FOOD ARCHIVES

Sausage-y Sweets: Old Candy Shop Poses as Meat Market

by Chantal Martineau

July 8, 2009

Modern Mechanix unearths this 1929 story of a meat-themed candy shop. And TreeHugger, ever the crusader, recommends it as a way to go vegetarian undercover.

[Modern Mechanix via TreeHugger]

Highlights

FILM 2021

56 Years Later, Frank Herbert Finally Gets His Du(n)e

“The editor of the Village Voice has been calling me and asking me if I have seen ‘Star Wars’ and if I’m going to sue,” Frank Herbert told his local newspaper.

by Vincent Velotta

October 22, 2021
LA DOLCE MUSTO

I Was Banned From Twitter Because of Stupidity–Other People’s!

Twitter’s robots don’t pick up on context, satire, or tone

by Michael Musto

October 20, 2021
ART 2021

Tragicomic Soothsayer: Philip Guston Rides Again

The painter envisioned America as a soaring ideal eternally threatened by a nail-studded club

by R.C. Baker

October 22, 2021
FILM 2021

Comic Construct: Reviews of ‘Y: The Last Man,’ ‘What If…?’ and the Final Season of ‘The Walking Dead’

Taking a look at three distinct comics that are set on destroying the world, one way or another

by Erin Maxwell

October 18, 2021
ROCKSTAR EXPERIENCE

Tom Morello Is a Real Life Guitar Hero

by Tara Finley

October 22, 2021
JOCKBEAT 2021

The Fury Vs. Wilder Fight has Roots Reaching Back a Century

A young boxing enthusiast, Vladimir Nabokov, writing for a Russian émigré newspaper, called the Frenchman “the wonderful Carpentier,” a “modest, fair-haired young man.”

by Allen Barra

October 9, 2021