Jamie Hayes articles

Even if you haven’t heard of Phil Tippet, you’ve almost definitely seen his work. The Imperial Walkers in The Empire Strikes Back. ED-209 from Robocop. The dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. Before the days of CGI, if you wanted the best visual effects, you went to Phil Tippett.

Francisco Goya went from the darling of the Spanish art world to a mad hermit, creating his nightmarish “Black Paintings” on the walls of his fortress of solitude.

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

The violent story of Altamont and the end of the 60s has to start at the peaceful Woodstock, on the other side of the continent.

Alexander the Great was a fearless warrior—but few know about the campaign that nearly brought him to his knees and left him a paranoid shell of a man.

When did WWII end? Word War II was devastating, and the end of the war was celebrated around the world. But when did WWII really end?

There’s one James Joyce book that nobody claims to have read: Finnegans Wake. It is, without question, the most difficult book in the English language.

There's a secret hiding underneath Seattle's Pioneer Square. A remnant of another time, left to crumble to dust. A city beneath the city...

A few nights before he died, Edgar Allan Poe was found wandering the streets in a fugue state. As he was dying, he kept shouting one word.