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'Tales from a Disappearing City' is a great podcast with Controlled Weirdness interviewing people about their untold subcultural stories from his SE16 batcave. The latest one is a SE London cracker featuring Uncle G, also …

Listening For Ghosts In Dr. John’s Gris-Gris By David Toop Paperback: £19.99 Hardback: £35.00 Published in two editions, a standard trade paperback and a limited edition hardback with dustjacket. Paperback with flaps 148mm x 210mm …

So much of life is invisible, hard to define, harder to be sure of. So finding evidence of something you’ve maybe felt for weeks comes as a shock. I came down with Covid on October …

Whenever I’m stuck on a writing project—an all-too-frequent occurrence—I usually try to find my way forward by contemplating a single question: How can I shift what I’m trying to say without reaching for cliches? Because …

This time next year, we'll bring back the Greek, Old Church Slavonic, three kinds of Swedish, Haitian, Icelandic, and Quenya....

Dianne Feinstein’s house is for sale, and it includes a pool, where her aides probably said she went swimming every day. Study for Blue Panel (Ground Zero), 2024, jpg Meanwhile, the ghost of Ellsworth Kelly …

*Heart cockles, via the Natural History Museum, London.* Sam Gilliam, "Blue Edge," 1971, acrylic on canvas, The Baltimore Museum of Art via David Kordansky Gallery.*A Rudolph Steiner interior in Dornoch, Switzerland. Photo by Deidi von …

Entering the Wall Street IRT subway station on Lower Broadway at Trinity Church can feel like going into a time warp. That’s because of the cast iron hoods that cover the stairwell as you descend …

If you’re a horror movie fan, I think you’ll agree with the assessment that Scream (1996) is a top-notch meta horror-comedy. But did you know that it’s been accused of being a rip-off...

Instant Lettering, A Letraset Database. From Hoosier Type Co.

“Self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.” “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and …

The Apple Vision Pro represents the end of something. Or possibly the beginning. It’s an apex product from an apex economy. What we know about capitalism – liberal democracy, Western economic dominance – suggests some …

With a new year on the horizon, we pause to take stock of all the wonder in world, including some of our favorite classic episodes from the Atlas Obscura podcast. Join us as we reacquaint …

While scrolling social media pages awhile back, I found one friend appreciating, in a moment, her current writing project—a book manuscript. The appreciation arose in the context of editing her Read more The post Indexing: …

As astrology was one of the very first scientific disciplines to be adopted by the ‘Abbāsid in their assimilation of Persian cultural it followed automatically that that they also adopted astronomy; you need astronomy in …