Entertainment
Bright-pink Barbie CDs, American standards and physical media
There is a neon green CD storage box back in my childhood home in Indonesia. Some discs in the pile are more worn...
The changing legacy of Nirvana’s Unplugged set
Content warning: This article contains mentions of suicide.
In a dark studio in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City, on an autumn evening in 1993,...
James Callis and Edward Bluemel star in ‘Castlevania: Nocturne’
The Castlevania franchise sits at a strange crossroads in television culture. The first two seasons of the original “Castlevania” were landmark hits that...
Turn off your playlist and turn on the radio
When radio first came about, it was so influential that it became a defining factor of American mass culture and completely transformed the...
What ‘Valley of the Dolls’ taught me about writing women
The 1966 book “Valley of the Dolls” is perhaps less famous than its 1967 movie adaptation, but in both incarnations, the story is...