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 ...

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 ...

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

Al Green released a soulful cover of R.E.M’s “Everybody Hurts,” and it whips. Of the song, Green said: “I could really feel the heaviness of the song, and I wanted to inject a little touch of hope and ...

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

Hmm. I don’t know. I haven’t liked Superman in a movie since the early 80s. What do you think? Does Superman even make sense as a contemporary superhero?