Only the Autodidact is Free
Several weeks back, Colin Marshall told you about an enterprising group of high school students in North Bergen, New Jersey who staged a dramatic production of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien. And they did it on the cheap, creating costumes and props with donated and recycled materials. The production was praised by Ridley Scott and Sigourney Weaver alike. […]
High School Kids Stage <i>Alien: The…
Millions of kids grew up with the groovy yet educational cartoon comedy of Fat Albert, and millions of adults may find it difficult or impossible now to watch the show without thinking of the crimes of its creator. Such is life in the 21st century, but so it was too at the end of the […]
Herbie Hancock’s Joyous Soundtrack for the…
Wherever in the world you live, you’ve heard of Avengers: Endgame, and may well have seen it already — or, depending on your enthusiasm for superheroes, may well have seen it more than a few times. It comes, as fans need not be reminded, as the culmination of a 22-film series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe […]
The Cast of <i>Avengers: Endgame</i> Rendered…
Is a written culture necessary to make a better culture or better citizens? A smart, satisfyingly deep exhibition at the British Library leaves us wondering Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2200916-writing-making-your-mark-reveals-the-power-of-the-written-word/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/26/18306125/white-identity-politics-trump-racism-ashley-jardina…
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition comes to London’s Design Museum, and in its wake a renewed fascination for the futuristic design culture of the 1960s and 1970s. Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2200866-tomorrow-inc-how-stanley-kubrick-designed-the-future/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
“I was cured all right.” If you remember the “prestoopnick” who repeated those words incessantly to his “droogs” in a “khorosho” of a novel followed by an even greater horrorshow of a movie, then you’ll be pleased to hear that an unpublished sequel of sorts to “A Clockwork Orange” has been found in the archives… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/lost-sequel-to-a-clockwork-orange-found-in-authors-archives/…
Source: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/4/24/18512589/independent-bookstore-day-book-crawl…
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