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How does Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood get its catchy songs?(0)
I imagine it’s probably somewhat impossible to be a parent of young children and not have songs from Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood stuck in your head from time to time. Like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood before it, the songs are simple, catchy and memorable, perhaps even more so. The A.V. Club recently did an online video conference […]
Aziz Ansari talks to white actor who played Indian in ‘Short Circuit 2’
Comedian and actor Aziz Ansari has an episode of his Netflix series Master of None dedicated to Hollywood’s dubious history with portraying Indians on film and in television and points out something many of us who haven’t seen or thought about Short Circuit 2 in a really long time didn’t realize: that the Indian character in […]
Children’s Books Inspired by Parks and Recreation
Parks and Recreation is unfortunately coming to an end this week, but the show’s zany cast of Pawnee, Indiana-grown characters won’t be soon forgotten.
Bill Murray’s minor league baseball odyssey remembered
Bill Murray really only wanted to play baseball and golf during the summer of 1978 and he was accomplishing one of those things playing for the Grays Harbor Loggers when the opportunity to star in Meatballs came his way.
Where do kazoos come from?
Since today is National Kazoo Day, NPR has a story about one of two places in the U.S. that manufacture the plastic toy instruments anyone can play.
Stock Photobomber Interrupts Otherwise Lame Photos
Looking at stock photos can be a real drag, but The Stock Photobomber makes stock photos fun by Photoshopping himself into otherwise lame and often unusable photos.
Babysitters Club Books Inspired by HBO’s Girls
The sweet innocence of ’80s pre-teen books meets HBO’s Girls in a fun book cover design mash-up.
Photographer documents Mississippi blues musicians
Photographer Lou Bopp captures some of the last remaining Mississippi Delta Blues musicians from a bygone era in a beautiful series called Portraits of the Blues.