For nearly a dozen years now, I’ve written a post every weekday at Open Culture, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, architecture, television, radio, or language. The total comes to more than 3,000 so far, and here are ten of my favorites from the more than 250 I wrote in 2023:
- The Surprisingly Long History of Auto-Tune, the Vocal-Processing Technology Music Critics Love to Hate
- Jancis Robinson’s Wine Course: Explore the TV Series That Introduced the Wines of the World (1995)
- Discover The Plastics, the Influential Japanese New Wave Band from the 1980s
- RIP Norman Lear: Watch Full Episodes of His Daring 70s Sitcoms, Including All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, and More
- David Byrne Explains How the “Big Suit” He Wore in Stop Making Sense Was Inspired by Japanese Kabuki Theatre
- Wes Anderson Re-Creates The Truman Show, Armageddon & Out of Sight as Stage Plays Performed by the Cast of Rushmore (1999)
- An Introduction to Vince Guaraldi, the Jazz Composer Who Created the Best Christmas Album Ever, A Charlie Brown Christmas
- Jerry Garcia Explains How Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Changed His Life (1995)
- Revisit Turn-On, the Innovative TV Show That Got Canceled Right in the Middle of Its First Episode (1969)
- What Is Postmodern Architecture?: An Introduction in Three Videos
See also my ten favorite Open Culture posts of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.