Is anyone surprised that Game of Thrones has taken over as a worldwide phenomenon? The Mumbai Dhol Tasha cover of the Game of Thrones theme during the Indian holiday Ganesh Visarjan has us wanting more. Dhol is a broad term term for a double headed drum used throughout the Indian subcontinent. Dhol drums are most prominent in bhangra music, which American audiences would recognize from Bollywood films. Ganesh Chaturthi is a ten-day festival celebrating the Hindu god Ganesha. On the tenth day, Ganesh Visarjan, idols of Ganesha are carried in public processions with music and chanting before being immersed in …
Back in May 2015, Chris Martin and the rest of Coldplay got together and created ‘Game of Thrones: A Musical,’ a piece of musical theatre that I would pay good money to see live, on or off Broadway. The made-for-YouTube masterpiece, currently at 27 million+ views, benefitted Red Nose Day, a fundraising campaign started by Comic Relief to end child poverty. “This is the best idea we’ve ever had,” said Martin. I agree, though some of the cast didn’t. But really, when has a play, show, or movie needed a positive review from critics to become a cult classic? Narrated …
George R. R. Martin has known the overarching plot of A Song of Ice and Fire since 1993, when he first outlined a trilogy that has since expanded into seven books (not that we’re complaining). In early 2015, British bookseller Waterstones tweeted then deleted three photos of Martin’s original proposal which detailed who Martin planned to survive to the end of the series, confirmed legitimate by Harper Collins. Image Via Business Insider Five central characters will make it through all three volumes, however, growing from children to adults and changing the world and themselves in the process. In a …
A library in Peabody, Massachusetts recently reached out via Facebook to remind library-goers that Chuck E. Cheese currency can not be used to pay late fees or fines. Section 31 U.S.C. 5103 of the United States Coinage Act of 1965 currently defines legal tender as United States coins and currency, including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks. The United States Department of Treasury agrees with the Peabody Institute Library that “foreign gold or silver coins are not legal tender for debts.” This comes as a huge shock and disappointment to me, as I was hoping to unload …
Over a decade after his death, only a handful of people have been allowed inside Owl Farm’s War Room, the basement where Hunter S. Thompson would spend up to sixteen hours a day writing. Anita Thompson, Thompson’s widow, plans to turn the couple’s Colorado home into a museum and artist’s retreat within the next two years. Even after Johnny Depp, a close friend of the family, bought 800 boxes of archives, the War Room is a crowded shrine to Thompson’s creative process. Manuscripts, letters, photos, gum wrappers, and beer cans have all stood the test of time. Twelve years …
