For 2025, the most notable include Disney titles such as Silly Symphony short The Skeleton Dance and Mickey Mouse shorts such as “Karnival Kid,” the first to feature his voice. Either of those ...
If the 2024 fashion trends were anything to go by, the year has been, in a word, chaotic. Thanks to Instagram algorithms and TikTok FYPs, it felt as if sweeping trends—and smaller microtrends ...
Queen Elizabeth once described Northern Ireland’s Orange marches as ‘silly business’, newly unsealed government papers have revealed. The annual Orange marches of Protestants in Northern ...
In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2024, Bilge Ebiri, K. Austin Collins, Alison Willmore, and Odie Henderson—about the year in cinema ...
Not many of us are able to take a full 12-day break over Christmas anymore, but the history of the season is a reminder to stay silly, not take the holiday too seriously, and go easy on ourselves ...
The Ig Nobel prizes are famed for their spotlighting of offbeat research. Nature investigates how some winners feel about their ‘honour’. Marc Abrahams created the Ig Nobel prizes in 1991 ...