Today at Flavorpill, we found out what as seen on TV products actually work. We felt Kathie Lee Gifford’s mortifying embarrassment. We enjoyed Neil Patrick Harris’ Tony Awards promos. We ...
Today marks the 49th anniversary of teen idol Lesley Gore’s American Bandstand performance of “It’s My Party” — a chart-topper with a catchy, melodramatic, but unmistakably girl’s-e...
Graham MacIndoe‘s photographs of missing persons posters, which we first saw on PetaPixel, document the sad and desperate public pleas to locate lost love ones. The images are spare, quiet, and...
Is wandering a vast digital space like wandering the streets? Is capturing one of the infinite street corners and angles comparable to “traditional” photography? There will always be deba...
Madeline Miller should be feeling pretty good right about now. Not only does she have the distinction of beating out serious competition from more established writers like Ann Patchett and Cynthia Oz...
Welcome to Flavorpill’s streaming movie guide, in which we help you sift through the scores of movies streaming on Netflix, Hulu, and other services to find the best of the recently available, ...
We previously discussed Sunday night’s controversial episode of Mad Men earlier today, but that doesn’t mean we’re quite ready to table “The Other Woman” just yet. In a ...
We know no man is an island, but that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t love to live on one. After spotting these adorable tiny houses on tiny islands over on one of our favorite niche design blog...
What does your morning commute look like? Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena, whose work we spotted over at Visual News, offers a fascinating look at the morning rides of many Mexican workers, ...
Having missed the chance to see Sigur Rós live, only to hear that they were going on “indefinite hiatus,” we spent a reasonable amount of the last couple of years cursing ourselves for ou...
Maybe it’s because we spotted Laughing Squid’s post about this project just before lunchtime, and maybe it’s because the Flavorwire staff is a bit obsessed with sandwiches, but we a...
Are the famous canals, bridges, and squares in crowded Venice ever free of people? If you ask anyone who lives there or any tourist who has ever visited, they’d probably proclaim, “Never!...
As with most great fiction, personal morality has always been a central concern for Mad Men. What makes someone a good or bad person? Do intentions count, or are we defined by our actions? Does a rou...
I imagine that watching all eight Harry Potter movies one after the other — as I did several months ago, after years of resistance to the entire franchise for what were, in retrospect, very stu...
This week, The New Yorker published their first ever science fiction issue, filled with speculative stories from popular authors, many not necessarily known for their sci-fi writing: Junot Díaz, Jenn...
Looking for a new misanthropic anthem? Of course you are! Well, here is none other than Beck to oblige you with the A-side to his new single, “I Just Started Hating Some People Today.” Th...
There are times when you don’t want to see how the cinematic sausage gets made. But in the case of this fascinating clip shot on a GoPro camera that Steadicam operator Larry McConkey attached t...
Duets seem to be everywhere these days, folks. Partly because ABC recently debuted its reality singing competition, Duets, but mostly because we can’t walk ten feet without hearing Gotye’...
1. American music legend Arthel “Doc” Watson — the blind guitarist who helped pioneer the folk revival of the early 1960s, and won eight Grammys over the course of his career —...
Today at Flavorpill, we worried about cannibal sharks (200 yards from shore). We recited 25 of the best catchphrases in television history. We practiced 20 ways to open a beer bottle. We learned what...
Sunday’s episode of Girls reminded us that “crack is wack.” Worlds collided at a party in Bushwick where Hannah peeled back another layer of the oddball onion that is Adam, Marnie p...
Michael Haneke’s new movie Amour wasn’t the sure bet to win Cannes’ prestigious Palme d’Or award at this year’s festival. Italian director Nanni Moretti — who was sittin...
You’ll be thanking modern technology after viewing our photo gallery of vintage cars that have been wrecked in auto accidents. The fragile, skeletal frames of early automobiles look like beauti...
Can you imagine what it would be like to throw Edward Scissorhands and Wolverine into the same room? How about pairing Patrick Bateman with Jack Torrance, the scary little girl from The Ring with the...
They tell us you can have too much of a good thing, but where the Muppets are concerned, we haven’t found that to be the case. For about a year now, Jim Henson-related stuff has been coming at ...
According to The New York Times, the State of New York has a strange project on its hands — it is attempting to sell off some of its old, disused prisons, left vacant after falling crime rates ...
We recently took issue with the sizable, baffling group of A Clockwork Orange cultists who seem to think the novel’s “ultraviolent” protagonist, Alex, is the height of cool. To idol...
Grilling out with a group of your friends. Cooling down with a swim in the lake. Sleeping in a tent under the stars. These all sound like traditional summertime activities, and yet Daniel Cronin̵...
People sure do love CBGB now that it doesn’t exist anymore, don’t they? Not only is a CBGB music festival coming to New York in July, but there’s also a movie called CBGB in the wor...
Here at Flavorpill, we can be bit old-fashioned. We usually prefer our books made of bound paper, but we admit the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon has us all running for our Kindles — or buying...
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