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  • Janelle Hessig
    4:00 am Sat, Apr 24, 2021
    New product placement may be digitally added to classic films Product placement

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    5:45 am Fri, Apr 23, 2021
    The People have spoken: LeVar Burton to guest host Jeopardy LeVar Burton

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    7:03 pm Thu, Apr 22, 2021
    Digital Underground co-founder Shock G has died Shock G

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    6:00 am Thu, Apr 15, 2021
    Incredibly cute stop motion animation made entirely from wool felt breakfast

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    6:46 am Sat, Apr 3, 2021
    Casa Susanna was a secret resort for gender non-conformists in the 1960s Casa Susanna

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    9:07 am Thu, Apr 1, 2021
    An exotic dancer's Twitter odyssey is now a feature film Two women facing each other in a strip club

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    5:30 am Wed, Mar 31, 2021
    What was up with the galactic chaos movie theater carpets of the '90s? space age carpet

    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?

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  • Janelle Hessig
    4:54 am Wed, Mar 31, 2021
    Homemade Film Festival wants your short films Homemade Film Festival logo

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    5:00 am Mon, Mar 29, 2021
    That time Evel Knievel fought the Hell's Angels evel knievel

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    7:51 am Wed, Mar 24, 2021
    Harold and Maude Turns 50 Harold and Maude

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    6:37 am Wed, Mar 24, 2021
    Why do Mexican jumping beans jump? Mexican jumping beans

    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?

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  • Janelle Hessig
    8:00 am Wed, Mar 10, 2021
    Meet the new MAD Magazine Fold-in artist, Johnny Sampson alfred e neuman

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    10:19 am Sun, Mar 7, 2021
    Reading Rainbow's LeVar Burton weighs in on the decision to discontinue 6 Dr. Seuss books Levar Burton on CNN

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    10:18 am Sun, Mar 7, 2021
    The Planter's NUTmobile is looking for drivers A car shaped like a peanut with the Mr. Peanut mascot

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    10:18 am Sun, Mar 7, 2021
    Watch a supercut of sci-fi movies that use Asian bodies without casting Asian characters Scene from Virtually Asian

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    8:30 am Fri, Mar 5, 2021
    Space Hurricane spotted over the North Pole A streak of green lights in space

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    1:10 pm Thu, Mar 4, 2021
    David Bowie grills MTV about their failure to play videos by Black artists in this 1983 interview David Bowie sits on a couch

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    5:37 am Thu, Mar 4, 2021
    Octopus selfie wins photography contest Tentacles

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    8:51 am Tue, Mar 2, 2021
    Buy an underground nuclear bunker large grey bunker

    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

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  • Janelle Hessig
    1:20 pm Mon, Mar 1, 2021
    Pre-order Super Magical Forest from Revival Press

    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

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