The Ralph Foster Museum on the campus of the College of the Ozarks, grew from its humble beginnings in the 1920s to become one of the Midwest’s foremost institutions of historical preservation. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe primary focus of the Ralph Foster Museum today is to collect, preserve, interpret, and…
Not so long ago, villagers across Turkey practiced an ancient tradition of horsemanship that stretches back centuries, to the days of the Mongol Empire. Work horses spent three seasons on the farm, pulling plows in the spring and carts laden with hay, corn, and other produce through summer and fall, before villagers turned them loose…
The debate regarding the actual name of this castle began during the 17th-century. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonCastell Dinas Bran is sometimes wrongly translated as “The City of Crows” because the word dinas in modern Welsh means “city,” while in Middle Welsh it means a defended enclosure. Brân meanwhile is Welsh for “crow,” suggesting that the castle’s…
Today, my friends, the Unloved is seven years old. I decided to celebrate with a big action movie that happens to be set in 2020 and be about the last survivors of the apocalypse. Couldn’t possibly be a little relevant or upsetting, could it? Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAnyway, I just…
Visitors to the town of Gadheim will find a very unique geographical marker known as the center of the European Union. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonUnlike many central points located across various geographical regions, the honor of being the center of the EU is not very long-lived, as it shifts every…
On September 10, 1579, Doña María de Guzmán, a young, beautiful, and rich widow founded this monastery which only accepted young women from upper-class Spanish families. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAt the time, it was a tradition for the second daughter of a wealthy family to enter a life of service…
Crossing the Streams is our monthly look at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month, and this time we’re checking out the new Netflix arrivals for December 2020. This month’s titles include new films directed by David Fincher and George Clooney, loads of new holiday originals, and more! Keep reading to see…