Just to warn you: If you're a meat eater you will definitely be craving bbq after this short. Rodney Scott walks us through his family's bbq place, called Scott's BBQ and located in Hemmingway, SC. Th...

Here's an interesting visual comparison between Istanbul then and now. It's a promo video for the city, but as such, they have access to some cool and romantic images of the city in days of yore.

This video features an episode of "Drunk History" (which, if you haven't seen, the title pretty much sums up; and yet, it's a validly innovative approach to historic storytelling) with John C. Reilly ...

Rylee Jean Esben, an NYU student, made this excellent documentary on a now 80-year old burlesque dancer who is still doing her thing. Lots of pasties, g-strings, and good-hearted dancing. I thought th...

Penalosa - the former mayor of Bogota, Columbia - really turned the city around by drastically improving public transportation, making things much easier for bikes, and planting a lot of trees. Now he...

Here's an interview with Kennedy in his Florida home, in which he reflects upon his lifelong crusade against the Ku Klux Klan - and inequality in general - a pursuit he received threats for until the ...

One of David Greig's latest productions both takes place and is performed in pubs. This seems like a pretty logical connection to me.

Here's a look at the New York contingent of modern superheroes, as featured in the new HBO documentary. Three of them live in one apartment in Brooklyn.

The student protests in Chile have become quite creative and fun. I imagine European students watch in envy at this kissing rally.

An animator offers us a biographical sketch of his father. He was always called "Father, never just Dad." It is a lovely look at what can often be a strained relationship, that is, the relationship be...

Over the past few years the urban farm movement has been growing and gaining popularity. This short interview takes a look at Oakland-based urban farmer Novella Carpenter. Just a heads up there are a ...

Murat Gokmen takes a cinema verite approach to look at the oldest soccer team in Turkey (founded in 1903). As one of the supporters says, apart from his wife and his mother, "Besiktas is the love of m...

Here's a bit from Glover's traveling slideshow and film tour. The quality isn't great, but you're unlikely to see it anywhere else; Glover keeps up the vaudeville tradition by doing his best to make s...

Gehl, the architect and urban planner, uses this term to describe urban planning that looks good from a plane. But it doesn't necessarily work for the actual people that live in the city. Here, he app...

Kennedy, the great activist and "Klan buster," meets his old friend, Ramblin' Jack, and asks him to play "Hard Travelin'" (the Woody Guthrie song), so he can "rest in peace." Kennedy died on August 27...

A farewell to summer. One last dip into the pool of summer vacation before the coming shorter days and cool evenings. A celebration of warm summer days serenaded by a lament composed by Philip Glass.

This video goes into the natural connection between booze and theater - as demonstrated at the 2011 Edinburgh fringe festival - including Bryony Kimmings's bender-based performance and David Greig's t...

Here's a new documentary about real superheroes walking among us, here and now. This looks possibly quite dangerous - even legendary comic book creator Stan Lee seems to think so.

It's not only at Fox News that pundits sometimes go off the hinges. MSNBC's Ratigan is not bipartisan... he rails against everyone, leaving little time for his guests to speak, and making heads turn a...