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D.W. Griffith stoked racism with 'Birth of a Nation.' A playwright imagines what happened next
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days ago"Unbroken Blossoms" at L.A.'s East West Players explores the complicated history of the film...
D.W. Griffith stoked racism with 'Birth of a Nation.' A playwright imagines what happened next
Los Angeles Times· 5 days agoAfter the deeply divisive reception of “The Birth of a Nation,” director D.W. Griffith released...
Audrey Flack, Creator of Vibrant Photorealist Art, Dies at 93
New York Times· 5 days agoAudrey Flack, a pioneer of photorealism who became known for oversize, in-your-face still lifes...
Chicago’s Average Cost of Living Is $40,000 a Year — Here’s Why
GOBankingRates via Yahoo Finance Canada· 5 days agoChicago may be the third-largest city in the U.S., but it isn't among the three most expensive. A...
The Remarkable Legacy of Artist and Feminist Audrey Flack, Dead at 93
Smithsonian Magazine· 5 days agoAudrey Flack laughed when remembering that painter Alice Neel called her a whippersnapper in the...
Japan finally says sayonara to the floppy disk
Pocket-lint· 5 days agoRemember back when Apple, Microsoft and every other major computer company used floppy disks? In fact, you might have no idea what a floppy disk is....
World’s oldest artwork discovered in Indonesian cave
Digital Journal· 5 days ago“This is the oldest evidence of storytelling,” Maxime Aubert, an archaeologist at Australia’s Griffith University, told AFP. Aubert was part of ...
What you didn’t learn in history class about California's flag
Los Angeles Times· 5 days agoIt’s a story rooted in a cunning land grab by white insurgents who hastily drew a rough image of a...
Why Nepal had a religious monarchy − and why some people want it back
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days agoMany in Nepal are protesting to bring back the Hindu monarchy, which was dissolved in 2008. A...
Inside LeBron James’s Houses: A Peek Into His Sizeable Real Estate Portfolio
Architectural Digest via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days agoNow known as House Three Thirty, the space opened in March 2023 and includes restaurants, meeting...