pop culture
A local soda is making a comeback in Turkey
Gazoz is an old-school, hyper-local soda that’s been ubiquitous in Turkey since it was invented more than a century ago. Every town has a signature brand, often incorporating local flavors like pine, lavender, or sweet almond. The World’s Durrie Bouscaren reports from southern Turkey on why this beloved drink is having a moment.
Special Guest: Cintra Wilson
Cintra Wilson is a playwright and performer with a penchant for pop culture. She’s a regular contributor to Salon, where her annual scathing review of the Oscars, is a must-read each year. She’s the author of A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as Grotesque Crippling Disease, Other Cultural Revelations, and Colors Insulting to Nature.
Murakami
Teenagers and young adults in this country are embracing Japanese art and pop culture like never before. An exhibition at the Japan Society in New York has filled the museum with colorful toys, strange dolls and paintings of schoolgirls. It’s all very cute, but it doesn’t take long to sense some dark undercurrents below all […]