David Bottrill was sitting in Maynard James Keenan's apartment with the Tool singer's cat on his lap when Maynard unleashed a blood-curdling scream. Except it didn't stop. On and on it went: 5, 10, 25 ...

This video explores how Tool created “Lateralus,” a progressive metal masterpiece built around mathematical concepts like the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio. It highlights the song’s ...

Derrick Niederman drops a heavy-duty Sunday crossword on us. By Caitlin Lovinger Jump to: Tricky Clues | Today’s Theme SUNDAY PUZZLE — Will Shortz, in his print introduction to this grid, writes: ...

The former picture researcher Caroline Chapman provides a wealth of contextual information about key historic paintings in her new publication Painted Mysteries: Interpreting Great Paintings. The ...

Even if you’re not a full-blown grammar nerd, you’ll find the origins of these words that changed meaning over time completely fascinating The English language is alive—and like any living thing, it ...

May 15 was the 13th anniversary of Tool’s Lateralus, and in a retrospective last week in The AV Club, writer Jason Heller explained that it arrived at a weird time, this number-one album and the ...

Which is the better Tool album - Aenima or Lateralus? That's the debate at the center of this week's Chuck's Fight Club on the Loudwire Nights radio show? These two heavy heavyweights will duke it out ...

Cooked: This word has raced out of the kitchen and into teenagers' vocabulary. What does it mean? That depends. Urban Dictionary states that “cooked” can mean someone is exhausted, high on marijuana ...