If you’re just starting out on acoustic guitar, buying your first instrument might seem simple enough….…
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Two Women in Their 90s Recall Their Teenage Years in Victorian 1890s London
Mud everywhere…and where there wasn’t mud, there was fog, and in between was us, enjoying ourselves.…
The Improbable Invention of Chinese Typewriters & Computer Keyboards: Three Videos Tell the Techno-Cultural Story
Even if you don’t speak a word of Chinese, you surely know that the language uses…
Kino Lorber Puts Online 50 Free Films: Watch Classics by Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Taika Waititi & Other Major Filmmakers
Even cinephiles who know little of the business of film distribution will have developed associations, however…
Winnie the Pooh Went Into the Public Domain, and Someone Already Turned the Story Into a Slasher Film: Watch the Trailer for Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey
Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood Where Christopher Robin plays You’ll find the enchanted neighborhood Of…
Discover The Key of Hell, an Illustrated 18th-Century Guide to Black Magic (1775)
According to the Book of Revelation, the returning Christ arrives surrounded by seven candlesticks. In its…
All the Music Played on MTV’s 120 Minutes: A 2,500-Video Youtube Playlist
The mid-nineteen-nineties was not a time without irony. You may recall that, back then, “alternative” rock…
Olivia Newton-John (RIP) Reunites with Grease Co-Star John Travolta to Sing “You’re The One That I Want” (2002)
American nostalgia as we know it was invented in the nineteen-seventies. Consider that decade’s preponderance of…
What Does a $275,000 Classical Guitar Sound Like?
The highest quality classical guitars handmade in the 21st century can run into the tens of…
How a Simple, Bauhaus-Designed Chair Ended Up Everywhere Over the Past 100 Years
If you don’t believe chairs can be art, you’ll have to take it up with the…