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    • THE KEY WEST FILM FESTIVAL 2024

    THE KEY WEST FILM FESTIVAL 2024

    Other spotlight films include Gia Coppola’s THE LAST SHOWGIRL, featuring a career defining performance by Pamela Anderson as a seasoned Las Vegas showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run; the inspirational true story UNSTOPPABLE, featuring Jennifer Lopez and Bobby Cannavale alongside Jharrel James (also in Moonlight), who stars as Anthony Robles, an athlete born with one leg who defies expectations to become a champion wrestler in college; and BETTER MAN, from director Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman), based on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams, one of the greatest entertainers of all time.

    Purcell-Cutts House

    Purcell-Cutts House

    Their design followed many of Chicago architect Louis Sullivan’s principles of organic architecture, which held that buildings should reflect their surrounding environments, in the same way that a plant grows “naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.”

    Mexico’s Vampire Witch Has a Twisted Origin Story

    Mexico’s Vampire Witch Has a Twisted Origin Story

    About 20 years ago, while anthropologist and independent scholar Edgar MartĂ­n del Campo lived with the Nahua and Otomi people of the rural region of Huasteca, including Chicontepec, he explored the complicated folklore of the teyollohcuani.

    Saint Exupéry Monument

    Saint Exupéry Monument

    In 1935, Saint-Exupéry and his navigator André Prévot crashed in the Libyan desert while trying to break a record for fastest flight from Paris to Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City).

    Appalachia’s Ugliest Cryptid Drowns In Its Own Tears

    The second Squonkapalooza took place August 10, 2024, and it proved equally popular, with hundreds of visitors perusing the vendor stands in Johnstown’s Central Park and watching lectures, podcast recordings, and movie screenings in the State Theater.

    Oiwa Inari Shrines

    Oiwa Inari Shrines

    If you visit Yotsuya today, you may find another interesting thing in the area: There are two Inari shrines dedicated to Lady Oiwa, almost facing each other on the same street.

    1904 World’s Fair Swedish Pavilion

    1904 World’s Fair Swedish Pavilion

    With its cheery yellow exterior and distinct sloping roofs, the Swedish Pavilion is architect Ferdinand Boberg’s only international exposition building still standing.

    Britain’s last remaining wild places

    Britain’s last remaining wild places

    The isles are famed for their wide Atlantic vistas, sandy beaches routinely named among the best in the world, sea-to-summit mountains, mystical standing stones, Gaelic culture and machair – a rare grassland habitat only found on the exposed west-facing shores of Scotland and Ireland.

    The Greatest Witch Movie Ever Made

    The Greatest Witch Movie Ever Made

    Modern witchcraft is often traced back to the mid-20th century, when a renewed interest in environmentalism, the founding of Wicca, the seeds of second-wave feminism, and a postwar world searching for spiritual guidance led people to beliefs outside mainstream or patriarchal “major” religions like Christianity.

    Garbasaurus

    Garbasaurus

    Hidden in Guelph’s Royal City Park, Garbasaurus is a six-foot-tall sculpture made entirely from garbage, commemorating the Ontario Public Interest Research Group’s (OPIRG) Speed River Cleanup.

    Who Were the Mysterious Moon-Eyed People of Appalachia?

    Who Were the Mysterious Moon-Eyed People of Appalachia?

    Tales of Madoc’s “Welsh Indians” had captured the imagination of jingoistic colonialists since Elizabethan times, because their purported existence meant that North America had been “claimed” for the English long before Columbus arrived in 1492.

    London Scottish House

    London Scottish House

    The exterior makes the London Scottish House look like an average office building, but the interior features a unique multi-story Victorian-era military drill hall that has been given a Grade II listing.

    Kurozuka (Black Tomb)

    Kurozuka (Black Tomb)

    Once upon a time, over a thousand years ago, a Buddhist monk named YĹ«kei was traveling across the Adachi-ga-hara plain when he sought a lodging for the night and found a cavern occupied by an old woman.

    ‘Multiplera SkĂĄne’

    ‘Multiplera SkĂĄne’

    In 2023, the unique art project Multiplera Skåne brought 28 life-sized, 3D-printed clay figures to a forest clearing in Sweden’s Hörby municipality.

    Minnetonka Cave

    Minnetonka Cave

    In Idaho’s Cache National Forest, near the Utah border, lies one of the most geologically fascinating caves in the United States.

    Drink Like a Founding Father

    Drink Like a Founding Father

    Both to make a dent in the fledgling nation’s lingering Revolutionary War debts and curb the drinking habits of its population, Hamilton suggested slapping a tax on domestically distilling spirits.

    Hope Slide

    Hope Slide

    Debris was continuing to fall across the road, and a truck driver who came up while the people were trying to free their stuck car realized this indicated further sliding was highly probable.