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Dec 29, 2024 | 
avclub.com | Mike Vago
We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,937,751-part monthly series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Quick Hits What it’s about: Lots of things! We often come across Wikipedia articles that fascinate or amuse to some degree, (often by reading Instagram’s excellent Depths Of Wikipedia), but are too short to write a full column about. So instead of one long topic, we’re going to run down several short ones.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
avclub.com | Mike Vago
We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,922,857-part monthly series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: List of Reportedly Haunted Locations What it’s about: G-g-g-ghosts! Spooks and specters have been found hanging out everywhere from theme parks to beaches and mountains, as well as your classic cemeteries and abandoned insane asylums. Wikipedia lists haunted places in no less than 45 different countries.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
avclub.com | Mike Vago
We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,922,857-part monthly series, Wiki Wormhole. This month’s entry: Charles Fort What it’s about: From Mulder and Scully to Mabel and Dipper, inquisitive minds have long sought to peer beyond the veil of mystery and find the world’s hidden truths.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
avclub.com | Mike Vago
We explore some of Wikipedia’s 6,893,440 oddities in our monthly series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: List of McDonald’s Products What it’s about: While menu items like the Quarter Pounder and Chicken McNugget have higher name recognition than Tom Hanks or the moon, the list of items that have appeared on the McDonald’s menu over the past 70 years is a surprisingly long one, with short-lived favorites like the elusive and deadly McRib, and international items like the Kiwiburger.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
avclub.com | Mike Vago
We explore some of Wikipedia’s 6,864,156 oddities in our newly monthly series, Wiki Wormhole.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
avclub.com | Mike Vago
We explore some of Wikipedia’s 6,864,156 oddities in our newly monthly series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: 1900 Summer OlympicsWhat it’s about: The first Paris Olympic Games. The 1896 Olympiad—the first in nearly 1500 years—took place in Athens, home of the original Olympic games.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Mike Vago
Jonathan Ames' detective novel A Man Named Doll, and its sequel The Wheel of Doll combine the playfulness of Bored to Death (which Ames created) and You Were Never Really Here (which Lynne Ramsay adapted into a film in 2017. It's a tricky balancing act between tones that Ames pulls of with aplomb. Here to talk about why it should be a movie is Aquarium Drunkard writer and editor Jason Woodbury, who also hosts the Transmissions podcast.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Mary Annaise Heglar |Mike Vago |Matt Rockefeller
An honest and hopeful call for climate caretaking. A tale that imparts important messages about the beauty and magic of the world—and encourages readers to treasure it. “There is magic all around you,” an unseen narrator notes.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Evan Rytlewski |Annie Zaleski |Leonardo Adrian Garcia |Gwen Ihnat |Andrew A. Dowd |Joshua Alston | +7 more
Most musicians keep their feuds to social media these days, but there used to be no better place to air your grievances than your radio-friendly single. Here are 23 rock and roll diss tracks that go beyond passive aggression. 1. Pavement, “Range Life” (1994)After 1992’s Slanted And Enchanted, critics started writing about Pavement as the voice of the slacker generation, and on the 1994 followup Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, frontman Steven Malkmus seemed to take that tag seriously.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
avclub.com | Annie Zaleski |Josh Modell |Joshua Alston |David Anthony |Noel Murray |Drew Fortune | +1 more
Throughout music history, there are numerous tales of bands that teetered on the verge of separation until a sudden burst of success made the grueling tours, creative disagreements, and personality clashes seem worth it all.
