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Comedian, actor and musician Fred Armisen has just released a new album, 100 Sound Effects, and yes it’s exactly that — an old school sound effects album, but one only Fred Armisen could make. It also ...

Not long ago, Fred Armisen was reminiscing about the sound-effect LPs he used to stock at the Chicago record store where he worked in the Nineties. These vinyl platters contained all kinds of sounds, ...

When Helena Burton stopped taking her antidepressant medication she was gripped by a range of intense symptoms: her face went numb, her brain felt 'like it was being zapped with an electric current' ...

A mysterious cartoon lizard has become TikTok’s latest rising star. The green reptile, standing in a pitch-black room with a somewhat dazed smile, is repeatedly smacking a small lizard icon on a ...

After over two decades, travelers will no longer have to take their shoes off at TSA checkpoints in the nation's airports. Homeland Security confirmed a new policy on July 8 that "will allow ...

When Yami Safdie was just three years old, she loved to sing along to Disney princess movies. “I learned to talk and sing at the same time,” Safdie says with a gentle smile on her face. “Singing was ...

Cartoon cavemen teach us the effects of drugs, focusing on how they are consumed, their behavioral changes, and the types of dependence they create. Specifically, it highlights marijuana, noting its ...

Super Mario I've been playing Super Mario 64 for nearly 30 years and I somehow never noticed the 1/256 Easter egg when Mario jumps out of the water, which at one point in development created a ...

A Pulitzer Prize finalist in the cartoonist category, Pat Bagley has worked for The Salt Lake Tribune for more than 45 years. He is one of roughly a dozen cartoonists still working at a major ...

Trump warns Walmart to 'eat the tariffs' instead of raising prices US set to kill off tech that cuts car engines at red lights Tens of Thousands of Migrants Deported to Mexico Trump Burger officially ...