art Call for entries: Share Festival 2020, themed "RIOTS Here we are" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Next year, the Share Festival's theme is Fr@nkenstein Cory Doctorow

Weird Embrace your inner trash cat at PossumFest! Jennifer Sandlin

robots Humanoid robot goes haywire, attacks human workers Gail Sherman

Entertainment Fyre festival scam artist is having a rough week after second Mexican location says he's delusional Ellsworth Toohey

smoking This TV commercial overtly attempts to hypnotize you into buying Spud cigarettes Allan Rose Hill

top talent Choir! Choir! Choir! hosts sing-along tour of Taylor Swift covers Jennifer Sandlin

History Bizarre 1941 footage shows women swimming in giant pool of peanuts at first festival Popkin

costume Check out this incredible headless couple costume at the Green Man Festival Popkin

graphic novels New graphic novel adaptation of "The Road" Thom Dunn

music Taylor Swift fans embrace COVID; calling it a "gift" from "Mother" Jennifer Sandlin

peru Visit Cusco, Peru to see the "Guinea Pig Last Supper" Jennifer Sandlin

tourism The weirdest free tourism spots in the U.S. B.R. O'Deal

vladimir putin New Age conspiracy theorist praises Putin and Tucker Carlson's charge against the Satanic Cabal Jennifer Sandlin

NPR Tiny Desk Concert This "magnetic" performance by synth-pop band Future Islands is one of the best I've seen Jennifer Sandlin

music "PaganFolk Musick" band OMNIA: lively music, disturbing conspiracy theories Jennifer Sandlin

Pee-Wee Herman Celebrating Paul Reubens and Pee-wee Herman's legacy at the Dia de los Muertos festival in San Antonio Rusty Blazenhoff

History Downright freaky Halloween costumes from a rural Scottish island in the 1930s (video) David Pescovitz

halloween Halloween postcards from the early 20th century Popkin

History Enjoy this first-ever filming of Appalachian musicians Mark Frauenfelder