisco's PBS affiliate KQED launched the Homemade Film Festival last year as a means to stay connected and creative during shelter-in-place. The festival received such a positive response that… Read the rest of the article: Homemade Film Festival wants your short films
One night in 1970, daredevil Evel Knievel was preparing to jump his motorcycle over 11 vehicles in front of a packed stadium in San Francisco. Apparently, jumping a motorcycle over… Read the rest of the article: That time Evel Knievel fought the Hell's Angels
Long before Amelie was relocating garden gnomes and Helena Bonham Carter was liberating laundry, there was the unbeatable free spirit prototype, Maude. 50 years ago this December, Harold and Maude's… Read the rest of the article: Harold and Maude Turns 50
What makes Mexican jumping means jump? The answer is less cute than you may have suspected. Often sold as novelty items and exported worldwide, Mexican jumping beans are actually the… Read the rest of the article: Why do Mexican jumping beans jump?
Could there be a more coveted dream job for a cartoonist than working at MAD Magazine? And could there be bigger shoes to fill than Al Jaffee's? Jaffee, who turns… Read the rest of the article: Meet the new MAD Magazine Fold-in artist, Johnny Sampson
LeVar Burton remains just as righteous today as he was years ago as the host of Reading Rainbow, the PBS series that encouraged children to love reading. Anderson Cooper had… Read the rest of the article: Reading Rainbow's LeVar Burton weighs in on the decision to discontinue 6 Dr. Seuss books
If you're planning your midlife crisis and too tired to date a younger person and too broke to buy a sports car, might I suggest you take the road less… Read the rest of the article: The Planter's NUTmobile is looking for drivers
Thai American artist Astria Suparak's Virtually Asian is a short video essay that looks at how science-fiction filmmakers fill the backgrounds of their futuristic worlds with nebulous Asian faces while… Read the rest of the article: Watch a supercut of sci-fi movies that use Asian bodies without casting Asian characters
A special gift for all of my fellow anxiety sufferers: Space hurricanes! Before now, scientists were uncertain they even existed, but a new study shows a 600-mile-wide mass of swirling… Read the rest of the article: Space Hurricane spotted over the North Pole
Bowie puts VJ Mark Goodman in the hot seat over MTV's lack of representation in this 1983 interview. Cringe along as Goodman back pedals his ass straight off a cliff.… Read the rest of the article: David Bowie grills MTV about their failure to play videos by Black artists in this 1983 interview
Photographer Gaetano Dario Gargiulo's cool tide pool octopus photo won Best in Show at the annual Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest this year. What makes this image even cooler, is… Read the rest of the article: Octopus selfie wins photography contest
Ghosts, at no extra charge. The 56-bedroom Hope Cover Bunker in Devon was turned into a nuclear fallout shelter in the '50s. The base was designed to house 250 government… Read the rest of the article: Buy an underground nuclear bunker
Like rolling the 20-sided die while watching Hanna-Barbera shows on a Saturday morning, Rocktober's Jake Austen describes the upcoming graphic novel Super Magical Forest from Revival Press as "Yogi Bear… Read the rest of the article: Pre-order Super Magical Forest from Revival Press
