pop culture

Cintra Wilson is a playwright and performer with a penchant for pop culture. She’s a regular contributor to Salon, where her annual scathing review of the Oscars, is a must-read each year. She’s the author of A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as Grotesque Crippling Disease, Other Cultural Revelations, and Colors Insulting to Nature.

Teenagers and young adults in this country are embracing Japanese art and pop culture like never before. An exhibition at the Japan Society in New York has filled the museum with colorful toys, strange dolls and paintings of schoolgirls. It’s all very cute, but it doesn’t take long to sense some dark undercurrents below all […]

Jack Handey worries that he’s going to leave behind just another ho-hum skeleton buried in the ground. He offers a few tips on how to make your skeleton live up to its reputation.