Culture Archive
Archives for October 2024
The aggressively, brutally companionless divorced guy aesthetic.
Cheese is yellow, milk is white. What’s going on here?
(And wait until you hear about Pesto the penguin.)
Tolkien himself couldn’t figure out the morality of orcs. Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prequel is trying anyway.
How the proudly weird beverage became the second-most popular soda in America.
The acclaimed writer takes on another intractable problem.
What if you made a musical version of My Cousin Vinny, but it was awful?
The Netflix reality dating show’s latest season is light on Hill staffers and politics, but thankfully heavy on dating monsters.
Francis Ford Coppola’s CGI ball of optimism, explained as best we can.
Everything we know about the growing case against the music mogul.
Plus short stories to dip into when life gets busy, and small-town longings.