World’s Strangest

Video games often feature dumb premises: plumbers must save a princess from a dragon/turtle monster? What’s going on there?! But what happens when video games are based on great works of literature, music, film, and theater — does great art make a great game? Read on for some of our favorites. 1. [...]

You know how there are things that you do in life that you think are unique to you and you alone? Well, it turns out that these *things* aren’t so unique to you as you might have thought. Have I confused everyone? Let me explain: Send Email, Then Go To Sent Items and Re-read You might think [...]

A while back, I was browsing at a favorite used book shop and found a paperback called Backward Masking Unmasked. Written in 1983 by a youth minister named Jacob Aranza, it’s an unintentionally hilarious attempt to expose the alleged backward Satanic messages in rock music. For example, in the chapter called “Which Way Are The Eagles [...]

Today, Clint Eastwood turns 81. We’re celebrating with clips from some of his best work on the silver screen—from spaghetti westerns to dark dramas and everything in between. Eastwood has won four Academy Awards and one honorary Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, which is given at the yearly Oscar ceremony. In short: the guy’s a [...]

I’m, oh, five years behind the rest of the world, but I finally saw Wicked. It was, as promised, awesome. Even my husband liked it (although he still wonders why they have to sing everything). I was so taken with it I had to come home and do a little research on its background – [...]