Popular Culture

The acquisition of the movie & TV star's artifacts is the latest for the pop culture museum, which hopes to open in 2024.

The newly-opened exhibit will be on view through October 8th of this year.

"This perceptive book is an insightful account, appealing to the aficionado and scholar alike." -- Todd Wright, Director of Jazz Studies, Hayes School of Music, Appalachian State University

Our guest will perform with his quintet tomorrow night (Thursday the 1st) at LowDown.

How will our evermore digital civilization persist beyond our lifetime? Audio- and videotapes demagnetize; CDs delaminate; Internet art works often link to websites that no longer exist; etc. This book argues that the vulnerability of new media in the art world points to a larger crisis for our social memory.

Here's an engrossing, foodie-friendly road trip along Route 66...with plenty of stops at diners, supper clubs, and roadside stands; the book also describes how and why such venues came and went over the years...and even offers kitchen-tested recipes from various historic eateries along the way.

Museum Confidential: Season 7, Episode 15.

"What if there's life out there? What would that mean for us? Ms. Green's book, alive with the color and drama of science fiction as well as scientific fact, helps us grasp that process of imagining -- its limits and its greater purpose." -- The Wall Street Journal

"A powerfully illuminating narrative of how things changed over the last century or so, both thorough and compelling." -- The Baffler

We chat with Abby Kurin, the recently named managing director of the OKPOP Foundation.