For nearly thirteen 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. Here are ten of my favorites from the more than 250 I wrote in 2024:
- Browse 64 Years of RadioShack Catalogs Free Online … and Revisit the History of American Consumer Electronics
- How Choose Your Own Adventure Books Became Beloved Among Generations of Readers
- How Olivetti Designed the First Personal Computer in History, the Programma 101 (1965)
- Learn the Korean Language with Hundreds of Episodes of Let’s Speak Korean Free Online
- Martin Mull (RIP) Satirically Interviews a Young Tom Waits on Fernwood 2 Night (1977)
- Revisit Episodes of Liquid Television, MTV’s 90s Showcase of Funny, Irreverent & Bizarre Animation
- RIP David Sanborn: See Him Play Alongside Miles Davis, Randy Newman, Sun Ra, Leonard Cohen and Others on His TV Show Night Music
- What It Takes to Pass “the Knowledge,” the “Insanely Hard” Exam to Become a London Taxicab Driver
- When a Drunken Charles Bukowski Walked Off the Prestigious French Talk Show Apostrophes (1978)
- Why the Short-Lived Calvin and Hobbes Is Still One of the Most Beloved & Influential Comic Strips
See also my ten favorite Open Culture posts of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.