Those were the famous words of William F. Buckley Jr., explaining the role of conservatives in culture and the mission of ...

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Every Thanksgiving when I was growing up, my family held a Wacky Tacky Talent Show so needlessly competitive that at least one kid inevitably cried. And on the same special tablecloth we used every ...

Shaggy performed on the famed Jennie-O Big Turkey float this year, surrounded by glittering gold and green. The float in question spans a very impressive 36 feet long and 24 feet high. Crowning the ...

As we near the end of the show "Stranger Things," it’s worth wondering why the retro-nerdy, satanic panic, sci-fi/horror mashup has such a huge appeal. When the show debuted in 2016, my Generation X ...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Young people gaze up at large photographs of Mobutu Sese Seko, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) national museum. A charismatic and outrageously ...

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. As strange as the videos are, there ...

If you’re looking for timely cultural criticism, you might more easily find it on YouTube than through a digital or print article. “When I was first writing blogs, the only people that would see those ...

Think back to a fond time and place in your childhood — perhaps a stroll with a parent along a waved-washed beach. The memory is a happy (and likely idealized) one, but still tinged with the ...

A panel moderated by Home Accents Today editor-in-chief Allison Zisko during the recent High Point Market explored how elements like cultural memory, sensory details and personal stories are ...

Where would I eat first? The question gnawed at me as the thrill of becoming The Washington Post’s new food critic settled in. A few names turned into a sprawling spreadsheet of restaurants, a ...

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