Eating at the world’s oldest McDonald’s is like entering a time capsule that was assembled sometime in the 1950s.Where Is The World’s Oldest McDonald’s?The Downey, California, location has been operating since 1953, nearly five years after the company was founded.According to Newsweek, the Downey McDonald’s was the third restaurant franchised by Richard and Maurice McDonald, who originally founded the chain.A sign on the building reminds burger-seekers that hamburgers cost 15 cents and French fries were only 12 cents when McDonald’s first opened at that location in 1953.Besides the food prices, not much has changed at the restaurant in the past 70 years.The…
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Bringing together serial killers and sharks—two of the horror genre’s apex predators—in a savage, deliciously executed spectacle, Sean Byrne’s “Dangerous Animals” (in theaters June 6, via IFC Films) boasts one of those high concepts so diabolically simple he couldn’t believe it hadn’t been done before. But what Byrne—the Australian filmmaker behind “The Loved Ones” and “The Devil’s Candy”—found most irresistible about the script by Nick Lepard was the way it avoided mischaracterizing sharks as serial man-eaters. “Dangerous Animals” takes a more scientifically sound approach to depicting its shark species and instead introduces another sort of oversized, bloodthirsty, and vengeful killer:…
Todd Purdum’s new book is a biography of Desi Arnaz, described in the subtitle as “The Man Who Invented Television.” Most people today associate him with the straight man for his then-wife, Lucille Ball, in the classic “I Love Lucy” sitcom, and the character he played, nightclub singer Ricky Ricardo. But Arnaz’s most enduring legacy was behind the scenes, in the technological and strategic innovations he insisted on, as well as the business he built. His Desilu production company ultimately took over one of Hollywood’s most prominent movie studios, RKO. Beyond “I Love Lucy,” Desi Arnaz was behind or played…
Ridley Scott is finished with the Alien franchise.After directing the eponymous 1979 sci-fi/horror flick, the 87-year-old filmmaker walked away from the Alien series until returning for the 2012 prequel Prometheus and its follow-up Alien: Covenant in 2017, though Scott now thinks he’s “done enough“ with the Alien franchise.Speaking with ScreenRant, he said: “A number of years after [Alien], I said, ‘I’m going to resurrect this,’ [and wrote] Prometheus from scratch – a blank sheet of paper. Damon Lindelof and I sat then hammered out Prometheus.“It was very present and very welcome. The audience really wanted more. I said, ‘It needs…
The Nigerian painter John Madu has become the first African artist to exhibit at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. “Van Gogh x John Madu: Paint Your Path,” which opened on May 30th, features 10 new paintings by Madu. These are placed in dialogue with seven works by Vincent van Gogh, selected by Madu, who drew inspiration from the life and work of the Dutch master. Madu’s paintings combine iconic images from Western art history with vignettes of daily life in West Africa, exploring the relationship between Western visual culture and a globalized world. This theme is particularly pertinent given…
Hauser & Wirth has announced its global representation of Spanish sculptor Cristina Iglesias. The gallery will include a new work, Entwined VI, by the artist in its booth at Art Basel later this month and will mount an exhibition for her at its London gallery in October. The representation deal means she will depart Marian Goodman Gallery, which has shown her for over two decades. Iglesias is the latest high-profile artist to leave Marian Goodman in the past few years, with the most recent one being William Kentridge, who also joined Hauser & Wirth last year. Related Articles Iglesias…
One of the oldest film festivals in the world, and the most prestigious such festival in Eastern and Central Europe, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) has announced the official selection for its upcoming 59th edition, to be held July 4-12 in the Czech Republic. 34 titles have been announced within this year’s official selection, encompassing not only the 12 world/international premieres that will compete for the Crystal Globe—Karlovy Vary’s main prize—but also films in the parallel Proxima competition for emerging and established auteurs whose works push the boundaries of contemporary cinema, plus a set of special screenings. Karel…
Up ahead is the Wheel of Fortune bonus puzzle answer today throughout the month of June 2025. We’ll reveal the bonus round solution first before sharing the answers for the standard puzzles and the toss-ups. For clarity, these solutions are for the weekday show hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Vanna White. That is, the Celebrity Wheel of Fortune answers can be found in other guides. Tonight’s episode will have three new contestants: Sam Smith, Sunny Nguyen, and Latanya Watkins. Here are all the solutions to the Wheel of Fortune puzzles for June 2. What are the Wheel of Fortune puzzle…
The Australian government recently extended the life of a liquified natural gas project near a 50,000-year-old rock art site in a remote area of the country, prompting an archaeologist to raise alarms about additional environmental damage. On May 28, Australia‘s Environment Minister Murray Watt conditionally approved a request by Woodside Energy to extend the life of its North West Shelf gas plant for four more decades until 2070. The conditional approval followed a six-year review “dogged by delays, appeals and backlash from green groups,” according to Reuters, and the project’s existing approval was set to expire in 2030. Related Articles The…
Science fiction encompasses so much of modern blockbuster cinema. So many big-budget movies these days are based on comic books, video games, and toys — and, in turn, so many comics, video games, and toys are rooted in sci-fi concepts like doctors who inject themselves with experimental serums or alien bounty hunters on alternate planets, or robots in disguise that transform into tractor-trailers or boomboxes.Comics and games and even action figures have inspired some good science-fiction movies, even one or two about robots that can turn into boomboxes. But we tend to not to expect Shakespeare from most of those sub-genres, and we tend…
