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COVID-19 Remembering musical legend John Prine, five years after he died from COVID-19 Jennifer Sandlin

Weird New indie battle royale is a typing test with lethal stakes Grant St. Clair

Weird Freaky mermaid corpse found on UK beach (video) Allan Rose Hill

music The stoner story behind today's most recognizable record store logo Allan Rose Hill

vanity gripes Trump bashes Democratic Gov. Polis over "bad" portrait of himself — even though Republicans commissioned it in 2018 Carla Sinclair

movies AMC introduces foreign language films dubbed using A.I. Séamus Bellamy

smuggling US border patrol seizing more eggs than fentanyl Allan Rose Hill

Boing Boing Gadgets Turn your home into AMC and Dave & Buster's with this all-in-one console Boing Boing's Shop

comedy LA: Indie comedy screening to benefit fire relief Jason Weisberger

Funny Meet the man indie publishers ask to break their games Grant St. Clair

Innovation How rivalry between two Japanese companies in the 1950s led to the world's best pencils Ellsworth Toohey

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comics books "Dark Regards," a comic so metal, it's printed in human blood! Gareth Branwyn

disruptions Former Social Security head warns that checks could get interrupted by DOGE's "19-year-old nitwits" (video) Carla Sinclair

science fiction New online short class about one of Philip K. Dick's nuttiest novels David Pescovitz

music Death Cab for Cutie to celebrate 20 years of Plans with four anniversary shows David Pescovitz

comic art New York gallery celebrates Will Eisner with landmark retrospective Gareth Branwyn

music REM, Animal Collective, The Postal Service, Soccer Mommy, and dozens of other artists on fantastic digital compilation benefiting Los Angeles food bank and wildfire fund David Pescovitz