Culture Watch

A public service message: How you can fight back against Twitter "Direct Messages from anyone"

Onsite, SlashGear's Chris Burns will show you how to get to this box (click to enlarge) and how to double-check and if necessary fix your Direct Messages setting.by KenTwitterWorld appears to be all atwitter over a feature that apparently has been long talked about but is only now being gradually introduced: "Direct Messages from anyone." Now, I don't re

Remember how last night we were talking about right-wing zillionaires and energy giants buying control of our cash-hungry nonprofits?

Do you want to know who made this lovely little documentary about Serge Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes possible?by KenThis is another of those stories you couldn't make up.Last night I wrote a post called "'Why are science museums in bed with science deniers?' (actor-activist Mark Ruffalo)," which I had finished far enough ahead of time (an hour, and maybe even a few minutes more) that by the time it was posting, I was enjoying an episode of DCI Banks on my local PBS station.

Culture Watch: Have you checked lately to make sure you've got shoes on each of your feet?

All photos by Mitch Waxmanby KenAs a serial stuff-loser my own personal stuff, I'm all too aware of how easy it is to lose, er, stuff -- anytime, anyplace. But you'd think there are certain limits that aren't easily breached. Like we all know the old saying about how you'd lose your head if it wasn't screwed on.

Culture Watch: Land sakes alive, how I remember that $24.95 diner cheeseburger that I never had!

Illustration by Gary Taxaliby KenFor the benefit of those to whom it has never occurred that someday they may look back nostalgically on that cheeseburger at a diner on 57th Street that cost $24.95 as, you know,  a cheeseburger at a diner on 57th Street that cost $24.95, I present the first paragraph of Ian Frazier's "Shouts and Murmurs" piece, "