What Happens When the Author Directs the Movie: How Robert Rodriguez Recruited Frank Miller to Co-Direct Sin City
rssfeeds-admin In the nineteen-nineties, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez first collaborated on a movie. No, it...
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Hear the First Book of Homer’s Iliad Read Aloud in the Original Greek
You can, of course, learn the Greek language as it’s spoken today. You can also...
How Conflict Helped Create Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and Its Legendary Guitar Solos
Even among the most acclaimed albums ever recorded, not a single one is perfect. That...
Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago
“What has been my prettiest contribution to the culture?” asked Kurt Vonnegut in his autobiography...
An Introduction to the Islamic World: 1,000 Years of History in 19 Minutes
References to Islam in major media can make it sound monolithic and eternal. But it’s...
The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
It’s almost 35 years ago now that Nirvana’s video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” debuted...
The Largest Bookshelf Tour Ever Filmed: Inside a Classicist’s 20,000-Volume Library
If you grew up in the last few generations, chances are you didn’t get much...
Hip 1960s Latin Teacher Translated Beatles Songs into Latin for His Students: Read Lyrics for “O Teneum Manum,” “Diei Duri Nox” & More
I’ve interacted with many entertaining language-learning resources in various classes—from miniseries in Spanish to comic books...
A Tour of Athens’ Acropolis, Explained with 3D Reconstructions
Since it was first built as a Mycenaean fortress in the thirteenth century BC, what...
The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”
If you’ve taken a good art history course on the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, you’ve inevitably...