At a Seattle museum, young volunteers answer the call to preserve phone history

Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting ‘thank-you gifts’ from birds

How botched executions were handled in centuries past

On the inside, looking outside, looking in: Joe Matt’s Peepshow

‘I didn’t expect to be portrayed as a cannibal’: Rachael Stirling on eating her mother Diana Rigg’s ashes

‘At war with the obvious’: the everyday genius of William Eggleston – in pictures

[1956] Loco baseball, by Eddie Lawrence

[July 2026] Los Angeles Dodgers visit the Trump White House

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our 102nd weekly open mike

Let’s see what happens when your host (me) has nothing to say. Step right up, speak your mind, tell a story, sing a song, whatever. … [read more]

When LBJ’s right-hand man got arrested for bathroom cruising, the President could barely understand what that was. Then the story got even weirder. … [read more]

The Krone Experiment (2005)

On a regular, recurring basis, a small but frightful phenomenon pushes up from the bowels of the earth, bursting out at a different location every time. … [read more]

The silent war for the soul of software

I work very hard, and I would like to try cake.

Woman ‘posed as substitute teacher to insult students because she hates kids’

I’ve been thinking about 9/11

The Atlas of Trump’s America

His unmarked grave lay forgotten for 200 years. … [read more]

Always I teeter on the brink of sanity, but I’ve never yet toppled over the edge. It’s happened to so many others, though, good people lost. … [read more]

our 101st weekly open mike

Let’s see what happens when your host (me) has nothing to say. Step right up, speak your mind, tell a story, sing a song, whatever. … [read more]

The Koumiko Mystery (1965)

Un film de Chris Marker (La Jetée, Sans Soleil), set and filmed amid the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. … [read more]

Trump wants to permanently fence off Lafayette Park, DC’s iconic protest place

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Kongo (1932)

In “deepest, darkest Africa,” a drunkard and a byang-root addict help each other stand up against a cruel bastard in a wheelchair. … [read more]