Jay Gatsby is an American icon. Every depiction of him in popular culture is perfectly lit, shot, and edited – just like the photographs that’ll win theGreater Than Gatsby Annual Scholarship! This scholarship program is targeted toward artistic-minded students, regardless of GPA, with dreams t...
After graduate school, I learned more about Dylan who has absorbed and re-purposed American culture. He’s the artist who has immersed himself in the early Delta blues singers (“Blind Willie McTell”). He’s the artist that has told the myth of himself in print (Chronicles, Volume One)...
CultureWeirdDiverse dining options, unique outdoor experiences and unexpected attractions make Portland one of a kind. Credit: Una the Mermaid LLCIn Portland, being dubbed “weird” is never an insult. Locals delight in enjoying the pleasantly unexpected, whether it be watching adults zoom down an...
Nothing cemented Snoop’s ascent to all-American everyman status more than last summer’s wall-to-wall Snoopathon that was the 2024 Paris Olympics. His official gig was as a special correspondent for NBC, but in between carrying the Olympic torch through the streets of Saint-...
So please enjoy this local list of local things to do from Dec. 26 through 30 to get you through the holiday haze. 🥁BYOD for a BPL Kwanzaa jam.Translation: Bring your own drum. The week-long celebration of African-American culture kicks off Dec. 26, and the Roxbury BPL branch is ...
Weird Al and his criminally under-heralded band have to worry about sounding like The Collective Whole of 35 Years of American Pop Culture, plus Don McLean and Bob Dylan sometimes. There’s being diverse and then there’s being profoundly insane: I’ve never been in a band, but I imagine...
There are some strangely specific parts of American culture that are super popular in foreign countries. It's understandable why some ...
Uff da is a general purpose expression of surprise, astonishment, exhaustion, relief and sometimes dismay. It can therefore be a substitute for common obscenities. Within Scandinavian-American culture, Uff da frequently translates to: "I am overwhelmed", somewhat similar to the Yiddish phrase oy ve...
They have better things to do. They play and frolic, subdue and release. After some years, one of the children — a young girl; let's call her Roma — notices that she and all the others have been growing in size, just like all living things in the forest do. That leads her to ...
Things get wet when they're slippery, so your body's way of adapting to long periods of time under water is turning your finger pads into little prune pads. According to theScientific American, that weird prune-ness is "optimized for providing a drainage network that improved grip." ...