A 17-Year-Old Rented a Theater to Show His Alien Movie. Sixty-Two Years Later, He’s Still Making Them. In March 1964, a 17-year-old Steven Spielberg paid $400 to rent the Phoenix Little Theatre for one night and sold 500 tickets at a dollar each to screen Firelight, a feature-length film he wrote and directed himself. Its […]
No Roads Lead to Churchill There is exactly one way to reach Churchill, Manitoba by land: a 1,700-kilometre train journey from Winnipeg that takes roughly 45 hours, crossing boreal forest, prairie farmland and Arctic tundra before terminating at the shore of Hudson Bay. No highway connects Churchill to the rest of Canada. For the roughly […]
The Crisis That Was Supposed to Break the Oil Market On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched coordinated airstrikes on Iran under Operation Epic Fury, targeting nuclear sites, military infrastructure and senior leadership; Iran’s Supreme Leader was among those killed. Iran’s response arrived within days: the Revolutionary Guard Corps began attacking and […]
In July 2026, the UK government announced a policy proposal requiring major social media platforms — including Instagram, TikTok and YouTube — to apply a default overnight usage restriction to users aged 16 and 17, alongside a separate, more restrictive ban on social media access for children under 16 due to take effect in 2027. […]