Really Good Time finally release their debut album, Affirmations. Wastefellow talks trust, bananas, Rian Trench and the ...

Basil I, from the illustrated manuscript of the 11th century historian John Skylitzes. The death of Emperor Nero in 68 AD marked a turning point in the history of the Roman Empire. For the 95 years ...

Diogenes was born over twenty-four hundred years ago, which is more of a problem than historians like to admit. People didn’t keep great records back then, of course, and not much was written down. Of ...

An easy last place, given that Hannon himself has largely disavowed it. There are faint sparks of something here, particularly on ‘Secret Garden,’ but mostly it just sounds like what it essentially is ...

The Renaissance was one of the greatest periods of creative and intellectual achievement in world history. It was an extraordinary upsurge of learning and artistic activity that spread throughout ...

Drummers are often the underdogs in a band, and they don’t get the spotlight as often as they deserve, even though their playing is the backbone of every song, every performance. Even when you look at ...

Jeanne de Clisson was born in the French town of Belleville-sur-Vie in 1300. She was the one of the de Belleville family, who had ruled in the area for hundreds of years. In fact, she wound up being ...

The 19th century was a time of turmoil in Europe, as the fallout from the shock of the French Revolution and the realization that real social change was possible continued to reverberate through the ...

Corbucci followed Django with the lesser, on account of some racist casting, but still enjoyable Navajo Joe. Wearing a wig that made him look like Natalie Wood, Burt Reynolds stars as the titular ...

The video game industry has made serious strides to become more inclusive in recent years. Major studios like Cyberpunk 2077 and The Last of Us 2 feature transgender PCs/NPCs, while Baldur’s Gate 3 ...

Cora Pearl, one of the most infamous woman in the empire of Napoleon III, was born plain Emma Crouch in Plymouth, England. She was probably born in 1835 though she would claim later to have been born ...

The cliched idea of the “thin line between genius and insanity” is one that has been discussed by both psychiatrists, cultural commentators and pop psychologists for decades. In one sense it’s an ...