Death in Popular Culture

Death on the Streets of New Orleans, With A Man Walking Four Cute Dogs

I found Blaine Dorr walking in the sunshine on Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans with a…

10 years ago

Reaching Beyond The Veil – An Interview With Theremin Maestro Armen Ra

I am in a cheap motel in the middle of nowhere and click on a YouTube video. (more…)

10 years ago

7 Honest Questions About Death With Caitlin Doughty

For her "Ask a Mortician" video series Los Angeles mortician Caitlin Doughty has spoken candidly about topics like cat cremation…

10 years ago

The Act of Killing, and the 3 Most Frightening and Surreal Best Documentary Oscars From Years Past

The Oscars are coming up, and few who saw the film will likely be surprised that The Act of Killing…

10 years ago

Five Things I Learned From A Book On Child Reincarnation

A boy in western Louisiana believes he’s the reincarnation of a pilot shot down over Iwo Jima in World War…

10 years ago

Extreme Cold and the Perplexing Case of Paradoxical Undressing

Here in New Orleans temperatures bottomed out at 23°F this morning, sure that seems like nothing if you live in…

10 years ago

Seven Death-themed Museums to Visit in 2014

From a bulletproof hearse for the Pope to an exhibit on how to build a guillotine to the conjoined liver…

10 years ago

The Most Ridiculous Deaths of 2013

Ah, Christmas! Eggnog, sleigh riding, hams and finding out from relatives who died in the last year. 2013 saw men…

10 years ago

Home for the Holidays, and Your Aunt’s Corpse Has Been Rotting On The Sofa For a Year

This holiday season there have already been at least two cases in the news of people “living with corpses”. And…

10 years ago

Bloody Benders – The Forgotten Story of a Family of Pioneer Kansas Serial Killers

Last week I drove from New Orleans to Kansas to pick up a guitar my friend Jack Jacomo had left…

11 years ago