<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Culture & Media - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Culture & Media news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening!]]></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:16:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The History of Glam Rock and How It Put an End to the Hippie Era]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cast your mind back to the distant year 2021 and recall, if you will, its music, its fashions, the obsessions of its youth. This probably won&rsquo;t be a difficult task, since in most respects &mdash; the dampening effects of the pandemic notwithstanding &mdash; none of those aspects of popular culture seem any different today. Yet roughly the same time span separated Scott McKenzie&rsquo;s &ldquo;San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)&rdquo; and David Bowie&rsquo;s &ldquo;Starman]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-history-of-glam-rock-and-how-it-put-an-end-to-the-hippie-era/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-history-of-glam-rock-and-how-it-put-an-end-to-the-hippie-era/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Ancient Greek Warships Worked: The Engineering of the Trireme Explained in 3D Animation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Recall, if you will, the first time you read Book 2 of Homer&rsquo;s Iliad. The section likely to have given you the most trouble &mdash; unless, of course, you&rsquo;re blessed with an obsessive interest in ancient naval warfare &mdash; is the much-remarked-upon Catalogue of Ships, a rundown of not just the contingents of the Achaean army sailing to Troy, but also the ships they&rsquo;re doing it in. However evocative Homer&rsquo;s poetry, more than a few modern readers may face a certain diffi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/how-ancient-greek-warships-worked-the-engineering-of-the-trireme-explained-in-3d-animation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/how-ancient-greek-warships-worked-the-engineering-of-the-trireme-explained-in-3d-animation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read 20,000+ Golden Age Comic Books Free Online: Superheroes, Westerns, Romance, Horror, and More]]></title><description><![CDATA[For generations of kids in the twentieth century, few pleasures were as intoxicating as a trip to the comic-book shop with the week&rsquo;s allowance fresh in hand. Those of us who grew up in the nineties had any number of high-production-value paper superhero spectacles from major publishers on which to blow our money. Personally, I preferred the greater value of Carl Barks&rsquo; old Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck stories then being reprinted. But nothing offered quite so much value as the car]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/read-20000-golden-age-comic-books-free-online-superheroes-westerns-romance-horror-and-more/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/read-20000-golden-age-comic-books-free-online-superheroes-westerns-romance-horror-and-more/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Did Ancient Rome Look Like? A 3D Virtual Tour of the City During the Second Century AD]]></title><description><![CDATA[The description &ldquo;open-air museum&rdquo; has often been applied, in various senses both positive and negative, to the country of Italy in general and the city of Rome in particular. Indeed, only the imagination of a truly blinkered (or unusually phone-addicted) tourist could fail to be cast back to antiquity upon entering its historic center, itself an officially designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. Yet it also takes little exposure to the intense culture of tourism and all it has wrought]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/what-did-ancient-rome-look-like-a-3d-virtual-tour-of-the-city-during-the-second-century-ad/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/what-did-ancient-rome-look-like-a-3d-virtual-tour-of-the-city-during-the-second-century-ad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch the Evolution of Manhattan Unfold in a Timelapse Video, from 1600 to 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Manhattan without skyscrapers sounds difficult, if not impossible, to imagine today. But such a place really did exist, at least up until the turn of the twentieth century. While the title of the very first skyscraper ever built may go to the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, New York City caught up so aggressively thereafter &mdash; in its characteristic style &mdash; that it soon became practically synonymous with tall steel-framed towers. The shape of modern Manhattan would surely have be]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/watch-the-evolution-of-manhattan-unfold-in-a-timelapse-video-from-1600-to-2026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/watch-the-evolution-of-manhattan-unfold-in-a-timelapse-video-from-1600-to-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Mapmakers Put Fake Towns on Their Maps in the 1920s — and the One That Became Real]]></title><description><![CDATA[Open Culture readers may know John Green best for Crash Course, the YouTube channel that teaches everything you need to know about subjects like world history, U.S. history, big history, literature, and philosophy. Or at least it teaches everything a teenage student facing down the prospect of Advanced Placement subject exams needs to know. Such viewers have always had a decent chance of knowing Green as the author of novels for young readers like Looking for Alaska,&nbsp;The Fault in Our Stars,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/why-mapmakers-put-fake-towns-on-their-maps-in-the-1920s-and-the-one-that-became-real/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/why-mapmakers-put-fake-towns-on-their-maps-in-the-1920s-and-the-one-that-became-real/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Guide to Every Major Film Adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey Before Christopher Nolan’s Movie]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you plan on shooting your own adaptation of Homer&rsquo;s Odyssey, bear in mind how much rests on your choice of leading man. In order to play Odysseus, an actor must summon a real gravitas, but also a still-smoldering vitality: here is a man who led the Greek army to defeat Troy, but still has the doggedness to make the decade-long journey back home to his wife. In the mid-nineteen-fifties, Hollywood had just the chin for the job: Kirk Douglas, who plays Odysseus under his Latin name in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/a-guide-to-every-major-film-adaptation-of-homers-odyssey-before-christopher-nolans-movie/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/a-guide-to-every-major-film-adaptation-of-homers-odyssey-before-christopher-nolans-movie/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a 13th-Century Monk Created a Prayer Manuscript by Writing Over—and Accidentally Preserving—Archimedes’ Groundbreaking Mathematical Works]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Jerusalem of the year 1229, there lived a Greek Orthodox monk named Johannes Myronas. Needing some parchment for a prayer book, he grabbed some already-used pages, erased their existing content, and over them wrote down &ldquo;prayers for the dead, prayers for repentance, blessings for the loaves at Easter, and even a prayer for those who were unreasonably excluded,&rdquo; says math-and-science YouTuber Ben Syversen in the video above. Myronas may have fulfilled his religious duty without usi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/how-a-13th-century-monk-created-a-prayer-manuscript-by-writing-overand-accidentally-preservingarchimedes-groundbreaking-mathematical-works/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/how-a-13th-century-monk-created-a-prayer-manuscript-by-writing-overand-accidentally-preservingarchimedes-groundbreaking-mathematical-works/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens Explains Why Homer’s Odyssey Still Matters to Our World (2000)]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the moment, the answer to the question of why we should read Homer&rsquo;s&nbsp;Odyssey seems rather straightforward: so we can more intelligently voice our opinions on Christopher Nolan&rsquo;s new blockbuster film adaptation. A quarter-century ago, the matter was somewhat less clear. Still, an occasion had presented itself in the form of a new English translation, by University of Kansas classics professor Stanley Lombardo. That book, and the work of Homer in general, was the subject of a l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/christopher-hitchens-explains-why-homers-odyssey-still-matters-to-our-world-2000/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/christopher-hitchens-explains-why-homers-odyssey-still-matters-to-our-world-2000/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christopher Nolan Picks 15 Favorite Films from the Criterion Closet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maybe you&rsquo;ve already seen Christopher Nolan&rsquo;s new cinematic interpretation of the Odyssey&nbsp;more than once; maybe you don&rsquo;t know whether you&rsquo;ll ever get around to it at all. Either way, you&rsquo;ve got to admit that the man makes films in a way very few living directors do. His combination of blockbuster-scale spectacle and personal vision, a rare experience indeed at the theater these days, can really only be achieved by filmmakers with a thoroughgoing love of the me]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/christopher-nolan-picks-15-favorite-films-from-the-criterion-closet/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/christopher-nolan-picks-15-favorite-films-from-the-criterion-closet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Did Europe’s Countries—and the United Kingdom—Get Their Names?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The typical student traveling on a Eurail pass will stop in such lands as &Ouml;sterreich, Italia, &#268;esko and&nbsp;Schweiz &mdash; also known as Suisse, Svizzera, and Svizra. If that student happens to hail from the English-speaking world, the names Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic (the recent movement&nbsp;for Czechia notwithstanding), and Switzerland will sound more familiar. But the question inevitably comes to mind while&nbsp;riding between one&nbsp;historically and culturally rich cap]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/where-did-europes-countriesand-the-united-kingdomget-their-names/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/where-did-europes-countriesand-the-united-kingdomget-their-names/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Free Online Archive Lets You Explore 5.8 Million Works of Art Spanning 5,000 Years of History]]></title><description><![CDATA[Though it&rsquo;s traditionally meant &ldquo;last in a progression or series,&rdquo; as Merriam-Webster puts it,&nbsp;the word ultimate&nbsp;has been more often used in recent decades to mean &ldquo;the best or most extreme of its kind.&rdquo; The name of a recently launched digital archive performs a rare inversion,&nbsp;labeling as&nbsp;last&nbsp;a creation marked not by&nbsp;finality but extremity. Billed as &ldquo;the largest search engine for museum art,&rdquo;&nbsp;The Last Museum&nbsp;cu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/a-free-online-archive-lets-you-explore-58-million-works-of-art-spanning-5000-years-of-history/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/a-free-online-archive-lets-you-explore-58-million-works-of-art-spanning-5000-years-of-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Did Everything Begin?: Animations on the Origins of the Universe Narrated by X‑Files Star Gillian Anderson]]></title><description><![CDATA[We previously brought you the BBC series of short animated videos, A History of Ideas. Produced in collaboration with the UK&rsquo;s Open University and narrated by Harry Shearer, these fun introductions to such philosophers as Simone de Beauvoir and Edmund Burke, and such weighty philosophical topics as free will and the problem of evil, make challenging, abstract concepts accessible to non-philosophers. Now the series is back with a new chapter, How Did Everything Begin?, a survey of several t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/how-did-everything-begin-animations-on-the-origins-of-the-universe-narrated-by-xfiles-star-gillian-anderson/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/how-did-everything-begin-animations-on-the-origins-of-the-universe-narrated-by-xfiles-star-gillian-anderson/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Umberto Eco&rsquo;s The Name of the Rose&nbsp;sold so well that its English translator William Weaver could add an extension onto his Tuscan villa, which he called the &ldquo;Eco Chamber.&rdquo; The Biblioteca Eco, or Eco Library, whose ribbon-cutting earlier this month you can see in the Italian news clip just above, may not be as wittily named, but it&rsquo;s a much more ambitious project. It was opened this year,&nbsp;the tenth anniversary of the famed philosopher, semiotician, novelist, and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/umberto-ecos-personal-library-opens-to-the-public-more-than-32000-books-exactly-as-he-left-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/umberto-ecos-personal-library-opens-to-the-public-more-than-32000-books-exactly-as-he-left-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the Haunting Sound of an Ancient Celtic War Trumpet: Silent for 2,000 Years, It Now Sounds Again]]></title><description><![CDATA[Norfolk is known for its network of rivers and lakes, its stock of medieval churches, and for being the&nbsp;home county of Alan Partridge. Last year, it quite literally unearthed another mark of distinction in the form of an iron age war trumpet.&nbsp;&ldquo;The bronze trumpet or carnyx is only the third ever found in Britain, and the most complete example discovered anywhere in the world,&rdquo; writes the&nbsp;Guardian&rsquo;s Esther Addley. &ldquo;Fashioned in the shape of a snarling wild an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/hear-the-haunting-sound-of-an-ancient-celtic-war-trumpet-silent-for-2000-years-it-now-sounds-again/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/hear-the-haunting-sound-of-an-ancient-celtic-war-trumpet-silent-for-2000-years-it-now-sounds-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World’s Greatest Song That Simply Shouldn’t Exist: The Making of The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Were we to take bets on the single most widely heard alarm clock, the one included on the Beatles&rsquo; &ldquo;A Day in the Life&rdquo; would surely be a popular choice. It comes, you&rsquo;ll recall, at the beginning of the song&rsquo;s middle section, when Paul takes over from John and sings about waking up, combing his hair, catching a bus, and having a smoke. Given the lyrics&rsquo; subject matter, its inclusion seems natural, and even like one of the most straightforwardly explicable choic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-worlds-greatest-song-that-simply-shouldnt-exist-the-making-of-the-beatles-a-day-in-the-life/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-worlds-greatest-song-that-simply-shouldnt-exist-the-making-of-the-beatles-a-day-in-the-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Did the Monk’s Haircut Come From? A Look at the Rich and Contentious History of the Tonsure]]></title><description><![CDATA[One might assume from a modern viewpoint that the hairstyles worn by monks arose to deal with male pattern baldness anxiety. As in the school uniform approach, you can&rsquo;t single out one person&rsquo;s baldness when everyone is bald. But this, again, would be a modern view, full of the vanity the tonsured&mdash;those with religiously shaven heads&mdash;ostensibly vowed to renounce. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the tonsure (from the Latin verb for &ldquo;to shear&rdquo;) began as a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/where-did-the-monks-haircut-come-from-a-look-at-the-rich-and-contentious-history-of-the-tonsure/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/where-did-the-monks-haircut-come-from-a-look-at-the-rich-and-contentious-history-of-the-tonsure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Radical, Unclassifiable Art of William Blake]]></title><description><![CDATA[William Blake is a household name, or not far from it, but things get more complicated when it comes to professional description. He was a poet, a painter, and a printmaker, at least insofar as he wrote poetry, painted paintings, and made prints. But we can&rsquo;t hope to attain even a basic understanding of his legacy if we regard him as one man who happened to have the energy to do three different things. In fact, the ostensibly separate artistic pursuits in which he engaged were but three as]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-radical-unclassifiable-art-of-william-blake/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-radical-unclassifiable-art-of-william-blake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Walk Through Homer’s Odyssey: A Guide to the Epic Before Seeing Christopher Nolan’s Film]]></title><description><![CDATA[You&rsquo;re gearing up to see Christopher Nolan&rsquo;s Odyssey, but you haven&rsquo;t read the Homeric work. Or you read it so long ago that it feels like you&rsquo;ve never read it at all. No worries. Above, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, the hosts of The Rest Is History podcast, take you through the major plot lines of the Odyssey, unpacking the literary and historical meaning of the epic&rsquo;s different tales. It&rsquo;s a good primer&mdash;just what you need to get ready for one of t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/a-walk-through-homers-odyssey-a-guide-to-the-epic-before-seeing-christopher-nolans-film/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/a-walk-through-homers-odyssey-a-guide-to-the-epic-before-seeing-christopher-nolans-film/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Origins of the Monsters in Homer&rsquo;s Odyssey: The Cyclops, Sirens, Scylla &amp; More]]></title><description><![CDATA[Despite having been composed about two and a half millennia before the invention of cinema,&nbsp;Homer&rsquo;s&nbsp;Odyssey has offered tempting material to generation after generation of filmmakers. Part of the appeal is, of course, the work&rsquo;s age, which obviates the need for potentially frustrating rights negotiations. But what really captures a director&rsquo;s imagination about retelling the story of Odysseus&rsquo; long journey back to Ithaca must have a great deal to do with the host]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-origins-of-the-monsters-in-homerrsquos-odyssey-the-cyclops-sirens-scylla-amp-more/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/culture-and-media/the-origins-of-the-monsters-in-homerrsquos-odyssey-the-cyclops-sirens-scylla-amp-more/</guid></item></channel></rss>