'Obex' boots up an early moment of computer escapism with nightmarish panache

A concentrated labor of love for filmmaker Albert Birney, the low-budget indie bears the paranoid black-and-white sheen of ...
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Goodbye to cell phones in class in New Jersey—a new law signed by Phil Murphy prohibits their use from kindergarten through high school

Those of us who lived through the transition to cell phones while in high school could clearly see who had a BlackBerry in ...
Ever After in the Woods

This Middle-Of-Nowhere Florida Restaurant Secretly Serves The State’s Best Steaks

Drive Florida backroads to The Yearling in Hawthorne for surprisingly great steaks, Old Florida classics, and a Cross Creek ...
Constative on MSN

Voices from the trail: Appalachian folklore & myth

A dense green forest surrounds the thin corridors of dark brown earth that make up the Appalachian Trail system. The trees ...
The Courier

Heatwave conditions didn’t deter Boggabri residents attending celebrations

Boggabri Public School was the host venue with the hall and fences decorated with Australian flag bunting, Australia Day ...
Arizona Daily Star

‘Fffaaaro, fffaaaro’: How do cicadas make their signature sound so eerie and amazingly loud?

WHEATON, Ill. — The most noticeable part of the cicada invasion blanketing the central United States is the sound — an eerie, amazingly loud song that gets in a person's ears and won't let much else ...
The Daily Progress

‘Fffaaaro, fffaaaro’: How do cicadas make their signature sound so eerie and amazingly loud?

WHEATON, Ill. — The most noticeable part of the cicada invasion blanketing the central United States is the sound — an eerie, amazingly loud song that gets in a person's ears and won't let much else ...
Boing Boing on MSN

Animevox: Retro anime sound effect generator

Animevox is a gorgeous sound effect generator that produces downloadable samples in a retro anime style. There are sliders to ...

Epidemic Sound updates its AI-powered soundtracking Assistant and creative collaborator to accelerate human creativity

Epidemic Sound's creative collaborator, Assistant, makes the process of finding the perfect music and sound effects for content faster and more intuitive -- Assistant has been updated to include ...

A family’s past and present intermingle in Germany’s eerie, elliptical ‘Sound of Falling’

Directed by Mascha Schilinski, the movie accommodates four generations of German women, all occupying the same house but in ...
Stereogum

Denzel Curry Announces New Project The Scythe: Hear “Lit Effect” (Feat. Bktherula & Lazer Dim 700)

SoundCloud rap veteran Denzel Curry has a whole new crew. Today, Curry has a couple of big announcements. One of them is the ...
AV Club

Every #1 hit song from 2015 ranked worst to best

We’ve reached the finale of this year’s #1 hits ranking series, and we’re ending on one of the strongest Top 5s of the whole event. It helps that I lived through all of these songs dominating radio ...