On March 14, President Barack Obama welcomed the company of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton to a special […]
Category Archive: Popular culture
“The Reagan White House was one in which great expectations were allowed into play,” reflected Joan Didion in […]
Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy performance of “The Blacker the Berry” and “Alright”, with its #BlackLivesMatter theme and political overtones, struck […]
The Sound of Motor City: Ruin Porn, Popular Memory, and Protomartyr’s Vision of 21st Century Detroit
For the past couple years, one of the most vital sounds in music today has come out of […]
Over the past couple months or to be more accurate years, numerous commentators have bemoaned the apparent narcissism […]
“Creative people have always gravitated to certain kinds of communities such as the Left Bank in Paris or […]
Eight years ago, the avant-garde group/collective the Dirty Projectors released Rise Above, an album that bandleader David Longstreth […]
Joe Biden once famously said that Will and Grace “did more to educate the American public [about gay […]