TIL: Satsuma, the province in Japan that gives its name to a species of citrus fruits, produces sweet potatoes to the point that they’re known in Japan as Satsuma-Imo or Satsuma potato (薩摩芋). In fact, satsumas weren’t even native to the area until they were imported there in the … | Continue reading
Yesterday, I wrote about a compilation video featuring 1 second from every episode of Malcolm in the Middle. Today, I have a video featuring 1 second from every classic Simpsons episode (by the same creator). It’s not as unhinged as the MITM one but still very silly and ridiculou … | Continue reading
I keep getting Malcolm in the Middle clips on my YouTube feed (self-inflicted) and it all amounted to finding this compilation video of 1 second from every episode. I thought the show was wacky anyway but seeing it condensed like this made me laugh a lot. Bryan Cranston related: … | Continue reading
The attention to detail on this bowl is incredible. If you can’t weave ’em, mould ’em! The post A ceramic bowl that looks like a woven basket appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
The zombie is a cocktail created by Donn Beach at his famous Don the Beachcomber restaurant in Hollywood in 1934. It’s made of fruit juices, liqueurs, and various Caribbean rums and drinks (including Angostura bitters). Its name origin is quite funny: Legend has it that Donn Beac … | Continue reading
I’ve enjoyed watching Mr Chops on YouTube, mainly for his video game content, but his travel videos are pretty cool too. The one above shows how he went a whole day in London without spending any money. It involved a lot of walking, free water, and the hospitality of Sikhs in a g … | Continue reading
Brasília is the capital of Brazil but that only came to be in 1960 as it replaced Rio de Janeiro (which replaced Brazil’s first capital, Salvador, in 1763). The idea was to relocate the nation’s capital to a more centralised area but, as JSTOR Daily explained, it had to be built … | Continue reading
A while ago, I found out about a linguistic concept called mutual intelligibility which describes the connection between different languages that share enough similarities that a non-speaker could understand the other language(s). Wikipedia has an example of a Danish and Norwegia … | Continue reading
A capitonym is a word that changes its meaning if you capitalise it but they sound the same. An example is march and March or herb and Herb. But Polish and polish is unique in that the meaning changes and the pronunciation. Woody (above) is a linguist and professor and he explain … | Continue reading
Tim Curry dug through artifacts at The Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library to talk about some of his most iconic roles. If you’re a fan, you’ve probably seen plenty of these trips down memory lane but this one gives us deeper backstories for films like The Rocky Horror Picture Sho … | Continue reading
Ṣumūd (Arabic: صمود, meaning “steadfastness” or “steadfast perseverance”; derived from the verb صمد ṣamada, meaning “to defy, brave, withstand”) is a Palestinian cultural value, ideological theme and political strategy that emerged in the wake of the 1967 Arab–Israeli War among t … | Continue reading
I saw a Bluesky post earlier about the Oscars having an anti-union past and so I looked it up and found a Teen Vogue article about union-busting “at the roots of the ceremony”. The story goes that Louis B. Mayer, co-founder of MGM (he’s the last M), wanted a beach house made quic … | Continue reading
Arizona’s Wildlife World Zoo had a contest to name their new pygmy hippo. Visitors had a choice between Cadbury, Twixi, Jellybean, and Taffy and the winner was… Jellybean! The post Jellybean, the new baby pygmy hippo at Arizona Zoo appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
Happy Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, Tujia New Year, Tsagaan Sar, Hmong New Year, Ryukyu New Year, Korean New Year, and Vietnamese New Year to those who celebrate, in whatever way you celebrate, and in whatever name you call it around the world! 2026 is the Year of the Horse—t … | Continue reading
I’m honoured to have engineer and musician incognitothief as my next interviewee. What is favourite city in the world? Mumbai. Every single crack and crevice of the city is alive. The energy is incomparable to even Los Angeles or New York. What’s the most unusual item you take ev … | Continue reading
Getting rid of ICE won’t solve all the inherent problems behind what is called “law enforcement” but it’d be a start because the constant funding and murdering can’t continue if we want a better world. Solidarity with Minneapolis and every person who has been a victim of fascism. … | Continue reading
TIL: the word ‘shamone’ has a Wiktionary entry. You may also be surprised to know that the word didn’t originate with Michael Jackson! The post TIL: ‘shamone’ has a Wiktionary entry appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
According to the WSJ, pizza restaurants are now outnumbered by coffee shops and Mexican-inspired eateries1: Once the second-most common U.S. restaurant type, pizzerias are now outnumbered by coffee shops and Mexican food eateries, according to industry data. Sales growth at pizza … | Continue reading
YouTube recommended this to me (maybe because of all the mediocre Hallmark movies I’ve been watching this Christmas) and I haven’t laughed so hard in a while. I’m not above a good fart gag and this video of The Holiday with farts—and the whole channel to be fair—knows how to pull … | Continue reading
Venezuela is going through a lot of sociopolitical turmoil with the illegal capture and arrest of its president, Nicolas Maduro. There are lots of contrasting feelings from its citizens—relief that Maduro has been removed (at least in person) but also worry about the future given … | Continue reading
Firstly, happy new year everyone. I hope 2026 is even more prosperous than 2025. It’s that time of year again: 1st January is Public Domain Day as I’ve documented in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. This year, that means that certain works of art from 1930 become free of c … | Continue reading
Remember RiotGrlErin’s Muppet-themed Christmas movie posters? Well now we have fireworks for a Muppet’s New Year’s Eve. Such bright colours! The post New Year’s Eve fireworks but with Muppets appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
My son found this yesterday and I was intrigued to see what made the list in the last 64 years. A lot of the early stuff was alien to me but as it entered the 80s, it all made sense and then as it went through the 2000s and 2010s, I was clueless again. I … Continue reading "Seth … | Continue reading
The Christmas period isn’t over yet so keep the festivities going with this beautiful cat “singing” Jingle Bells with its meows. And as a bonus, you can watch the cat unwrapping their presents. The post Jingle Meows appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
RiotGrlErin put a bunch of Muppets onto some Christmas movie posters and they’re so funny. I love the Die Hard poster but there’s something about the Home Alone one that fits the brief so to speak. The post Christmas movie posters but with Muppets appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
Join Big Bird and the gang from Sesame Street as they celebrated Christmas Eve. It’s such a heartwarming episode of Sesame Street so I strongly recommend you curl up with a warm drink when you watch this. Originally aired on Sunday 3rd December 1978, Christmas Eve on Sesame Stree … | Continue reading
A few years ago, Tony Hawk—dressed as Santa—teamed up with Berrics to deliver gifts in San Diego. But in true Tony Hawk style, he traded a sleigh for a skateboard and found some time to yell at fellow skaters to do a kickflip. It’s not just the season of giving, you know! The pos … | Continue reading
Česnica is the round bread loaf served during Christmas dinner in Slavic countries such as Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia. A coin is usually placed in the dough and at the start of Christmas dinner, the česnica is “rotated three times counterclockwise, before being broken among the … | Continue reading
Back for a fifth year, I’ve compiled the top 10 posts published this year (see last year’s if you’re interested, 2023’s 2022’s and 2021’s edition). I’ve actually published much less this year (108 vs. 202). Sad but true! Anyway, here’s the top 10: The post The top 10 posts of 202 … | Continue reading
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Remember XD? It was an emoticon used predominately in the early 00s in online chat in North America to represent excitement or happiness. It died out as cultural language changed and evolved but in Poland, it still lives on and is used like it never went out of fashion anywhere. … | Continue reading
Gloving describes a trend of people who do hand tricks wearing special gloves with lights on the ends of the fingers. That’s not the official description but it’s the best tl;dr I’ve got. The video goes in a bit deeper and shows more of how gloving is treated (with irony and a bi … | Continue reading
If you’re reading this, you should be familiar with the seven-day week starting on Sunday or Monday and followed by Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and so on. But there have been instances in history and other cultures where an eight-day week was observed. For exam … | Continue reading
Detroit has a 10-foot bronze Robocop statue now: Sparked by a viral 2011 tweet comparing Detroit’s need for a RoboCop statue to Philadelphia’s Rocky statue, the project grew through massive community collaboration. The post Detroit has a 10-foot bronze Robocop statue now appeared … | Continue reading
The colour wars have now entered the fashion chat: engineers at Cornell University have created the blackest fabric on record, finding it absorbs 99.87 percent of all light that dares to illuminate its surface. The post Don’t tell Anish Kapoor! appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
Betamaxmas is a cool site by Jeffrey Bennett where you can watch random Christmas videos on YouTube through an old CRT. You can flick through the “channels” using the provided remote, make it fullscreen, and even turn the volume up and down. The post Betamaxmas: a retro Christmas … | Continue reading
TIL: Christmas Day is known as Family Day (Día de la Familia) in Uruguay, after a formal separation of the church and the State starting from 1918 and keeping special days without official religious recognition. The post TIL: Christmas Day is known as Family Day in Uruguay appear … | Continue reading
BeMe.com was a website focused on women and lifestyle. It was active in the early 2000s and even got a spot as the sponsor of the US drama series Ally McBeal on Channel 4 in the UK. However, the sponsorship only lasted about a year1 and eventually the site shut down. For many yea … | Continue reading
In the West, the idea of a wedding dress conjures up the following images: But they haven’t always been like that and a lot of those ideas aren’t global. For example, white wedding dresses were more of a Victorian thing that carried into the modern day as a tradition, according t … | Continue reading
Yakutsk is the capital of Sakha in Russia and has the distinctions of being the coldest major city in the world and one of a handful to have continuous permafrost. Kiun B lives there and made a video showing the ways food helps the citizens adapt to the harsh conditions and bring … | Continue reading
Peacock has a new documentary about Black cowboys called High Horse and it’s produce by Jordan Peele and Monkey Paw Productions: The image of the American cowboy is a reflection of our nation’s soul. A symbol of rugged individualism and self-determination, the ethos of American i … | Continue reading
English essayist Henry W. Nevinson defined chivalry as “going about releasing beautiful maidens from other men’s castles, and taking them to your own castle.” via Futility Closet The post A quote of a quote on chivalry appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
My friend Keidra Chaney has a new podcast called Rough Draft with her friend Liz. It’s a semi-processed podcast about how they process culture and I can’t wait to listen. The post My friend made a podcast about culture and zines! appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
Tim Curry spoke to Ben Mankiewicz for CBS Sunday Morning about his memoir, Vagabond, his stroke in 2012 and subsequent recovery and his life and career overall. It was really interesting to hear him talk so much about his life and work and why he didn’t strive for fame and stardo … | Continue reading
Àrokò Cooperative is a worker-owned collective of creatives that aim to break from harmful systems and foster collective liberation through various media and design. One key component is ÀROKÒ.WORLD, a hub for critical analysis and reflection on Blackness and design and how they … | Continue reading
I don’t disagree with this AI Overview but I thought it sounded funny in these terms. The post Bootylinguistics appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
If you were wondering what the best croissants in Paris were, watch this video by Luis. And don’t mind the bombs and tear gas. The post The best croissants in Paris apparently appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
Heaven’s Gate was an American religious cult founded in 1974 by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles. The group had hundreds of followers and combined Christianity with New Age beliefs and ufology to spread the believe that members could achieve immortality and become extraterr … | Continue reading