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    Keith Richards Performs “I’m Waiting For The Man”: A New Tribute to Lou Reed

    “To me, Lou stood out. The real deal! Something important to American music and to ALL...

  • A Look Inside David Bowie & Iman’s Beautiful Mountain Home

    It’s difficult to imagine Iman and David Bowie inviting Vogue readers to join them on the...

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    Gillian Anderson Reads Anaïs Nin’s Passionate Letter about Sex and Poetry

    From Letters Live comes a letter read by Gillian Anderson. They preface it with this: “In...

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    The Cardboard Bernini: An Artist Spends 4 Years Building a Giant Cardboard Fountain Inspired by the Baroque Sculptor Bernini, Only to Let It Dissolve in the Rain

    From the Triton Fountain in the Piazza Barberini to the Fountain of the Four Rivers in...

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    Music Producer Steve Albini, Director Godfrey Reggio & Actor Fred Armisen Explain Why Creating Is Crucial to Human Existence

    Imagine, if you will, an evening’s entertainment consisting of an episode of Portlandia, a spin of...

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    How Loneliness Is Killing Us: A Primer from Harvard Psychiatrist & Zen Priest Robert Waldinger

    In 1966, Paul McCartney famously sang of “all the lonely people,” wondering aloud where they come...

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    Martin Luther King, Jr. Gives Life-Changing Advice to Teens: Watch His Speech, “What Is Your Life’s Blueprint?” (1967)

    Six months before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to students at Barratt Junior High...

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    Bertrand Russell & Buckminster Fuller on Why We Should Work Less, and Live and Learn More

    Why must we all work long hours to earn the right to live? Why must only...

  • The Incubator Babies of Coney Island: How an Early 1900s Boardwalk Attraction Saved Thousands of Premature Babies Lives

    Step right up, folks! Shoot the Chutes! Thrill to the Fire and Flames show! Ride an...

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    The Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions Read by Bob Dylan

    From 2006 to 2009, Bob Dylan hosted the Theme Time Radio Hour on Sirius Satellite Radio. Each show...

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    How Toilets Worked in Ancient Rome and Medieval England

    However detailed they may be in other respects, many accounts of daily life centuries and centuries...

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    When The Who (Literally) Blew Up The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967

    From 1967 to 1969, Tom and Dick Smothers hosted The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, a politely...

  • A Man Hiding from the Nazis Made 95 Issues of a Highly Creative Zine (1943–1945)

    Perhaps at some point in the future, the poems in your tongue I composed, will be...

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    Glen Hansard & Lisa O’Neill Perform a Stirring Version of “Fairytale of New York” at Shane MacGowan’s Funeral: Watch Their Send-Off

    On Friday, Glen Hansard & Lisa O’Neill performed “Fairytale of New York” at Shane MacGowan’s funeral,...

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    The Oldest Voices That We Can Still Hear: Hear Audio Recordings of Ghostly Voices from the 1800s

    What history nerd doesn’t thrill to Thomas Edison speaking to us from beyond the grave in...

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    Shane MacGowan & Sinéad O’Connor Duet Together, Performing a Moving Rendition of “Haunted” (RIP)

    We’re taking you on a wistful trip down memory lane. Above, Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O’Connor...