Housewife Demonology
In the series’ penultimate episode, Mad Men’s depressive hausfrau Betty Draper trips in a stairwell on the Fairfield University campus and discovers she’s dying. Lung cancer at thirty-eight: unusual in…
FREE PALESTINE. STOP COP CITY.
In South Dekalb County, Georgia, the South River forest forms a canopy so lush and life-giving that it is referred to as one of the “four lungs of Atlanta.” This…
Novel Evil
Less than a century after it began, the popular lexicon of the Holocaust has become threadbare. It is so reduced to a few suggestive and uncontroversial narrative linchpins, trite and…
Two Months
If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long…
PACBI Now
This image is the current logo for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. When, in 1963, Samuel Beckett endorsed “Playwrights Against Apartheid,” a statement instructing…
What live theater can learn from Branson, Missouri
‘The Shepherd of the Hills’ has been running for 63 years and is the most performed outdoor drama in the U.S. Terra Fondriest/The Washington Post via Getty Images Joanna Dee…
The fight for 2% − how residuals became a sticking point for striking actors
The SAG-AFTRA actors union has been on strike since July 2023. Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Streaming disrupted the entire entertainment industry, upending the DVD-purchasing,…
Taylor Swift and the end of the Hollywood writers strike – a tale of two media narratives
Taylor Swift cheers as the Kansas City Chiefs play the Chicago Bears on Sept. 24, 2023. David Eulitt/Getty Images This fall, I’ve been starting my sociology classes by asking my…
Alienated Nerds
NFTs as gentrified fandom and the destruction of cultural autonomy in the digital age OK Fox is a self-described “old head scene queen” who’s been programming shows and organizing cultural…
American Sajaegi
THE first thing you need to understand is that, historically, there has been very little transparency in the record business. Until 1991, the sales data that trade publications like Billboard…