Open Democracy published an excerpt of Farrukh Dhondy’s book Fragments Against My Ruin: A Life, discussing his life as a British Black Panther in the 1970s. The post Farrukh Dhondy on life as a British Black Panther in the 1970s appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading

Jamaican poet Valerie Bloom wrote a beautiful poem about autumn called Autumn Gilt and you can hear her read it on The Children’s Poetry Archive’s website. The post Valerie Bloom recites her poem, Autumn Gilt appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading

For Cosmopolitan, Lola Akinmade Åkerström examined the culture of cultural erasure in Sweden from a Black female perspective: I often describe living in Sweden like being married to the most attractive man at a party. One who turns heads the minute you walk in with him on your ar … | Continue reading

Atlas Obscura on the origins of vampires and their relationship with spreading diseases: In many respects, the vampire of today is far removed from its roots in Eastern European folklore. As a professor of Slavic studies who has taught a course on vampires called “Dracula” for mo … | Continue reading

The New York Times interviewed Pepe Mujica [archived], Uruguay’s former president. The notable anti-capitalist spoke about his cancer and why he thinks humanity is doomed: We waste a lot of time uselessly. We can live more peacefully. Take Uruguay. Uruguay has 3.5 million people. … | Continue reading

Kat Tsai is a Taiwanese-American artist who specialises in colourful, atmospheric illustrations. If the style looks familiar, you’ll be pleased to know that she worked as a Visual Development artist at Sony Pictures Animation on Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse. Her media work a … | Continue reading

The Onion, from 28th August 2024: Scientists at the University of California at Davis are attempting to reengineer the microbes in cows’ stomachs to produce less methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas released by the animals that contributes about 4% of global warming. I think … | Continue reading

Fancy a trip back to the 90s? Interested in tarot cards? Then you might like Jude’s World, a tarot-based journaling game by Button Kin Games: You’ll take on the role of Jude – a 12-year-old who’s desperate to grow up and certain that they’ll do a better job of it than their paren … | Continue reading

This passed me by: bell hooks’s memoir ‘Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood’ will be published in the UK for the first time, by Dialogue Books. The post bell hooks memoir ‘Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood’ to be published in the UK for the first time appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading

There’s a meme going around of surprisingly recently invented foods but rather than posting it and having to rewrite what’s on it for accessibility, here’s a list of 10 foods [archived] (the writer also “stole” the idea from a tweet). Here are the ones that surprised me the most: … | Continue reading

The Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 is a treaty that aims to unified how the Portuguese language is written in countries where Portuguese is the official language. It was signed in Lisbon in 1990 and the signatories included representatives from all Portuguese- … | Continue reading

It takes a certain morbidity to wonder if a life-sized Sonic the Hedgehog could cut you in half but that’s what we have in the above video from No Bitrate. Using a giant saw blade, a car, and science, Alex Corea put his “Sonic” to the test against an old TV and a mannequin to … C … | Continue reading

Giorgia Villa is now an Olympic silver medallist for Italy in gymnastics but she’s also a Parmigiano Reggiano ambassador: Villa regularly poses in sponsored photos sitting astride or holding wheels of the hard cheese. The post Giorgia Villa: gymnast, Olympic silver medallist, and … | Continue reading

As the 2024 Olympics Games are about to start in Paris today, let’s look back to the time when Ash Ketchum was the Indigo League torchbearer. The clip shows Ash asking to volunteer but if you know the episode, you’ll know it wasn’t all plain sailing. Let’s hope it is for the IRL … | Continue reading

Morgan Spurlock’s brought attention to his infamous documentary, Super Size Me, where he went on a diet of nothing but McDonald’s and had to Super Size his meal whenever asked. It caused controversy and McDonald’s made a number of changes off the back of it. But for many years la … | Continue reading

Arch Daily wrote about the Burj Al Babas project, launched in 2014 in the Turkish town of Mudurnu. The area was filled with Disneyesque castles for rich people but the fairytale soon descended into a Márquezian nightmare filled with abandonment: In 2018, as the global real estate … | Continue reading

For Variety Fair, Alfred Molina broke down some of his greatest roles and discussed his life in between them. He’s such an underrated actor with a brilliant range and I enjoyed watching this. There’s also a really candid moment at the end where he talks about his dad and I’m sure … | Continue reading

Kiosk: The Last Modernist Booths Across Central and Eastern Europe is a book about kiosks, those little shops you see dotted around European cities, selling everything from magazines to tobacco, chocolate, water, and chewing gum. Zupagrafika created the photobook to showcase thes … | Continue reading

I found this list of Hurricane Beryl resources on Tumblr. Consider donating if you can and peep the reading list from Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora authors at the bottom of the document. (via) The post Some Hurricane Beryl resources appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading

Yesterday, @xanindigo.bsky.social and @nameshiv.bsky.social taught me that not only did 7-Up used to contain lithium (specifically lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug) but there was also a fake medicine called RadiThor that contained radium. The Conversation wrote about Radi … | Continue reading

I think I found this on MLTSHP but can’t remember now. Someone’s been painting rainbows on abandoned houses in Asheville, North Carolina. ABC News 13 called it vandalism but the house is being demolished anyway: The property was recently acquired by Pisgah Legal Services, a nonpr … | Continue reading

Spite houses are buildings constructed or redesigned due to disagreements over a variety of things such as land disputes, family feuds, protests, or just straight pettiness. Believe That picked 17 of the most fascinating for a video and some of these are peak levels of petty. The … | Continue reading

For JSTOR Daily, May Wang looked at the history of olive trees in Palestine, and how their importance has been used against Palestinians by the State of Israel: […] Through numerous interviews and anecdotes borne out in legal cases, economics, and statistics, Braverman outlines h … | Continue reading

Gastro Obscura looked at the correlation between temperature and flavour across North America, Europe, and Asia, referring to a Nature article that examined 33,750 recipes from 70 national and regional cuisines: “Variation in spice use is not explained by temperature and… spice u … | Continue reading