The documentary A Life Illuminated will make its Washington, D.C., premiere on March 19, the first night of the D.C. Environmental Film Festival, where Mongabay is a media partner. The film traces the ...

Congregation Beth Israel is the oldest traditional Orthodox shul in Los Angeles, which was dedicated in 1902 and originally located in the Bunker Hill District in Downtown LA.

Most people wouldn’t put “barbed wire” and “fascinating” in the same sentence unless they were being sarcastic or had recently hit their head. Yet here we are, talking about the Devil’s Rope Museum in ...

The history of technology is written not just in laboratories and corporate campuses, but in the moments when the people who built ...

I don't understand how someone can think 120 minutes is the same thing as an hour and 20 minutes.

Khaby Lame’s story reads like a modern-day myth. Not because it’s hard to believe, but because it mirrors the core narratives of digital modernity. It starts with hardship, go ...

Leave it to SXSW to keep Austin weird. The 2026 edition of the Texas-based film festival is once again chock-a-block with dark comedies, gonzo horror films and prestige pictures t ...