In the early days of archaeology, excavators used objects such as shoeboxes, beer crates, and even matchboxes to store artifacts. In some cases, museum workers have assembled collections of these old ...

Old matchbooks, menus, and bits of printed paper can look disposable, yet collectors chase certain examples as fiercely as rare coins or comics. The ten pieces below show how everyday ephemera, from ...

Matchbook, a sports betting exchange, is launching a prediction market platform in the UK as it prepares to compete with rivals Kalshi and Polymarket in the US. The British debut in January will be a ...

A filmmaker and novelist’s 50-word story about his grandmother won the top prize in the Library Shop SD’s ninth annual Matchbook Story Contest. Edmond Pang’s winning entry — a story short enough to ...

I have bought more Matchbox collectibles in 2025 than I have in my entire life. I set most of them free (this is the way). Obviously, some were nicer than others, and I've learned a few lessons. Do ...

The reader grapples with fascism and complicity through the eyes of a mute autistic girl being treated during the second world war As I started reading Alice Jolly’s new novel, whose narrator is a ...

Maybe it’s nostalgia — maybe it’s trendy aesthetics — or perhaps just old-school marketing, but restaurants across the country are bringing back the beloved matchbook. You know the ones. Sitting in a ...

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This year, Apple, Skydance, and Mattel's Matchbox movie finally shifted into drive three years after it was first announced to be in development. Expected to premiere sometime in 2026, the film is set ...

It began on a Tennessee highway with nothing more than a radio, a matchbox, and a spark of inspiration. What Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart sketched in the truck cab that night in 1946 became “The ...

Hannah Yasharoff is a food, entertainment, wellness, and lifestyle reporter. In addition to contributing to Eater DC, she has written for USA TODAY, Women’s Health, National Geographic, Well+Good, ...