Ruben Bolling

There is a standard trailer for the 1979 movie The Jerk, starring Steve Martin. But I just discovered an alt trailer that is unusual, clever, and meta. It features Martin in a short film talking directly theater owners, ostensibly not […]

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Journalist Gary He has authored McAtlas: A Global Guide to the Golden Arches, a huge, gorgeous book about the amazing array of different forms and menus of McDonald’s restaurants around the world. Posted with the permission of Gary He /

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After resisting mightily, I was finally pressured into seeing the new Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown with my family. After the movie, my twelve-year-old niece said that her two favorite characters were (1) a woman in the front row

Comedian Conan O’Brien lost both his parents with three days of each other; his father passed away on December 9, and his mother on December 12. His parents were exceptionally accomplished. In addition to raising their family of six children

In order to avoid paying actual recording artists the $.003 they earn for each play of their songs, Spotify has started filling out its playlists with songs they buy cheaply from production houses and then assign to “ghost artists” with

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