In 1940, one of the few extant TV shows was Sunday Evening Supper on the NBC station W2XBS. James Beard threw his toque blanche in the ring with I Love to Eat… Full story

In 2020, Rick and Morty co-creators Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan dropped a second animated series on Hulu, Solar Opposites, about five space aliens marooned on earth. It recalled the 1996 live-action… Full story

Netflix threw their Stetson into the horse-opera ring with a western miniseries and a movie: 2017’s Godless, from Scott Frank (The Wonder Years), and 2018’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, six vignettes from the Coen brothers. Full story

What does one do after Seinfeld? Co-creator Larry David made his own version of the show, in which he plays a fictionalized version of himself, but set in Los Angeles. Full story

Back in the day, for the unthinkable to occur required the agency of nature—earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes. But we’re in the age of technology and can now put nature to shame. Full story

In 1861 a group of southern states sought to secede from the United States and form the Confederacy. The U.S. went to war to prevent it. Full story

Last week we looked at a film that was later remade unnecessarily, in my opinion; but remakes can create a better film—two spring to mind. Full story

From the time that North America's first transcontinental railroad connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network with the Pacific coast, the railroad became the backbone and a central narrative of our huge continent. Full story

W.C. Fields’ last hurrah might have been when the Beatles portrayed him on the cover of 1967’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. He was still well-known despite having died in 1946. Full story

Los Angeles Detective Sergeant Joseph Wambaugh’s perspective on police work led to his first novel, The New Centurions, which was published early in 1971 to critical acclaim and popular success. Full story

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Harrison Bergeron Full story

In 1750, Benjamin Franklin, in his Poor Richard’s Almanack, observed the difficulty of knowing one’s self, with: “There are three Things extremely hard, Steel, a Diamond, and to know one’s self.” Full story