music Vanilla Ice to get his own biopic starring Dave Franco David Pescovitz

music 25 years of "Short Music for Short People," the greatest music compilation ever made Thom Dunn

horror "The Unmothers" is Lovecraft for horses and abortion rights Thom Dunn

psychology Nature's fake news: how supernormal stimuli trick animals (including you) Ellsworth Toohey

poetry Erotic Serbian folktales from the 19th century Natalie Dressed

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

bruce springsteen The enduring power of Bruce Springsteen's music: a fan's journey Mark Cerulli

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

transgender The forgotten trans history of the first Beastie Boys record Thom Dunn

tabloids Scientology doomed, Royal family doomed, and Island of the Damned in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Happiest kitchen on Earth! This Disneyland cookbook is a lot of fun Jason Weisberger

tabloids Covid cover-up, UFO cover-up, and Trump's sadistic sex tapes in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

elon musk Now we know what Grimes saw in Elon Jason Weisberger

abortion Kari Lake's abortion U-turn: once called it murder, now grants exceptions Mark Frauenfelder

Christians "A Potato That Wasn't A Christian" is a 1960 pamphlet that's not as funny as it sounds Thom Dunn

tabloids Meghan Markle's "casting couch" and an Epstein "sex slave" murdered in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

tabloids Queen Camilla's divorce ultimatum and the Clintons betray Joe Biden, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

books "Bridge" is a dimension-hopping thriller about grief, motherhood, and parasitic worms Thom Dunn

tabloids Melania Trump's smoking gun, and Mitch McConnell's short-circuiting brain, in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan