Author: Savannah Tanbusch

Savannah is a freelance journalist from Baltimore. She's really into games about lawyers and detectives, and sometimes refers to herself as \the man
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Larger-than-life opera house photographs overwhelm the senses

If you’ve ever wanted to see the grandeur of an opera house in awe-inspiring, larger-than-life color and detail, New York City-based photographer David Leventi’s photographs will have you reeling. Leventi captured the inside of famous, virtually empty opera houses, from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City to the Palais Garnier in Paris (the inspiration behind Phantom of the Opera). Leventi allows his audience to explore places they may never have the chance to see, offering every perk of looking at it with their own eyes. audiences can explore places they may never have the chance to see According to…
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Don’t know how tedious passing a bill can be? Experience it with this satirical quiz

Growing up in a city crawling with politically questionable leaders and spending most of my adulthood in America’s capital has clearly had some kind of positive affect on me. I became a Congresswoman and successfully passed a bill (on my third try!), all by being a completely passive wet noodle. Clickhole has created a new quiz weighing how well you would do as a member of Congress. I ended up in jail, twice, for murder. Apparently, my IP address has been given to the NSA, which is cool since I’ve always wanted to be an agent. It’s completely reminiscent of…
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The world’s first "hologram protest" is here, and kinda creepy

Somewhere in the future of the mid-1980s, rockstar journalist Edison Carter had his memories captured into a computer software imaging device. From this, Max Headroom was born. Max would travel through television sets, gathering information to expose the wrongdoings of major news corporations. However, Max was just a fictionalization, made out of hours of make-up caked onto Matt Frewer’s face, from a “cutting-edge” British cyberpunk show. Today, we have a computer-generated reality. The Spanish government recently passed a law restricting citizens’ rights to protest. The new law, ley de seguridad ciudadana, allows citizens to be fined up to $31,000 for…