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Five of the best books on climbing mountains
The Economist· 19 hours agoMOUNTAINEERING HAS gone mainstream. Take Mount Everest. In the four decades after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the summit in < ...
Tim Shorrock, AlterNet
The Raw Story· 33 minutes agothe crisis unfolded, the Rand Corporation, a military-intelligence think tank founded during the Cold War, relentlessly ...
At 91, he’s one of the last surviving participants in a US program some described as ‘legalized...
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe braceros program brought millions of workers from Mexico to the US. A newly named National...
All the Films Sold at Cannes 2024
Vulture· 5 days agoHas the Cannes film market been as erratic as this year’s festival offerings? While everyone takes sides in the Great Emilia Perez Discourse ...
Check out all the movies showing at the Redford Theater this summer
ClickOnDetroit· 2 days agoOne of Detroit’s many gems is the beautiful Redford Theater, a movie theater that feels like you’re...
100 years over the waves: WTAG marks century as Worcester's flagship radio station
Worcester Telegram & Gazette via Yahoo News· 1 day agoPurely an entertainment medium in the prewar years, WTAG adapted to a changing world and changing...
How Forbidden Planet Tricked MGM Into Funding Its Elaborate, Expensive Sci-Fi Sets - SlashFilm
/Film· 3 days ago"Forbidden Planet" was a production on par with 1953's "War of the Worlds," a colorful, large-scale...
Cannes 2024 Sales: A24 Buys ‘The Death of Robin Hood’ Package with Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer
indieWIRE· 3 days agoIndieWire will keep track of all the movies acquired for U.S. distribution out of the 2024 Cannes ...
What Life in a 1950s Family Was Really Like
LOVE to KNOW via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe Cold War Heated Things Up Let it be known that the Cold War was anything but cold. Sure, areas of< ...
Beyond Stupid
The Gilmer Mirror· 2 days agoThere are many aspects of international relations that make me feel stupid in the “stunned, amazed, confounded” sense—like the