New biography of Jerry Lewis look-alike Sammy Petrillo, with a Drew Friedman cover

Many a foreigner has visited England and found it an unexpectedly surreal place. Some of that effect has to do with encountering familiar icons — Big Ben, doub…

In the late 1980s, Dave Blair was at UC Santa Cruz making fractal art with video cameras and monitors. Decades later, he's still at it, and his work is mind-be…

There was a time when you could just go out and buy an Enigma machine. In the early nineteen-twenties, any organization with a need to keep its communications…

In the late 1980s, Dave Blair was at UC Santa Cruz making fractal art with video cameras and monitors. Decades later, he's still at it, and his work is mind-be…

My RTX 3090 is at a board-level repair shop, and I'm not going to spend the kind of money a modern, already two-year-old video card costs to replace it if it's…

For over a hundred years, Denali's huskies have patrolled 1, 000s of miles of wilderness. Hauling supplies through desperate conditions, these dogs are governm…