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Chappell Roan: The Rise of a Midwest Princess October 03, 2024
The cultural highlight of 2024 has been the ascent of Chappell Roan to stratospheric popularity, with her campy drag queen aesthetic, high-energy performances, and string of exuberant hits celebrating queer love and unselfconscious fun and hedonism f...
The Eater Guide to the Heartland October 03, 2024
If you're looking for the American heartland, an amorphous term for the center of the country, you might start at 35,000 feet, the only way many travelers ever experience the so-called flyover states....
Gatsby Loses to Woody Allen April 30, 2024
Welcome to the Roaring Twenties. Of course, it’s too early to know whether the roar is college revolt or the howl from high food prices. Two years ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece of the prior Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby, entered the pub...
Finding the Boundaries of the American Midwest April 30, 2024
The founding father of Midwestern history, Frederick Jackson Turner, is popularly remembered for his essay about the influence of the frontier in American history, but his deeper interest was in the regions which developed after the frontier era pass...
