Every spring, this poster shows up in cities around the world. What is Shen Yun, and why is it coming to your town? Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
Radioactive makeup that could kill you
For one brief, lethal period in the 1930s, women pampered themselves with makeup that contained radium. Here’s the reason why. Continue reading
Three games you can play with Jane Austen
Recently, I had the chance to try three Jane Austen games. Were they any good?
Let’s find out! Continue reading
The best tool to fight procrastination I’ve ever found
Journalist Hunter S. Thompson, notorious for being the worst procrastinator of any working reporter, is the last person you’d turn to for procrastination-busting strategies. But this method of his works every time. Continue reading
This tattoo means ‘You’ll never work again’
The incredible story of the tattoo that ruined the career of a promising young writer. Continue reading
What Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, and a supermodel have in common
I have no idea why I know that Cherries in the Snow is a particular color of lipstick. Am I aware of it purely due to the insidious power of marketing? Or is there greater cultural significance to this oddly-named makeup? Continue reading
Confessions of an Austrian arsenic eater
In the depths of the Victorian era, the recreational use of arsenic would come to be known as one of the most bizarre and dangerous ways ever devised to get high. Continue reading
