2007 almost made me care about sports because that was the year that Prince played the Super Bowl. Though his crew was assured that it hadn't rained at the Super… Read the rest of the article: That time Prince won the Super Bowl

I'd heard stories of "The Vats" in San Francisco for decades. It was an abandoned Falstaff Brewery that had become a show space and scum condo in the early '80s,… Read the rest of the article: 80s punk rockers turned these abandoned beer vats into housing

There's something about the McDonald's characters that ring all of my bells. A purple blob with a shake habit, a politician with an oversized burger head, a Greek chorus of… Read the rest of the article: Filming in McDonaldland: rare behind-the-scenes from McDonalds commercials.

Cartoonist and illustrator Adrian Tomine has been at the top of his game and pulling out all kinds of surprises lately. For this Friday's Day of Remembrance, he is offering… Read the rest of the article: Stunning new Adrian Tomine print pays tribute to his family internment camp history

Disney+'s Avengers spin-off series WandaVision features a new sitcom homage and theme song (written by the Frozen songwriting duo Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez) each week. Past episodes have offered a nod… Read the rest of the article: Bikini Kill frontwoman Kathleen Hanna sings the theme song to WandaVision this week

Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez is director Susan Stern's tribute to her late husband, underground cartoonist Spain Rodriguez. Rodriguez was a joy-riding, fist-fighting, juvenile delinquent who grew up… Read the rest of the article: Documentary about legendary underground cartoonist Spain Rodriguez premieres at Slamdance Film Festival

Video essayist Jacob T. Swinney has a knack for contextualizing movies in inventive ways, inviting us to notice pieces we may have otherwise missed. One of my favorites is his… Read the rest of the article: A supercut of first and final frames from movies

After constructing a fortress of takeout containers around my laptop, I was ready for the virtual tour of San Francisco Chinatown neon signs this Wednesday evening. Established in 1848, San… Read the rest of the article: This unassuming hardware store in Chinatown was once an underground "post office" for immigration detainees

Headexplodie, otherwise known as Oakland-based artist Annie Wong, has been cooking up weirdness in her stop motion studio for over a decade. Her creations are undeniably adorable, even when they're… Read the rest of the article: Stop motion animator Headexplodie wants you to stop being weird about menstruation

Werner Herzog has just been introduced to his first skateboarding video by Jenkem Magazine and reacts exactly how you'd expect the grizzly-battling, steamboat-dragging director would, sussing out the poetry in… Read the rest of the article: Werner Herzog watches a skateboarding video for the first time

The Hawaii International Film Festival is hosting an online Director's Cut screening of seven of Wong Kar Wai's best works, recently treated to a 4K restoration by Janus Films. I… Read the rest of the article: Lose yourself in a Wong Kar Wai marathon

You probably know Cheech Marin as one half of pot humor trailblazers Cheech and Chong, but did you also know that he is a serious art patron? Marin possesses one… Read the rest of the article: "Meet me at the Cheech!" Cheech Marin's Chicano Art Museum gets the thumbs up

Netonia Yalte built her first handmade house out of necessity. She was a single mother of three, living in poverty on Canada's Graham Island, so she set about building a… Read the rest of the article: 70-year-old woman builds enchanting houses out of beach debris

Mary Lou Retton could never. On the heels of her jaw-dropping gymnastics floor routine set to Beyonce that broke the internet last year, UCLA gymnast Nia Dennis has done it… Read the rest of the article: Gymnast Nia Dennis brings internet to its knees, again

The small-but-mighty beaded lacewing larva wields silent-but-deadly flatulence to turn the tables on would-be predators. "When a larva comes across some termites, it raises its rear-end to the termite's head-height… Read the rest of the article: This insect has farts that kill

Carvey Ehren Maigue, a student at Mapua University in the Phillipines, has found a way to power solar panels by utilizing food waste to harvest light, even on cloudy days.… Read the rest of the article: Brilliant student creates solar panel powered by rotting food

California-based geologist Mike Bowers unearthed a very special agate while rock hunting in the Rio Grande dol sul region near Soledade in Brazil last year. Once split in two, the… Read the rest of the article: Volcanic rock that looks like Cookie Monster is worth big bucks

Finnish artist Juho Könkkölä took a single sheet of paper and created this intricate origami samurai that stands almost 8 inches tall. There was no ripping or cutting during the… Read the rest of the article: Samurai created from a single sheet of paper, folded for 50 hours

Although COVID-19 has grounded the traditional Mardi Gras parades and celebrations this year, New Orleans will always find a way to party (albeit with less titties and barfing in the… Read the rest of the article: Mardi Gras spirit perseveres with "Yardi Gras" house floats

Oh man. A bluetooth-controlled chastity belt was the recent victim of a hacker attack. The Cellmate Chastity Cage, made by Chinese company Qiui, was designed so that users are able… Read the rest of the article: Internet-based chastity belts hijacked by malicious hackers