The new trailer for Apple’s Being Heumann retells the 1977 sit-in where disabled activists took over a federal building and refused to leave. Here’s the history behind it.
You may not know Frances Perkins’ name, but your 40-hour workweek, minimum wage, and Social Security certainly do. Learn more in a brand-new edition of Drunk History!
Frank Sinatra really hated The Godfather, and Johnny Fontane had a lot to do with it. But did Ol’ Blue Eyes actually try to make Paramount an offer they couldn’t refuse?
Maryland looked at a normal layer cake and apparently decided it needed several more layers and an official title. Meet Smith Island Cake, the Chesapeake dessert with a surprisingly practical history behind all that...
The cameras may have been rolling, but the best part happened between the lines. Behind the scenes with Barack Obama and Larry David, the jokes got looser, the improv got sharper, and even Larry couldn’t keep a straight...
Broadway lost five theaters, 179 protesters got arrested, and a wrecking ball named Godzilla still won the day. Somehow, that very defeat helped save the historic theaters that remained. By the 1970s, Times Square was...
Poets have been chasing patrons, prizes, teaching gigs, and actual paychecks for centuries. So can poetry still be a profession, or has “working poet” always come with an asterisk?
There are bad ideas, and then there’s the idea to build a nuclear bomb so powerful that a scientist in the room warned it could contaminate the Earth. This is Project Sundial.
A delightful deep dive into the making of Mary Poppins—from the Sherman Brothers’ songwriting magic to Walt Disney’s vision and the behind-the-scenes battles that shaped a classic.
A chillingly timely dystopian novel that blurs the line between fiction and reality, My Documents is a gut-punch family story about identity, survival, and the cost of doing the right thing.
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