Culture
December 31, 2025
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RenderTattoo: How The Spanish Artist Brings A Cinematic Vision To Tattoos

Angel Nunes Lazaro, known professionally as RenderTattoo, has carved a distinctive niche in the global tattoo industry. Based in New York City, the Spanish artist specializes in black and gray realism and blackwork, blending dramatic contrasts, intricate details, and a cinematic approach to skin art. With nearly a decade of experience and a career spanning […]

Culture
December 29, 2025
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Pope Leo XIII on the restoration of Christian philosophy

Jul 8, 2025 This is the first in a series of episodes (accompanied by articles) surveying the most important encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII. His third encyclical, Aeterni Patris (1879), on the restoration of Christian philosophy, famously called for a revival of the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas. Links Thomas’s article on Aeterni Patris, “Leo […]

Culture
December 28, 2025
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〜ている (Teiru) vs 〜てある (Tearu) vs 〜ておく(Teoku)

Learning to differentiate the subtle nuances between 〜ている, 〜てある, and 〜ておく might be one of the biggest headaches for Japanese learners. Not only do they look similar, but they can all serve a similar purpose, too: these grammar patterns describe a situation created by some intentional action done in the past. Despite their similarities, each […]

Culture
December 27, 2025
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Salvador Dalí’s Surreal Jewelry Designs: From Throbbing Heart Necklaces to Medusa Brooches

Upon hear­ing the name of Sal­vador Dalí, even a total lay­man in the art world is bound to get visions of melt­ing clocks. Sur­pris­ing­ly, for an artist who showed so much self-mar­ket­ing savvy, Dalí nev­er brought an actu­al time­piece in that dis­tinc­tive­ly, even canon­i­cal­ly sur­re­al shape to mar­ket. But that hard­ly stopped Carti­er from putting […]

Culture
December 26, 2025
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How to Make New Year’s Resolutions That You’ll Actually Stick To

2026 is coming. It’s time to set some New Year’s resolutions that you will definitely not abandon by March. After all, this is the year you’ll get your life together. “Typically, at the end of the year, we start to reflect on how the year went, what was good, what was bad, what we accomplished, […]

Culture
December 25, 2025
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The First Ever AI Fashion Week

This event is a great opportunity for designers to showcase their talents and for the public to see the potential of AI in the fashion industry. It will also be a great opportunity for sponsors and fashion industry leaders to see the potential of AI in fashion and to support and invest in the industry. […]

Culture
December 24, 2025
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Public engagement begins for new South Asian Canadian museum — BC Alliance for Arts + Culture

This Press Release is provided as courtesy of BC Gov News. A new website will provide British Columbians with opportunities to share their vision for a new museum to highlight the history, culture and contributions to B.C. from Canadians of diverse South Asian heritages. The public engagement process will provide multiple and different opportunities for participation informed […]

Culture
December 23, 2025
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Invisible Rabbits and Holy Fools: Celebrating Harvey’s 75th Anniversary

What could be sweeter or more wholesome than the story of a man who’s best friends with a 6-foot-3 1/2-inch rabbit? Henry Koster’s film Harvey, based on Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, turns 75 this month, and for those 75 years, it’s been fondly remembered by audiences as a gentle, whimsical tale of neighborliness, anchored […]

Culture
December 22, 2025
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Magic and Loss: A Conversation With Snuggle

The real fate of Ophelia, Shakespeare’s heroine who goes into deep grief after the death of her lover Hamlet? She drowns herself. As captured by painter John Everett Millais in 1851-1852, she’s surrounded by verdant greenery and flowers rich with colour. But while her milky, deathly pallor suggests death, her open hands and mouth hint […]

Culture
December 21, 2025
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Edgelords, Profanity, & Taming the Tongue w/ Matthew Schmitz

Dec 16, 2025 For the past century or more, the left has put a high value on moral provocation, deliberately transgressing what they see as society’s hypocritical or puritanical moral norms, whether in religion, sexuality, or public decorum in general. Now the right, too, is getting in on the fun, performatively violating the speech norms […]