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In this month’s Low Culture podcast John and Luke are grasping their fuelling nozzles, lubing up the big end, and casting their eyes over the smooth chrome body of David Cronenberg’s 1996 film Crash, ...
1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times, by Ross Benes, University Press of Kansas, 296 pages, $32.99 In 1982, Prince first sang that he planned to party ...
Low Culture Essay Low Culture Essay: Jonn Elledge on The Good Life In April's essay, Jonn Elledge explains why everything you thought you knew about the popular self-sufficiency sitcom, first ...
Despite its cycling culture, Tokyo ranks surprisingly low in global bike-friendly city lists. Why? From narrow sidewalks to ...
How the Low Culture of 1999 Predicted Modern America On this episode of American Prestige, Ross Benes on the year that laid the groundwork for life as we know it.
When Trump announced his intentions to seek the presidency on Larry King Live in 1999, the distinction between high and low culture collapsed.
Adam Weiner wraps tefillin in his music video for the Low Cut Connie song "King of the Jews." (Bob Sweeney) ...
NPR's A Martinez talks with Denise Sandoval, professor of Chicana and Chicano studies at California State University, Northridge, about how lowrider culture has endured and spread.
Alex Zamalin, professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, joins The Excerpt to explore how counterculture becomes the culture.
When Trump announced his intentions to seek the presidency on Larry King Live in 1999, the distinction between high and low culture collapsed.