Mark Frauenfelder

Allee Willis may be the most influential artist you’ve never heard of. A new documentary, The World According to Allee Willis, reveals a renaissance woman who blazed trails across music, art, and technology while fighting personal battles behind her flamboyant […]

   LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! It’s the 50th anniversary of Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go and there’s a new edition out to celebrate it. In his essay for The Yale

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The Magic Circle is a renowned British organization for magicians, founded in 1905. Women were not allowed to join the Magic Circle for most of its history, until it lifted its ban in 1991. Now, reports Sky News, the Magic

The Honest Guide YouTubers, known for their tips and advice for people visiting Prague, traveled to Paris to reveal the “cups and ball” scammers who target tourists around landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Cœur Basilica. The cups and ball

Umberto Eco’s 1995 essay “Ur-Fascism” outlines 14 common features of fascism based on his experience growing up as a boy in Mussolini’s Italy and his analysis of fascist movements throughout history. He begins his essay: In 1942, at the age

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Some guy rented an Airbnb house in Los Angeles and discovered something disturbing — sounds of another person playing a video game coming from a room with no apparent door. In a video he took, you can see him standing

Adam Tschorn of The Los Angeles Times asked readers to send him their favorite tips and coping strategies for navigating the sprawling, centerless megalopolis. Some of them are obvious, at least to Angelinos: visit L.A. landmarks and beaches before 8:30

Conservative Republican former congresswoman Liz Cheney will campaign with Kamala Harris in Wisconsin today. Last month, Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney publicly announced they would be voting for Harris over Trump. In September, Cheney told an