Culture Archive
Archives for November 2014
How our age, gender, race, and other demographic factors predict which policies we support.
It’s all about conflict and exposition.
Taylor Swift pulled all of her songs from streaming services this week. Survive the weekend with these songs
Finally, a show about a normal girl and her space-age puppycat.
This story is bigger than just this episode. It touches on two simultaneous debates that have swirled around Dunham and her work since her HBO show premiered in 2012.
The series’ abrupt shift to quality in its fifth season has been fun — if a bit baffling. Here are 5 theories for why it happened.
Taylor Swift’s 1989 is a great pop album. It is also accidentally a perfect soundtrack for 1980’s workout routine tapes.
The Theory of Everything, James Marsh’s biopic about the indomitable Stephen Hawking, isn’t a movie concerned with the scientist’s contributions to theoretical physics or cosmology.
Either you haven’t heard of the true-crime podcast, or you’re obsessed with it. There’s little in between.
Sequels! Hollywood has sequels!
The Chuck Lorre sitcom is telling a surprisingly insightful story about addiction and money.
John Oliver DESTROYS confusion over British English...but fails to DESTROY the UK’s super-restrictive immigration policy.
They did not go with Star Wars: Guardians of the Galaxy in the Age of Ultron.
Postnord, the postal company run by the Danish and Swedish governments, is releasing limited edition stamps with major pop personalities like Robyn and Max Martin on January 15.
Who is Justin Bieber? Who is Selena Gomez? Why does anyone care?!