texas Artist lovingly paints Texas fast food joints in Kinkade-esque scenery Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutant Modernist homes get a Thomas Kinkade-style makeover Rusty Blazenhoff

art Thomas Kinkade painting of toilet paper available as puzzle and print for charity David Pescovitz

tabloids Bill Clinton’s party on Epstein’s Lolita Express jet, Two Meghans demand millions, and a very Merry Christmas, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

tabloids Brad Pitt’s brush with death, Julia Roberts quitting Hollywood, and Christmas kittens, in this week’s dubious ad-packed tabloids Peter Sheridan

media Rogue planet hurtling toward a collision with Earth and other tabloid stunners Peter Sheridan

guily pleasures Let's put the guilt back in guilty pleasures Mark Dery

art Dale Chihuly at VMFA, and photography and accessibility of art Xeni Jardin