folk music Folk Legend Martin Carthy wants to play in your living room Séamus Bellamy

music MTV Rewind is a searchable archive of over 33,000 music videos from the channel's glory days Séamus Bellamy

music Osees unleash "Tidal Wave" of psych-punk energy at San Francisco residency Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

tourism Chinese hotel ordered to stop letting red pandas wake guests in their beds Ellsworth Toohey

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book reviews Brittle Joints is a beautiful and harrowing graphic memoir about chronic pain Thom Dunn

crime Woman finds hidden camera disguised as rock pointed at her home Rob Beschizza

book review Lissa Soep's "Other People's Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End" Jason Weisberger

Ukraine Watch this mesmerizing performance by Ukrainian folk-pop-punk band DakhaBrakha Jennifer Sandlin

art A documentary about Juan Tamariz, the greatest magician alive you've never heard of Ferdinando Buscema

documentary "Black Barbie" focuses on the history of Black female representation, through an exploration of Mattel's Black Barbies Jennifer Sandlin

music Godmother of Goth announces first tour in a decade Jennifer Sandlin

science fiction Octavia Butler's Kindred to premiere on Hulu on December 13 Elías Villoro

vote You can join Judd Apatow and the Good Deeds Corps in raising funds for Texas voter registration Jason Weisberger

music Real de Catorce performs the blues en Español Elías Villoro

music Every time I play Mike Patton's "Mondo Cane" album for someone, they look at me like I'm nuts. But hear me out Jennifer Sandlin

books The Metamodernism of Hanzi Freinacht Ferdinando Buscema

sketch comedy Steven He shows the hilarious reality of Asian American life Devin Nealy

television TV's forgotten genius: Ernie Kovacs Devin Nealy

sideshows Season one of the new podcast "Grim & Mild Presents" is all about the American traveling carnival sideshow Popkin