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There’s something very appealing about the idea of having a funny tombstone, rather than one that is solemn and muted. After all, if there’s anywhere that needs a little humor to lighten the mood it’s the cemetery. Manofest has done some impressive digging to find The 25 Funniest Tombstones, out favorite of which marks the [...]

Yesterday we heard the sad news that American photographer Roy DeCarava had passed away at the age of 89. One of the pioneers of a new kind of American street photography, especially between the late-40s and late-60s, DeCarava focused his lens on the desolation of the neighborhood where was spent most of his life: Harlem. [...]

As you may have heard, Irving Penn, the famous photographer who shot virtually every celebrity and famous designer from the late 1940s onward, died yesterday at the age of 92 at his Manhattan home. Aside from his fashion photography for Vogue, Penn was probably best known for capturing playful and intense moments with some of [...]

You presumably heard about the little girl who was saved from certain car-crushing death by a metal pole in a shopping mall parking lot, right? Well, she’s just the latest in a series of death-defying folks saved by some miraculous stroke of luck on camera. Epic Carnival has assembled the luckiest listicle ever, featuring The [...]

Few things, you’ll surely agree, are more exciting than a swash-buckling big-screen battle of sword-wielding opponents. As with actual human history, some of the greatest and most significant disputes in film history have been resolved at sword-point. The rich canon of bladed throwdowns gets a loving tribute in Gunaxin’s listicle of 10 Memorable Movie Swordfights, [...]

As you’ve surely heard by now, Patrick Swayze, the 80s superstar responsible for the enduring popularity of the mullet and, conversely, making it okay for men to wear leggings, passed away yesterday after a bout with pancreatic cancer at the age of 57. Lest we forget, though, he did a great deal to make it [...]

Legendary modernist architectural photographer Julius Shulman (seen in the self-portrait at right) passed away Wednesday night at age 98, and over the course of his rich, visionary career, he captured some of the most legendary modern structures of the 20th century, both in the U.S. and abroad, by architects like Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright, [...]

Remember that time you had that really deep discussion about which way you’d die given the choice between fire and ice? Well, there’s a reason water is never an option: drowning extremely painful. It’s also kind of pathetic and doesn’t exactly make for the most exciting cinematic death, usually. Sometimes it’s actually awesome, as you’ll [...]

Michael Jackson’s mega-epic memorial service takes place today at Los Angeles’s Staples Arena, with over 17,000 people attending and a long list of celebrities lined up to pay their respects. But how does the guest list of Kobe Bryant, Brooke Shields, Berry Gordy, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Hudson, Magic Johnson, Al Sharpton, Usher, Stevie Wonder, Smokey [...]

Some lists just don’t pan out, you know? Like back at the end of November it was Winston Churchill’s birthday and we really wanted to create a listicle called “Top 10 Winston Churchill Scarecrows” because we knew of at least one. That turned out to be the only one though, so we scrapped the listicle [...]