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However innovative the visual style of Elevators turned out, it is Miles Davis' breathtaking trumpet score that elevates the film to a mid-century classic. Davis' presence in French society happened to coincide with the height of his artistic genius, catalyzing the evolution of jazz, film, and the boundaries of artistic expression. Jazz had been part of cinema since the late 1920s but Davis' work...

Exactly what it says on the side of the box (slyt) This is Prince before he was PRINCE. Happy listening, everyone!

Mike (Seth Skorkowsky,) Todd (Seth Skorkowsky,) Dweebles (Seth Skorkowsky,) and their game master (Seth Skorkowsky) discuss Indiana Jones' impact in Raiders of the Lost Ark. [YT ~7m]Seth Skorkowsky is an author of fantasy novels and game supplements, but is best known as a tabletop RPG YouTuber. His channel reviews materials for games like Traveller and Call of Cthulhu, with Jack the NPC (Seth Skorkowsky)...

I was invited by Westtown School to give a speech—as a language expert—about the importance of learning languages, in front of a full auditorium of high school and middle school students. But instead of just telling the students why language matters... I decided to show them.

How an empty building in Melbourne's Central Business District was transformed into a home. In the middle of a housing crisis, when a sizeable amount of commercial real estate is sitting vacant, the Make Room project is billed as a blueprint for giving under-utilised buildings new life as residential spaces - and lowering carbon emissions in the process.

Since a joint U.S.–Israel plan put a nonprofit in charge of aid distribution in Gaza, at least nine people have been killed and 47 injured. "This is what happens when you try to replace the humanitarian system with a political agenda," said Abdalwahab Hamad, Gaza office manager for the Palestinian humanitarian group Juhoud. "Those thousands of Palestinians, starving and desperate, stormed the distribution center,...

Youtube user Jsach3 has just uploaded the original pilot of The Gong Show. Hosted by Gary Owens and featuring a different set, intro and two gongs. Judges for the pilot are Jo Anne Worley, Arte Johnson, Adrienne Barbeau, and Richard Dawson. The footage includes various pickup shots that were done after the competition.

Get your local weather, retro Weather Channel-style. A re-implementation of the WeatherStar system (wiki) . Blog post by the creator describing it: WeatherStar 4000+ (and followup: Modernizing the WeatherStar 4000).

"A panel of federal judges on Wednesday blocked President Trump from imposing some of his steepest tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners, finding that federal law did not grant him 'unbounded authority' to tax imports from nearly every country around the world. The ruling, by the U.S. Court of International Trade, delivered an early yet significant setback to Mr. Trump, undercutting his...

You know that accent. One technical way to describe it is pre-nasal trap-backing, which is to say, trap sounds more like "trop." Add the use of like as both a filler word (more formally, a discourse marker) and sometimes a quotative—"She was like, 'Let's go!' "—and there it was: a California accent at last. from Californian Spoken Here [Alta; ungated]

The science behind Tasmanians wearing shorts in frosty winters. The great Tasmanian sport of spotting shorts wearers in winter is fast approaching. But while some people seem impervious to the chill, there are times when even the toughest nuts should put on some pants.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most conscience-searing chapters in rock history: the Del Fuegos making a Miller Beer ad.Deep Cuts And Lost Chords: The Fiery Legacy of The Del Fuegos

This is a fascinating 3 hour + conversation with Robinson Erhardt (who cleverly asks a few open-ended questions, and doesn't interrupt the long, detailed answers).

Baxter Dury's career - CW as this is working class London, language is very 'earthy', some imagery NSFW. I found Baxter during Lockdown looking for new London music using postcodes [London uk.gov map 2.4Mb .pdf] on twitter, initially I'm Not Your Dog, just to see what was playing (and hopefully originated) in certain areas.Baxter's father Ian was well known - even if he didn't...

"We received a photograph of a very sad-looking boreal owl covered in the muck you might find in the pit of these vault toilets," McCarthy said. "That image evoked emotion and inspired ingenuity to think about a preventative path to ensuring that that doesn't happen for other cavity-nesting wildlife." from Poo-Poo Project Saves Wyoming Owls, Other Birds From Horrible Public Toilet Deaths

A short video series in promotion of The Animation Guild was made by a partnership between Jellybox Studio and Animation Workers Ignited. The video series involves Umbert Actually, a union organizer, explaining the state of the animation industry to Misterman Guyfella. The videos were spread among artists both in and outside of the guild, eventually leading artists to ship the two mascots under the...

"As the anthem reminds us: The true north is indeed strong and free," he said, which received applause from the room. (slCBC ongoing coverage)And ever so briefly, the US ambassador to Canada made it About the US's fee-fees. (Also, he's mad at us for boycotting goods and tourism from an authoritarian country.)

ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing, Threatening Deportation. "The group that has been growing the most is immigrants with no criminal charges and no criminal conviction," Kocher said. "The government's narrative that they're targeting criminals is not bulletproof. They're picking up a lot of people who don't have any criminal history at all." In Kocher's analysis, since January, detentions of immigrants with...

"It's feeling like this wonderful family, and that's one of the best parts." How libraries are turning into a home away from home for homeschoolers.

Critically-endangered Mary River cod found feasting on invasive tilapia. A routine survey confirms conservationists' hope that the apex predator will take care of its pest fish problems when big enough.

How do you sleep How's your sleep? Where and when do you sleep best? Talk about your dreams. Both the sleepy kind and IRL.

Part of this process, for me and others, was confronting and accepting the critical establishment's judgment of the books we once loved as sophomoric rather than truly artful. At some point, the very qualities that we had found so tantalizing—the romanticization of excess, the default cynicism toward all accepted values and notions of decency, the rage, the celebration of irresponsible behavior, the dogmatic defense...

Marcel Ophuls, the German-born filmmaker whose powerful documentary The Sorrow and the Pity exploded the myth of widespread French resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II, died over the weekend in France. He was 97.

Most Americans recall the Revolutionary battles of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill, but as the nation turns 250 residents living where it happened are celebrating one of the first, and most impressive, rebel victories.