Massive Auction of Vintage Cartoon Stills

Heritage’s collection includes cels from 1960s and 70s Saturday-morning classics like Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and Schoolhouse Rock, and some of the pieces—like the Challenge of the SuperFriends title cel—are expected to bring upwards of $2,500.

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Oh! You Kid!

If we listen closely to “I Love, I Love, I Love My Wife—But Oh! You Kid!” we may hear a surprising lesson: that the culture-quaking shocks, the salaciousness and transgression we associate with blues and jazz and rock and hip-hop, first arrived in American pop many years earlier.

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A Disorienting Survey of Suburban Sprawl, from Dubai to L.A.

There’s something about the suburbs that seems to utterly repel and fascinate artists. The postwar burb-boom of Burbank, California, for example, was Tim Burton’s inspiration for the rows and rows of identical homes in Edward Scissorhands, while the Smashing Pumpkins offered a much less gracious view in their video for “1979,” which depicted the destructive teen-age boredom they tend to instill.

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