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A Better Way to Spend a Winter Night In
By Beau Hayhoe
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5 Picks From the 2025 Film Festival Season, Based on Movies You Already Love

I survived festival season. These are the films I haven't stopped thinking about since.

By Andy Crump
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The Best 2025 Horror Blu-ray Releases For Halloween

Because this genre belongs in physical form.

By Andy Crump
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4 Shows to Binge If You Liked Fargo

The movie or the show or both.

By Lanny Fuller
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Oregon Trail Is Now Available as a Handheld

Those of you of a certain age will absolutely remember the first time you got the message "You have died of dysentery." while playing the Oregon Trail on the Apple II. Everything that's old is new again, which is why Oregon Trail got the nostalgia treatment for this Handheld Oregon…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Ai Weiwei Limited-Edition ‘Bombs’ Print

Chinese contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei has been making waves and artistic statements for as long as we've been aware of him. While the middle finger sculpture he's responsible for is one of the pieces he's best known for, his latest, Bombs, is a 6-foot by 4-foot piece that's…

By Cooper Fleishman
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HDR Pendulum Wave Patterns Video

We don't have any sort of scientific evidence to back this up, but we're willing to bet you waste significantly more time than 3 minutes a day scrolling through social media and checking for updates on your favorite topics. Spend three of those minutes today--185 seconds to be exact--watching the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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You Could Own David Hockney’s ‘The Splash’

David Hockney's The Splash is one of those contemporary works that ranks up there with the best and brightest--we're talking Munch, Monet, Warhol, John, Lichtenstein and the like--despite the fact that it's a relatively simplistic painting of a Californian landscape complete with pool. If you've got a spare few dozen…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Where Architects Sleep

Phaidon has published a lot of great books over the years. As impressed as we are with their entire collection of tomes, they're not all as indispensable as their line of "Where to" books. We're talking Where Bartenders Drink, Where Chefs Eat, Where to Drink Coffee and the latest, Where…

By Cooper Fleishman
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