Citing safety concerns, USC made the decision to cancel Asna Tabassum's speech at the school's graduation ceremony on May 10. The school didn't elaborate on what the safety concerns were,… Read the rest of the article: USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum speaks out after school cancels her speech
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Natalie Dressed Shane Patrick White has an excellent video detailing the process of inking an original panel of comic book art on his channel. Watching any level of artistic mastery is always… Read the rest of the article: Hypnotic and insightful video of old school comic book inking
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Natalie Dressed Sleepytime Gorilla Museum might sound like a jumble of disparate words picked out of a hat, and that is likely how the band got it's name, but they're also the… Read the rest of the article: Cult weirdo musical act Sleepytime Gorilla Museum has reopened their doors
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Natalie Dressed Why, Florida, why?? Some confounding, inhumane legislation was just signed over in that phallic-shaped state in the nether regions of the US that we call Florida. Why Natalie, you say,… Read the rest of the article: DeSantis bans heat protections for outdoor workers
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Natalie Dressed Employees at Google's offices in New York and Sunnyvale staged a sit-in in protest of Project Nimbus on Tuesday. Nimbus is a government contract between Google and Amazon and the… Read the rest of the article: Google employees arrested and fired after sit-in protest
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Natalie Dressed Since the war began in earnest last year, YouTube's taken a full offensive against third party ad blocking software. Now, mobile users can look forward to seeing signage like "The… Read the rest of the article: News from the AdBlock v. YouTube warfront
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Natalie Dressed "We're not closing." Arizona abortion clinic Camelback Family Planning is angling to stay open to provide options for patients in the Phoenix area despite the state's across the board ban… Read the rest of the article: Arizona abortion clinic to stay open despite looming ban
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Natalie Dressed Remember that kid's book series Animorphs? With the really cheesy covers? Kids turning into hawks and starfish from the deepest depths of the uncanny valley? The little flipbooks in the… Read the rest of the article: Grandville's early surrealist French illustrations
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Natalie Dressed Para Todos was a Brazilian magazine dedicated to arts and culture, initially founded as a film journal in 1918. The bold covers that you see here were illustrated by JosĂ©… Read the rest of the article: The wonderful art deco covers of Para Todos magazine
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Natalie Dressed We've seen the wave of states that have fallen to regressive, draconian age verification laws of late. In a surprising turn of events, Arizona, the home of much controversial legislation,… Read the rest of the article: Arizona vetoes internet age verification bill
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Natalie Dressed Some people really think techno is rotting their kid's minds. Other people think sludge metal is corrupting the youth or something. Chechnya's new BPM limitations appease two birds with one… Read the rest of the article: Chechnya bans fast and slow music, including Russian nat'l anthem
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Natalie Dressed And 355,000,000 pounds of butter. Technically, the USDA owns just 300 million pounds of the cheese and is storing the remaining billion or so for a friend. Cave networks in… Read the rest of the article: The USDA has 1.5 billion pounds of cheese stashed in caves in Missouri
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Natalie Dressed Elephants trudging around Checkpoint Charlie, stomping through Brandendberg Gate, hosing themselves down with water from the Spree river. Sounds whimsical! Like something from a magical realism novel! But realistically, if… Read the rest of the article: Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to roam free in Germany
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Natalie Dressed The NUCA is a camera that uses AI to turn any photograph of a person into a nude. Sounds gross, and it is, but that's the point. The purpose of… Read the rest of the article: Every photo a nude in satirical art project
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Natalie Dressed Tarta Relena is a duo from Barcelona that started off a capella. Their songs focus on remarkable swirling harmonies that are rooted in a folk tradition, but are accompanied by… Read the rest of the article: Listen to Tarta Relena's beautiful harmonies and ambient bass
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Natalie Dressed By now, we've all seen that raunchy Roman bathroom graffiti that confirms that historical peoples were just as gross and juvenile as our contemporary friends and neighbors. The human inclination… Read the rest of the article: The ancient Roman poem so explicit it wasn't published until the 20th century
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Natalie Dressed This weekend, a giant spectacle of (mostly) tiny creations will saunter their way onto stages around New Orleans. Puppets built on backpacks, puppets that fold up and fit into shoeboxes,… Read the rest of the article: New Orleans' Giant Puppet Festival is happening this weekend
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Natalie Dressed Wartime isn't all smoke and horror. There's lots of idle time, hours to while away in anticipation and dread. Chewing on your fingernails seems a good use of the day… Read the rest of the article: Carved leaves made by soldiers in the trenches
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Natalie Dressed Europeans really know how to dissent. The optics of spraying a fountain of uncountable pounds of poop, basically, towards the object of your frustration reads pretty clearly. The farmers are… Read the rest of the article: Belgian farmers spray manure at police during protest
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Natalie Dressed I love vampire movies, I love camp, I love over-the-top villains, I love/hate 80s fashion. So, naturally, I love The Lost Boys. It's a perfect blend of all my favorite… Read the rest of the article: "The Lost Boys" was meant to be a boy's adventure film