Open Culture » Ted Mills

Are you feeling confident about the future? No? We understand. Would you like to know what it was like to feel a deep certainty that the decades to come were going to be filled with wonder and th...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/07/sci-fi-writer-arthur-c-clarke-predicts-the-future-in-1964-artificial-intelligence-instantaneous-global-communication-remote-work-more.html

The last we checked in with teenage girl power-punk band The Linda Lindas, they were tearing up the Los Angeles Public Library (Cypress Park branch) with their lockdown-hit “Racist, Sexist Boy....

https://www.openculture.com/2022/07/the-young-punk-rockers-the-linda-lindas-play-a-tiny-desk-concert-gig-at-the-public-library.html

When they finally get those kinks worked out of the time machine and we can take a tourist trip back to Rome—having signed the non-intervention paperwork, of course—we’re going to need some...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/06/bars-beer-wine-in-ancient-rome-an-introduction-to-roman-nightlife-and-spirits.html

In 1965, Lou Reed was a 23-year-old graduate stalled in a music and art career he wasn’t sure would take off. A few years earlier a doo-wop single recorded with high school friends had been rel...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/06/lou-reed-album-with-demos-of-velvet-underground-songs-getting-released.html

If you live in Kyoto or are traveling to Japan in the next two months or, who knows, maybe you have a whole lotta miles saved up on your credit card, Brian Eno has a career-spanning exhibition go...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/06/ambient-kyoto-brian-eno-stages-his-first-large-scale-exhibition-in-japan.html

Letting a beloved film director wander through the aisles of a well-stocked video store feels like such guaranteed YouTube fodder that it’s a surprise it really hasn’t been done until recentl...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/05/terry-gilliam-visits-a-video-store-talks-about-his-favorite-movies.html

Since 1990, Martin Scorsese has devoted the non-filmmaking part of his career to film preservation, whether that means the classics of Hollywood or world cinema. The over 900 restorations that he...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/05/martin-scorsese-foundation-launches-virtual-screening-room.html

As someone who had mastered radio, film, and stage at such a young age, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Orson Welles once flirted with the idea of running for office. It never happened, but Wel...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/05/when-orson-welles-became-a-speech-joke-writer-for-franklin-delano-roosevelt.html

With a few exceptions, car design of the last two decades has been stuck in a rut, with a sameness on the outside—-aerodynamic, sleek, rounded—-hiding the advancements under the hood and in t...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/05/how-people-imagined-in-1948-what-cars-would-look-like-in-the-future.html

No 90s band flew as low under that radar as Cambridge, Massachusetts three-piece Morphine. Too odd for nostalgia radio, not commercial enough to pop up on a big-time modern soundtrack, Morphine e...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/04/revisit-morphine-the-90s-power-trio-who-played-the-two-string-bass-saxophone-drums.html

When it comes to supporting the Ukrainian people in their battle against the Russian invasion, it helps when an opportunity matches our own interest. On this site that means directly funding the ...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/04/discover-18-underground-bands-from-ukraine.html

The case of the copyright history of Fritz Lang’s influential sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis is as convoluted as the history of its film print. Lang’s vision, and his original almost-three-hou...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/04/fritz-langs-iconic-film-metropolis-with-a-kraftwerk-soundtrack.html

Brian Cox has maneuvered over four decades of acting while remaining a bit anonymous from one role to the next. Or at least that was the case until his star turn as Logan Roy, the stentorian patr...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/04/watch-brian-cox-of-succession-read-hunter-s-thompsons-profanity-laden-letter.html

Though not as well known as Johnny Cash’s concerts at Folsom and San Quentin prisons, James Brown’s 1972 concert at Rikers Island equally quelled rising tensions, and displayed the humility o...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/03/when-james-brown-played-rikers-island-50-years-ago-1972.html

The original rock supergroup, Cream, lasted two years, changed the course of rock music, barely held together because of rancor between members and said goodbye in 1968. Their farewell concert at...

https://www.openculture.com/2022/03/fan-faithfully-reconstructs-creams-final-concert.html