A 5-Hour Walking Tour of Paris and Its Famous Streets, Monuments & Parks
&start=20 “We’ll always have Paris,” Bogart tells Bergman in the final scene of Casablanca, a line and film inseparable from the grand mythology of Paris. The...
Category: Culture
The Utopian Socialist Designs of Soviet Cities
Modernist architecture transformed the modern city in the 20th century, for good and ill. Nowhere is this transformation more evident than the former Soviet Union and...
In 1926, Nikola Tesla Predicts the World of 2026
Not long after Nikola Tesla died in 1943, the world seemed to forget him. The first public tribute paid to his considerable research and development in...
David Lynch Directs a New Music Video for Donovan
I often feel Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan has been misunderstood. When he shows up these days, it’s in songs like his creepy “Hurdy Gurdy Man” and “Season...
Pink Floyd’s First Masterpiece: An Audio/Video Exploration of the 23-Minute Track, “Echoes” (1971)
Of the many things that can and have been said of Pink Floyd’s 1973 masterpiece, The Dark Side of the Moon, one consistently bears repeating: it set...
The History of the Guitar: See the Evolution of the Guitar in 7 Instruments
A thoroughly modern instrument with an ancient heritage, the history of the guitar dates back some 500-plus years. If we take into account similar stringed instruments...
Tune Into Japanese Jazz Week: Hear Sonic Explorations of Rich Jazz Tradition
“Man,” a fellow working the checkout counter at Los Angeles’ Amoeba Music once said to me, “you sure do like Japanese jazz.” His tone was...
Watch the Most Expensive Scene in Silent Film History: The Train Wreck From Buster Keaton “The General” (1926)
Were it filmed today, the set piece of Buster Keaton’s The General (watch it online here) would surely be computer generated. The studio would insist upon that. We...
David Hockney Shows Us His Sketch Book, Page by Page
Still working and exhibiting in his eighties, and indeed seeming to grow more and more productive with age, David Hockney has become a living symbol of...
Who Invented Heavy Metal Music?: A Search for Origins
Where exactly did “heavy metal” start? Like a similar question—“what is the first rock and roll song?”–there’s not so much a direct answer as a spreading...
