The ‘Death Mother’: Horror’s most unnerving villain
Disturbing ideas about motherhood are pushed into our collective unconscious, a film scholar writes. Little wonder they’re at ...
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Salvation Mountain, one of California’s great art oddities, partially collapsed. Devotees vow to save it
A decade after the death of Salvation Mountain creator Leonard Knight, friends gather to pay tribute and plot how to protect ...
Anamnesis designer Sam Leigh dropped two highly anticipated games — and they both deliver
Played using a single deck of cards, the game leaves behind game artifacts as players take notes and draw symbols on the ...
He Was the World’s Longest-Held Death-Row Inmate. He Was Also Innocent.
“Conscience is the only voice that protects the life of an innocent man,” he wrote in a journal entry in 1981, when he was ...
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There aren’t Jewish fighters in Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator II.’ But what about in ancient Rome?
In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The ...
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Kendrick Lamar's rules for rap's new administration
Lamar already won the year in a landslide. On his bristly new album, GNX, the rapper aims to change the state of play for ...
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From ‘The Exorcist’ to ‘Heretic,’ why holy horror can be a hit with moviegoers
In the new horror movie, “Heretic,” Hugh Grant plays a diabolical religious skeptic who traps two scared missionaries in his ...
A Boxer on Death Row
Iwao Hakamada spent an un­precedented five decades awaiting execution. Each day he woke up unsure whether it would be his last.
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Jobseekers are being put off by the soul-destroying recruitment process
Many employers need to streamline their recruitment processes and stop looking for perfection.Amanda SmithTaunton, SomersetSIR – One simple yet powerful solution has been overlooked in the ...
How $70 funeral wreath became symbol of protest in S. Korea
Donning red bandanas, launching hunger strikes, raising banners and posters in chants by the crowd in the streets or holding ...
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Paul Morrissey, Icon of NY Underground Cinema Behind ‘Trash,’ ‘Flesh’ and More Andy Warhol Films, Dies at 86
Morrissey’s death was confirmed by archivist Michael ... success with a trilogy starring Warhol fixture and gay sex symbol Joe Dallesandro that consisted of “Flesh,” “Trash” and ...
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Day of the Dead: A visual guide to this Mexican holiday
In late October, popular Day of the Dead symbols appear, including bright paper ... Its combination of the Indigenous cult of death and ritual rites with Catholicism brought it over from Europe.