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‘We Deserve So Much More Than Police, Prisons, and Jails’: Scalawag Takes On Emmy-Winning Television

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 15, 2022October 21, 2022

We recommend these incisive essays on Abbott Elementary, The White Lotus, and The Dropout in Scalawag’s series on pop culture and justice.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Kate Bush, “Running Up That Hill,” and the End of Music Charts As We Knew Them

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 10, 2022October 19, 2022

Thanks to season four of Stranger Things, Kate Bush’s song, “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” has topped the charts, 37 years after its release. Nate Rogers takes a look at how this happened, and what it means for the music industry, and especially older, legacy acts. Drenched in gated reverb and woozy […]

Posted inEditor's Pick

Every Language Everywhere All at Once

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 8, 2022October 19, 2022

As our choices for films and television shows made around the world increase in the streaming era, so do the challenges of translation. Rafael Motamayor explores the art — and complicated process — of translating foreign content for international viewers. We are far removed from the days of flagrant cultural erasure through dubbing — Pokémon […]

Posted inEditor's Pick

Ben Stiller Sees the World Differently Now

by Peter Rubin February 23, 2022January 25, 2023

“It was a pretty amazing run. And there was a clarity to it all. He worked hard, pursued satisfying projects, and repeated the things that worked. He made Ben Stiller movies. He was always ascending. Then, starting with the cancer, he got the crap pounded out of him for a few years. His career, his […]

A man dressed as an ugly sister from the show Cinderella
Posted inFeature

The Big, Bonkers, British, Christmas Pantomime

by Carolyn Wells December 15, 2021October 20, 2022

Oh, yes I did! An attempt to explain the bizarre tradition of the British Christmas pantomime.

Posted inEditor's Pick

What Mr. Miyagi Taught Me About Anti-Asian Racism in America

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 23, 2021October 19, 2022

In The Karate Kid franchise, writes Beth Nguyen, “Mr. Miyagi is the perpetual foreigner who exists to serve the whiteness that surrounds him.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Il Maestro

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 17, 2021October 19, 2022

Martin Scorsese on “content,” the films of Federico Fellini, and the art of cinema.

Posted inQuotes

The Streaming Service of the Moment

by Carolyn Wells April 23, 2020October 17, 2022

“So yes, I admit it. I subscribed to Disney+ on the pretext of occupying my kids, but of course – of course – I actually bought it for myself.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

The World’s Tallest Dwarf

by Sara Fredman November 8, 2019January 13, 2023

Late capitalism gets an antihero show.

Posted inArts & Culture, Story

On Flooding: Drowning the Culture in Sameness

by Soraya Roberts March 29, 2019October 19, 2022

Flooding (v.): Unleashing a mass torrent of the same stories by the same storytellers at the same time, making it almost impossible for anyone but the same select few to rise to the surface.

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