While poking around for Christmas music, I found this little-known recording of Louis Armstrong reading ‘Twas The Night Be ...

Blockbuster auteur Christopher Nolan’s next movie will be an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey. Here’s what we k ...

Well this is something special, a holiday treat for the end of 2024: a group of archivists (including Chris Person) has ...

Writer Karen Attiah recently wrote about the pleasure of perusing other people’s personal libraries and then asked her fol ...

I posted this picture of my jade plant flowering on BS and a lot of people expressed surprise that jade plants flower, and I ...

And as always when I post about Ricky Jay, I recommend Mark Singer’s irresistible 1993 profile of Jay, which begins with this story: The playwright David Mamet and the theatre director Gregory Mosher ...

Well this is something special, a holiday treat for the end of 2024: a group of archivists (including Chris Person) has uploaded an HBO magic special by Ricky Jay that has been largely unavailable ...

Vanity Fair has done a video interview Billie Eilish every year since she was a relatively unknown 15-year-old ...

The only Christmas music I want to hear this year is The Muppets doing Carol of the Bells. Beaker, Animal, and the Swedish ...

I didn’t know that the whereabouts of one of Vincent van Gogh’s most important works, a 1890 painting called “ ...

During the pandemic, Billie Eilish did a Tiny Desk Concert at home amidst a very faithful recreation of the NPR office. Last ...

Writer Karen Attiah recently wrote about the pleasure of perusing other people’s personal libraries and then asked her ...