On "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" last week, James Taylor told the story of how he came to record the song "You've Got a Friend," written by Carole King.… Read the rest of the article: James Taylor tells a heartwarming story intertwining two of the most iconic songs of the 70s

Tom the Dancing Bug: Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Mickey Mouse and his nameless dog -> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Mickey Mouse reunites with his dog in Super-Fun-Pak Comix

This footage of a Friday, October 6, 1978 Saturday Night Live rehearsal with the entire cast and the Rolling Stones has apparently been unseen until it appeared on YouTube a… Read the rest of the article: Video of a previously unseen 1978 SNL rehearsal with the Rolling Stones

Tom the Dancing Bug: Are You a Dangerous Criminal? A Handy Quiz 👉 Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: How to find out if YOU are a dangerous criminal

Disneyland Handcrafted is a new documentary about the construction of Disneyland from July 16, 1954 to its opening date on July 17, 1955. The fact that this groundbreaking park was… Read the rest of the article: A great new documentary about the breakneck construction of Disneyland in just one year

The heirs of the great Hall of Fame cartoonist Will Eisner are putting his entire intellectual property up for sale. Included are his many graphic novels — he's considered by… Read the rest of the article: Legendary cartoonist Will Eisner's life's work, including The Spirit, is up for sale

Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said at a news conference Thursday that the LAPD will not enforce recently enacted state and local laws prohibiting federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks.… Read the rest of the article: LAPD chief says enforcing ICE mask ban could cause "armed conflict" between cops and federal agents

Writer and comics historian Mark Evanier writes about an auction of a famous piece of art that is currently up for bid. In 1969, publisher Jim Warren must have taken… Read the rest of the article: You can bring Vampirella into your home… but she might be wearing less than you expect

Bruce Springsteen has just released a song about the horrors playing out in Minnesota, "Streets of Minneapolis." He wrote on Bluesky: I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday… Read the rest of the article: Bruce Springsteen's new song honors the heroes of Minneapolis

Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world! JOIN US FOR 2026 IN THE INNER HIVE, and… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: It's the Magas!

Vlogger Reuben Levine tells the story of the Colombian army in 2010 sending a message to prisoners of a revolutionary guerilla group by hiding a Morse code message in a… Read the rest of the article: When the Colombian army sent a secret message to prisoners by creating a hit pop song

My pet peeve recently has been hotel rooms that have bathroom doors that provide little or no privacy from the rest of the room, with flimsy partial doors, translucent doors,… Read the rest of the article: Hotels love their new bathrooms with peekaboo doors… or no doors

This may be the best music/lyrics songwriting team since Elton John/Bernie Taupin. Stephen Spencer is a music theory professor at Hunter College in New York City. And on his Instagram… Read the rest of the article: Turning his toddler daughter's stories into hauntingly beautiful songs

Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world! JOIN US FOR 2026 IN THE INNER HIVE, and… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: The urgent mission of Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time-Traveler from 1909

Researchers at Cambridge University made a big splash in April last year when they announced that they had strong evidence that life existed on exoplanet K2-18b, orbiting a star 124… Read the rest of the article: Strong evidence of life on exoplanet K2-18b turns out to be not so strong after all

Last week, Denis Kitchen spoke at New York City's Society of Illustrators, in conversation with editor Kim Munson, about a new book collecting the interviews he's given over his almost sixty… Read the rest of the article: Denis Kitchen: Alternative comics' unsung hero

Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world! JOIN US FOR 2026 IN THE INNER HIVE, and… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: A Busy, Busy Immigration Enforcement Operation

Theme park expert Len Testa revealed on his podcast The Disney Dish that Disney is developing a new holographic system for its ride systems that will appear to put characters closer to… Read the rest of the article: Patent filing reveals upcoming Disney theme park holograms

Tim Dickinson published a piece in The Contrarian listing various January 6 rioters who have been pardoned or had their sentences commuted, and what they have been up to. If… Read the rest of the article: Where are the pardoned January 6ers now? How many have been charged with child sex crimes?

In the new Disney+ documentary series "The Beatles Anthology," a 1991 interview is presented in which the then-surviving Beatles describe secretly spiking the tea served to engineer Geoff Emerick and… Read the rest of the article: When the Beatles admitted to drugging their engineer and producer