Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/arts/music/washington-national-opera-kennedy-center.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561081 Points: 12 # Comments: 0...
President Trump's plans for wide-scale celebrations to commemorate the nation's 250th birthday got underway on New Year's Eve with the illumination of the Washington Monument on the National Mall....
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Disneyland Handcrafted, an upcoming documentary from The Imagineering Story's Leslie Iwerks on the making of Disneyland and the "trials and tribulations behind the rapid construction of the park leadi...
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Simon Beck works alone, using a compass and a pair of snowshoes to create intricate patterns as large as three soccer fields....
"People We Meet on Vacation" is becoming a Netflix film. Netflix The film adaptation of "People We Meet on Vacation" by Emily Henry hits Netflix on January 9. Henry's novels are romant...
The author visits a once-abandoned theme park near Bethesda, Maryland. Joey Hadden/Business Insider I explored a Maryland amusement park that was abandoned over 50 years ago. Nature has since taken ov...
A Secret Service agent stands guard as US President Barack Obama answers questions during a town hall event at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, March 6, 2015. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images F...
Emily Henry has written six romances. Barry Brecheisen/Getty Images Emily Henry is, without a doubt, the reigning queen of romance novels. Since 2020, Henry has released six romances, all to great suc...
Article URL: https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/collection-spotlight-vietnam-war-press-on-the-front-lines/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483876 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
Brigitte Bardot's funeral was held on January 7 with a private service and a public homage in Saint-Tropez, the French Riviera resort where she lived for more than half a century after retiring from m...
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210209-the-worlds-most-misunderstood-novel Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483729 Points: 4 # Comments: 1...
The Dungeon Crawler Carl series is getting a new entry this year and you can already preorder yourself a copy. The popular LitRPG series has been seeing an explosion in sales over the last few years, ...
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Article URL: https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Dec/a-proclamation-regarding-the-restoration-of-the-dash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394169 Points: 8 # Comments: 4...
Jennifer Bennie, a Navy veteran, wore her vintage Navy tiara to a recent 250th birthday celebration for the service Courtesy of Jennifer Bennie Some military tiaras are making an appearance as Navy ce...
As an undergraduate student of anthropology long ago, I remember studying the phenomenon of “compartmentalism” as a hallmark of primitive cultures or societies – their capacity to hold contradictory b...
Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/how-the-marvelization-of-cinema-accelerates-the-decline-of-filmmaking.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438122 Points: 10 # Com...
German airline Lufthansa is one of many big-name brands that collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust. As the airline celebrates its 100th anniversary, why does its Nazi past continue to fly u...