Truly a great week for fans of soothing streaming TV options. Not only will Julie Andrews be doing a show about the performing arts with puppets, but Netflix has also added Beauty is Everywhere, one of the shows by beloved, gentle-voiced, slightly nap-inducing painting teacher Bob Ross.
An odd place where men’s rights activists and feminists meet is at the idea that false rape allegations ruin lives. The first side is infuriated that with a single accusation, someone (usually female) can destroy the reputation and future of someone else (usually male). The second side argues that false allegations…
Have you ever wondered what character you’d be in the 1978 movie musical Grease? Are you more “Beauty School Drop Out” or “Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee”? More of a Kenickie or a Coach Calhoun? Take our quiz to find out!
Whoops! Looks like someone should have consulted their local classicist before picking the quote for the 9/11 memorial. The text, taken from Virgil's Aeneid, is rendered in 15-inch letters (made of steel salvaged from the wreckage) that stretch for 60 feet across a wall of the National September 11 Memorial Museum,…
Attention, luxuriant Graces and beautiful-haired Muses! Scholars have confirmed that they've found two heretofore undiscovered poems by the 7th-century-BC master Sappho. In case you haven't studied your Classics (and/or you never had that one asshole cousin who snorted "LOL UR FROM LESBOS" at every opportunity),…
There is always some individual who delights in taking a single audio book and mashing up its millions of words and sounds to create a wholly new version of said book. And so we come to Filthy Pride & Prejudice. Somewhere, an 11-year-old just found his or her new reason for living.
Emma Thompson says she fought post-Branagh depression with a dose of...Sense and Sensibility. This inspired us to bring you a few other classic literary prescriptions for life's ailments. [Insert your own 4-hour erection joke here.]
Stuntwoman Jewell Jordan Mason, who worked unnamed alongside film legends such as Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, and Marlene Dietrich, and was the stuntdouble for Oscar-winner Luise Rainor in The Good Earth, has died at the age of 92. [HollywoodReporter]
A new line of "Audible Modern Vanguard" classic books will be recorded by a series of well-known actors and writers, with commentary by the narrator. So, how do you feel about Parker Posey reading The Feminine Mystique? [Yahoo]
The 13th annual Moby-Dick Marathon took place in New Bedford in January. 170 people, including Melville's great-great-grandson and Barney Frank, read the 800-page novel aloud for 24 hours straight. This FT reporter hated it. [FT]
