As we've seen above, our culture at large tends to contemplate these events in images that hail back to the crucifixion of Jesus. The account of the crucifixion of Jesus in turn embodies the focal point of Jewish thought, but comes to us with a fatal wound of a typically pagan archetype...
Much of the best in American horror-literature has come from pens not mainly devoted to that medium. Oliver Wendell Holmes's historicElsie Vennersuggests with admirable restraint an unnatural ophidian element in a young woman prenatally influenced, and sustains the atmosphere with finely discriminating ...
PLOT: Tom and Maria meet and fall in love after each has had the worst day of their lives, not knowing events are going to turn for the even worse when they cross paths with a chainsaw-wielding cannibal. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE APOCRYPHA: Oof, feeling lazy here, so from this wide men...
Check out our editor's top picks for weird events in Portland. View events calendar Editor's Pick Dec. 3, 2024–Jan. 5, 2025 Benson Hotel Annual Gingerbread Display The Benson Portland, Curio Collection by Hilton Free The Benson Portland Curio Collection by Hilton invites the public back...
I give him a lot of credit in making his life more interesting but it leaves a lot to be desired. You will see big time skips, sudden story arches, huge life events glanced over, and get some cheap laughs along the way. Go into this film without having high expectations and you may...
PLOT: Hard-drinking playboy and would-be colonialist Tony hires the solicitous Barret as a manservant, despite the fact that his fiancée takes a dislike to the new employee. Barret convinces Tony to hire his sister as a maid, which sets off a chain of events that eventually leads to the...
I found this book to be gripping. It kept my attention throughout with a mix of humor, gallows humor, and bleak moments. My most intense criticism involves the description of events leading up to, as well as during, the climax. There were moments where my attention was drawn from the st...
Below are artifacts from theRichardson brothers2005Free Republic of Duluthevents. The idea was a Duluth secession into a city-state embodyingSituationistideas of art-as-life. It culminated in a community art event atWashington Studioswhere these were displayed. Allen and I created these in the sp...
to their very own plot of land in the mountains, where they can live on their own terms. Jonah’s chance encounter with an unnamed drifter (DJ Qualls) who foretells the end of the world sets a chain of events in motion that leads to drastic changes in his lifestyle and worldview. ...
Surely they were the weirdest, most destructive and wasteful megatheria in the whole history of mechanical invention. View in context Nature's Weirdest Event BBC Four, 7.30pm Chris Packham investigates unusual natural events, with the help of eyewitness accounts, scientists and footage of the occur...