Facts About Music That Really Sing They say music is a universal language. And, you know, they’re probably right. After all, who doesn’t love a great, foot-tapping tune? Musicians Have Shorter Life Spans Than the General Population One study, conducted by a University of Sydney professor, titled “Stairway to H*ll: Life and Death in the Pop…
‘Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of the French Decorative Arts,’ a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, traces Disney’s movies back to influences from Rococo. My six-year-old daughter—together with little ladies around the globe—aspires to be a princess. However her notions of princesses are formed virtually solely by the heroines of Disney motion…
Movies You Have to Watch at Least Once in Your Life !! The popcorn’s been popped, the sweatpants are on, and the evening is your oyster. Your next challenge: Figuring out exactly which of the great movies available to you is the one you’re going to commit to tonight. These are modern classics, the best…
We are reliving the past. On one hand, we are battling a global crisis in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic. While on the other, we are learning to slow down and appreciate the finer things in life. Let’s reminisce about the olden times with Takeshi’s Castle. When life was smooth and emotions were pure….
aThe heads on Easter Island have bodies!!!! The iconic stone heads protruding from the ground on Easter Island are familiar to most, but many don’t realize what lies beneath the surface. In the ’10s, archaeologists studying the hundreds of stone statues on the Pacific Island excavated two of the figures, revealing full torsos, which measure as…
He started flying in the 1940s right after the creation of the Fleischer films. This was because it became difficult so show him leaping from place to place. The Fleischer films used a form of rotoscoping and many of Superman’s actions had to be drawn by animators because they couldn’t be rotoscoped at the time….
A Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers has separated from the International Space Station and is heading for the Earth. The separation took place on schedule at 0115 GMT Sunday with Oleg Novitskiy, Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko aboard for a descent of about 3 1/2 hours. ‘Challenge,’ Actress Peresild and…
The 120-year-old beverage has become an iconic part of global pop culture and shows no signs of stopping. PEPSI-COLA WAS ONCE CALLED “BRAD’S DRINK The inventor of Pepsi-Cola was a druggist in North Carolina named Caleb Davis Bradham. In 1893, Bradham began selling “Brad’s Drink” at the soda fountain in his store. The beverage was…
The War for Catch-22 The tragicomic 1961 novel that sprang from Joseph Heller’s experience as a W.W. II bombardier mystified and offended many of the publishing professionals who saw it first. But thanks to a fledgling agent, Candida Donadio, and a young editor, Robert Gottlieb, it would eventually be recognized as one of the greatest anti-war…
The first oranges weren’t orange: What came first, the orange or…orange? Did someone just make the un-creative decision to name the citrus fruit after its color? Or did the color get its name because of the fruit? In terms of perplexing origin stories, this one is right up there with the chicken vs. the egg….
