Since it debuted in 2009, Rovio's Angry Birds series has seen people finding joy in using a catapult to fling furious feathered friends at pigs taking shelter in fragile structures. A decade earlier, Konami's Silent Hill started its reign of terror with a psychological horror game that paved the way for a successful long-running franchise.
The ingenuity was, at times, undeniable. One production house had devised software to map out film shoots: where trucks should park, which streets to close, how many shooting days were required, and staffing needed.
Heated Rivalry was recognized for its ability to tackle complex themes of sexuality and emotional connection, inspiring fans and promoting non-toxic masculinity, ultimately making what was arguably the biggest cultural impact in television this year.
The medieval era was very much about church music, partially because that's where a lot of the creativity was happening, and partially because the church was the primary institution, along with universities, dedicated to writing things down.
During this Depression, when the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles.
Phil Collins, already a Hall of Fame member with Genesis, is recognized for hits like In the Air Tonight and One More Night, earning eight Grammys, including album of the year in 1985 for No Jacket Required.
Faces of Death follows a pathologist trying to understand what happens when we die, subjecting himself and the viewer to a series of 'snuff' films depicting violent deaths.
Big Mama Thornton exuded uncompromising intensity. Her voice conveyed struggle and defiance, fury and hurt, like few others. She was a Black, gay multi-instrumentalist who refused to let a racist society or a rapacious industry confine her.
Zelda and Theology feels less like a novelty and more like a natural evolution of the franchise's cultural footprint, treating games as texts worthy of serious analysis.
On May 2, 2025, arts and cultural organizations across the country received notifications that grants and funding promised by the National Endowment for the Arts were being rescinded. This was part of a larger initiative by the Trump Administration to dismantle not just the NEA, but also other arts advocacy programs including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Gabrielle Goliath will independently present three new suites of her performance project Elegy, which mourns victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza, during the forthcoming 61st Venice Biennale after her eponymous proposal for the South African Pavilion was notoriously axed.
Kanya King stated, 'Black music shapes what we listen to, how we speak, how we dress, how we tell our stories and I guess it's defined as Britain's cultural identity but structurally and institutionally is still often treated as m.'
"Tonight isn't about looking back into the past, but it's about what it means to us, still, tonight," Cyrus said during her opening remarks. "For me, now that I get to be a part of it that I never could when I was in the middle of everything."
Michael Jackson not that one, the BBC Two controller wanted to be more like Channel 4, so decided to commission a cool drama for young people about trainee lawyers. When I told [executive producer] Tony Garnett that I'd briefly been a lawyer, his eyes lit up. But I didn't want to write a show about lawyers! Fuck, so boring. That's why I'd left to become a writer.
The Ramones' first, self-titled album was released on April 23, 1976. It was recorded over seven days on the eighth floor of New York's Radio City Music Hall and cost $6,400 at the time—an almost laughably small amount compared with the big budgets common in the record industry then. Even so, it is considered one of the most influential albums in the history of popular music.
Prior to our show, gay characters were seen either as clowns or eunuchs on shows, and they were very non-sexual, non-threatening, and either the goofy buddy or some tragic kind of figure. I think our show was able to dispel all that, and it was able to show them as three-dimensional human beings.
Our movie is among the top reasons that tourists come to Salzburg ... and it's easy to feel that you've been transported back in time and into our film. Every corner that you turn, there's something beautiful to see.
Using the diary recollections of Coppola's wife, the late Eleanor Coppola, who was also disconsolately aboard and feeling thoroughly shut out of the alpha male chatting and joshing, Fischer shows our three dishevelled deities dizzied and stunned and even weirdly depressed by their staggering global acclaim.
I've never seen so many people talk about Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights. It's been quite mind-blowing - really, very surreal. We talk about the Brontës every day and everyone else is kind of joining in on this conversation, and it is everywhere. So many people are picking up the book for the first time and discovering the Brontës for the first time.
"It's a huge, huge cultural loss for not just the current musicians, but the musicians of the future, especially working-class ones that used to have this as one of the few possibilities of getting inside the craft," she said.
