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Claude spent the weekend fixing other models’ bad habitsCoyote vs. Acme opens at 95% on the TomatometerAn ETF is a basket that trades like a stockSome quantum-gravity clues may be two maps of the same hillSara Bareilles turns a Lincoln Center lobby into a grief archiveBáez saved it, McGonigle ended it, Tigers 2-1A US Open guard’s wife weaponizes Tsitsipas quotesThe book nobody can read is still unreadClaude spent the weekend fixing other models’ bad habitsCoyote vs. Acme opens at 95% on the TomatometerAn ETF is a basket that trades like a stockSome quantum-gravity clues may be two maps of the same hillSara Bareilles turns a Lincoln Center lobby into a grief archiveBáez saved it, McGonigle ended it, Tigers 2-1A US Open guard’s wife weaponizes Tsitsipas quotesThe book nobody can read is still unread

Culture and Curiosity

Culture and Curiosity

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Four-panel full-color culture comic with cartoon stand-ins never celebrity likenesses. Panel 1: cartoon pianist at a grand piano under a glowing golden arch labeled Culture Orfeo. Panel 2: trance portrait against stained-glass kaleidoscope underworld. Panel 3: lone silhouette walking a dark cavern toward a purple doorway. Panel 4: Oscilloscope Labs retro TV stamped Fall Coming Soon.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: FirstShowing.

Culture and Curiosity

Oscilloscope Labs drops U.S. trailer for Orfeo graphic-novel spin

FirstShowing Alex Billington, Sept. 18: Virgilio Villoresi; Dino Buzzati 1969 Poema a fumetti; Venice 2025; Luca Vergoni, Giulia Maenza, Aomi Muyock, Vinicio Marchioni; select U.S. theaters fall TBA. Cartoon only.

September 20, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color culture comic. Panel 1: Trailer #2 November 13 poster board. Panel 2: cartoon robbers filming on phones. Panel 3: cartoon FBI agent and coder. Panel 4: red-and-white popcorn bucket.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: FirstShowing.

Culture and Curiosity

Second trailer drops for David Leitch’s How to Rob a Bank

FirstShowing Alex Billington, Sept. 17: Amazon MGM; Hoult, Kravitz, Sawai, Slater, Davidson, Reilly; social-media heist crew vs FBI + engineer; theaters Nov 13, 2026. Cartoon only.

September 18, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color culture comic with cartoon stand-ins never celebrity likenesses. Panel 1: Mount Everest ridge under cold alpine light. Panel 2: two cartoon climber silhouettes on a 1953 summit route. Panel 3: Telluride and Toronto 2026 festival premiere board. Panel 4: Coming Soon marquee reading theaters October 9 then Apple TV October 16.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: FirstShowing.

Culture and Curiosity

Apple TV drops full trailer for Tenzing Everest summit feature

FirstShowing Alex Billington, Sept. 16: Jennifer Peedom narrative; Genden Phuntsok as Tenzing, Tom Hiddleston as Hillary; Telluride & Toronto 2026; theaters Oct 9, streaming Oct 16. Cartoon only.

September 17, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color culture comic with cartoon stand-ins never celebrity likenesses. Panel 1: cartoon closet door cracked open with eerie glow. Panel 2: dual cartoon mother and Other Mommy entity silhouettes facing a child stand-in. Panel 3: unsettling ball-pit motif from the trailer. Panel 4: Universal Coming Soon marquee reading Other Mommy October 9.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: FirstShowing.

Culture and Curiosity

Universal drops Trailer #2 for Rob Savage’s Other Mommy

FirstShowing, Sept. 15: Jessica Chastain dual-role closet entity; Oct. 9 theaters; Incidents Around the House (Malerman); Blumhouse Atomic Monster / James Wan. Cartoon stand-ins only.

September 16, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color culture comic with cartoon stand-ins never celebrity likenesses. Panel 1: cartoon Tokyo night street with a trench-coat detective stand-in. Panel 2: movie-theater screen marking a TIFF premiere for Bad Lieutenant Tokyo. Panel 3: cartoon sushi-bar beat. Panel 4: neon Coming Soon board for Bad Lieutenant Tokyo.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: FirstShowing.

Culture and Curiosity

Neon’s Japanese trailer for Takashi Miike’s Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo

FirstShowing, Sept. 14: Japanese trailer drop; TIFF premiere; standalone sequel vibe to Herzog’s Port of Call; gambling-addicted Tokyo cop + FBI search missing politician’s daughter. Cartoon figures only.

September 15, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color culture comic with cartoon cast stand-ins, never celebrity likenesses. Panel 1: Venice Sala Grande premiere marquee for Possible Love. Panel 2: a glowing standing-ovation clock near seven minutes. Panel 3: a Golden Lion competition badge beside a first-feature-since-Burning stamp. Panel 4: twin tickets reading Korean theaters September 23 and Netflix global November 6.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Resonate.

Culture and Curiosity

Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love draws a ~7-minute Venice ovation

Sala Grande world premiere, Golden Lion competition, Netflix-backed return since Burning (2018), with Korean theaters Sept. 23 and a global Netflix date Nov. 6.

September 8, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color music comic with a cartoon stand-in, not a celebrity portrait. Panel 1: cartoon singer opens a glowing B'Day 20 vault. Panel 2: tracklist grows from 13 to 31. Panel 3: Spanish-crossover sticky notes and a flower. Panel 4: remastered 4K camera and birthday cake Sep 3.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Hip-Hop Vibe.

Culture and Curiosity

Beyoncé opens the B’Day vault: 31 tracks for the 20th

Anniversary deluxe landed Sept. 3 on her birthday: remasters, vault cuts, Spanish-language collabs, and 4K video upgrades. Cartoon stand-in only.

September 4, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color pop-concert comic with a cartoon stand-in, not a celebrity portrait. Panel 1: a high-ponytail cartoon singer at London’s O2, last hurrah banner. Panel 2: a giant 200,000 tickets stamp. Panel 3: a theater curtain labeled acting next. Panel 4: a quiet dressing-room with a step back from visibility sign.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: BBC News, Sept. 1, 2026.

Culture and Curiosity

Ariana Grande closes Eternal Sunshine at London’s O2

BBC, Sept. 1: the tour’s last hurrah packed the arena after 200,000 tickets across London dates; she told the crowd she is stepping back from that kind of visibility and heading into acting.

September 2, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel full-color museum comic with a stylized cartoon brunette, not a photoreal portrait. Panel 1: Grammy Museum doors and a yellow exhibit banner. Panel 2: a cardboard operating room with two cute beating felt hearts. Panel 3: a nurse costume, storyboards, and hand-stitched packaging in a case. Panel 4: a sold-out Sept. 1 stage and a music-education jar.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Time Out Los Angeles, Aug. 31, 2026.

Culture and Curiosity

Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘The Cure’ takes over the Grammy Museum

Time Out Los Angeles: a cardboard operating room, felt hearts, and the nurse costume from the video open Sept. 2, after a sold-out Sept. 1 launch for music education.

September 1, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel culture comic: a Good Grief album on a Steinway in a theater lobby, walls of handwritten stories, a player piano going by itself, Sara Bareilles at the keys on Sunday afternoon.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Voyage New York, Aug. 29, 2026.

Culture and Curiosity

Sara Bareilles turns a Lincoln Center lobby into a grief archive

Good Grief, her first studio album in seven years, lands with a free three-day installation that closes this afternoon at the Vivian Beaumont.

August 30, 2026 at 7:00 AM PDT

Four-panel culture comic: a producer with ballet slippers and a Mere Mortals album, Edinburgh festival lights, a woman opening a jar of glowing questions, a violin beside a track called Nowhere to Land.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: Pitchfork, Aug. 28, 2026.

Culture and Curiosity

Floating Points put Pandora on a ballet, then on an album

Mere Mortals, Sam Shepherd’s San Francisco Ballet score, had its European premiere Friday at the Edinburgh International Festival and is out on Deutsche Grammophon.

August 29, 2026 at 7:13 AM PDT

Four-panel culture comic: a director holding a script, a pianist at a silent piano beside an empty bass stool, a few bars of Waltz for Debby, a title card that reads Everybody Digs Bill Evans.

Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: The Guardian, Aug. 28, 2026.

Culture and Curiosity

When the music stops: a Bill Evans film that barely plays the hits

Grant Gee’s narrative feature Everybody Digs Bill Evans sits in 1961, after the bass chair went empty, and treats silence as the subject.

August 29, 2026 at 7:12 AM PDT

Four-panel comic. An uncle finds shards in a dumpster; Pilver tells him to get them out; a high school lab catalogs 1,000 sherds; boxes unload at the Mexican consulate.

Original comic, Culture desk. News: NPR Illinois / All Things Considered, Aug. 21, 2026.

Culture and Curiosity

1,000 Mexican artifacts found in a dumpster are going home

Connecticut archaeologist and high school teacher Jeremy Pilver told NPR that more than 1,000 pre-Hispanic Mexican objects are being returned to Mexico. His wife’s uncle, Matthew Pioggia, spotted pieces in a western Massachusetts dumpster about two and a half years earlier, spent about four hours pulling them out, and later delivered roughly 50 boxes. Students spent nearly two years cleaning and cataloging. Paperwork showed a loan from Mexico’s National Museum of Archaeology about 55 years earlier. Pilver delivered the boxes to a Mexican consulate.

August 22, 2026 at 4:10 PM PDT

Four-panel comic. A tourist squints at red cliff paintings; a lab IDs hematite, lime, and blood; an ancient painter mixes binder; a skeptic holds three sample chips.

Original comic, Culture desk. News: The Art Newspaper, Aug. 18, 2026.

Culture and Curiosity

Huashan rock paintings stayed red for 2,000 years because the paint included blood

Shandong University researchers led by Meng Wu say the bright red Huashan rock paintings in Guangxi’s Zuojiang River Valley stayed vivid for about two millennia because the paint included blood. Unesco-listed cliff murals (roughly fifth century BC to second century AD) sit on limestone in a hot, humid monsoon climate. The team sampled fragments from three of more than 80 sites. Red clay rich in nano-hematite was the pigment, with a lime-and-blood mortar as binder. Slated for the Journal of Archaeological Science. An outside specialist said the childbirth-blood claim is the weakest part.

August 22, 2026 at 4:00 PM PDT