Today is Farmers Day (also known as Old Farmers Day), an annual occasion for the celebration of the United States’ rich history as a nation of agricultural producers. Now, as the country’s relationship to that agrarian past continues to evolve–with urban and organic farming renewing interest in an industry dominated by multinational corporations–we can take [...]

Recently, as part of a series on the American dental industry, Slate looked at some of the most famous dentist characters throughout movie history. Evidently, Marathon Man and Little Shop of Horrors had to be included in the ensuing listicle of 11 Movie Dentists, but we were surprised to see some of our favorite oral [...]

As you presumably heard, last week the International Olympic Committee made the right decision for once, and awarded the duties of hosting the 2016 summer Olympic Games to Brazilian megapolis Rio de Janeiro–rather cities in recent host nations Spain, Japan and the U.S. This marks the Games’s first visit to South America, and since it’s [...]

Today is Name Your Car Day, a truly ridiculous occasion that we can only hope will soon be replaced by Name Your Bike Day (ours is called Kandinsky). In the meantime, though, we kind of appreciate the idea of treating cars like boats and giving them names, it makes something so hard and mechanical a [...]

Underneath its cheap production values, terrible acting and predictable plots, exploitation cinema is among the most important art forms to emerge in the 20th century, with plenty of cathartic, utopian solutions to real world problems that may never go away. You’ll notice as much perusing Complex’s outstanding listicle of The 50 Best Blaxploitation Movies of [...]

Today is World Vegetarian Day (and, in related news, the first day of Vegetarian awareness month), and though all our pledges to go veggie over the years have eventually been undone, we really mean it this time. For inspiration, we’ll be watching plenty of movies and TV to draw strength from these Top 10 Vegetarian [...]

180 years ago today, Scotland Yard opened for spy business in London. Technically called the Metropolitan Police Service, it’s essentially the headquarters for the police force that oversees Greater London (as opposed to inner city London, whose surveillance falls to the City of London Police). Of course, the force is now housed at New Scotland [...]

Pixar animator Angus MacLane, who’s worked on Up, WALL-E, Ratatouille and basically every project the studio has done since the 1997 Oscar-winning short Geri’s Game, apparently has tons of free time in between creating lush and textured digital environments. So much time, in fact, that he’s uploaded images of 97 Lego CubeDudes to his Flickr [...]

As you may have heard, Polish-French director Roman Polanski was arrested over the weekend while arriving at the Zurich film festival in Switzerland in relation to a case from over 30 years ago in which he was convicted of having sex with a 13 year-old girl (who has subsequently forgiven him). We wish people would [...]

It’s funny, we always thought Chris Tucker’s character Ruby Rhod (pictured) from The Fifth Element had pretty much the coolest haircut ever–a haircut that, incidentally, makes for a very challenging Halloween costume. We’re frankly shocked that Mr. Rhod ended up in Vulture’s listicle of The 12 Worst Haircuts of the Future, but we’re surprised by [...]