Culture Archive
Archives for January 2015


Owens’ fashion aesthetic is making a larger point about sexuality.


An album about loss, despair, and grief that’s as heartbreaking as it is beautiful


What happens when you recover a Stradivarius violin? For the FBI, it meant getting a free concert.


Technologies like Microsoft HoloLens could transform how we watch movies, TV shows, and sports.


Making an old ritual work in an on-demand world.


The series has some rough spots to iron out, but this was a better debut week than most late-night shows have.


Why do so many people pretend to be more religiously observant than they are?

“I think the better rebellion is to stay alive.”


It’s not just about letting LGBT couples eat cake.


Sansa Stark will be an X-Man.


Draco Malfoy might be a Slytherin, but the actor who plays him is a Gryffindor.


Is he an illuminati member? We can’t know.


We asked a linguist to explain Bates’s jagged Appalachian tootle.


Because, let’s face it, the story didn’t make any sense.


Conservators are working to recover old albums that they might have missed their first time around — while trying to find the sounds that need to be archived today.