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Emerson, Lake and Palmer: 10 Essential Songs
“I was scared shitless,” the late Keith Emerson told Mojo in 2001, remembering the start of Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s 1977 tour of America — at the time, the most…
Everything you need to know about the elusive but extraordinary Alec Guinness
Any list of the twentieth century’s finest actors is incomplete without Alec Guinness. Yet it’s a name some might overlook because there was never anything remotely showy — or even…
The Beautiful Intersection of Art and Architecture in Renaissance Painting
Architecture and Painting – Two Interwoven Aesthetic Universes Renaissance theoreticians have given architecture a central place among the visual arts, but is there Renaissance art that has a clear architectural…
Plato, Nietzsche, and 11 Other Philosophers Who Used Mind-Altering Drugs
The Psychedelic Influence on Philosophy MMXVI Philosophy itself often arrives as a mind-altering experience, a new mode of perception unto our cosmos, at times so radical as to be hazardous.…
Making of Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Stalker”
Named by the British Film Institute as one of the fifty greatest movies of all time, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 science fiction masterpiece called Stalker is, among many other things, a…
Rome wasn’t planned in a day … in fact it wasn’t planned at all
The grid system which the Roman republic exported all over Europe was never employed in the capital itself. The city has always lacked a coherent plan – save for the…
The 15 Greatest Movie Directors Championed by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert was widely regarded as one of the most prolific and influential film critics of all time. As the first film critic to win both the Pulitzer Prize for…
What Makes Vertigo the Best Film of All Time?
Vertigo is the greatest motion picture of all time. Or so say the results of the latest round of respected film magazine Sight & Sound‘s long-running critics poll, in which Alfred Hitchcock’s James Stewart-…
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