Back in 2016 we published a round-up of pop culture comfort food during a time when we were feeling collectively vulnerable and unsure about the…
Top Picks The Wild Ramp Project is looking for longform culture writing about Chicago January 12, 2021 Like the wild ramps that Chicago is named…
by Miranda Ruth Larsen While certain areas of Tokyo have become synonymous with different threads of popular culture, such as Harajuku for teen fashion and…
by Miranda Ruth Larsen K-pop as we know it simply isn’t possible without Japan. Dal Yong Jin contends that Japan is “the most significant foreign…
by Raizel Liebler Made in Korea : studies in popular music (2017), edited by Hyunjoon Shin and Seung-Ah Lee is another excellent entry in the…
by Raizel Liebler Creativity Without Law: Challenging the Assumptions of Intellectual Property (New York University Press 2017), an edited collection is an important contribution to…
by Genevra Littlejohn An apocryphal story about the famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi tells that while he was staying at an inn, he chanced to overhear…
by Raizel Liebler Five years is a long time in music, especially in pop music. But five years ago, K-pop made its first major forays…
by Miranda Ruth Larsen During the 2015 edition of KCON Los Angeles (the West coast half of the annual Korean culture and music con) fans…
This is a discussion between TLF publisher, Keidra Chaney and editor-at-large, Vivian Obarski. KC: I just saw the latest Mindy Project where Mindy dates another…