Culture consumed vacation edition(3 weeks). First up is October 26-November 1 :

Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠 Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy. 📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S

I recently said goodbye to one of my cats, and I'm still not over it. I found Ellie the parrot so compelling because she wanted to talk about her grief in the fascinating documentary #ParrotKindergarten about animal communication. Check out my interview for @salon.com www.salon.com/2025/11/02/p...

I really can't watch serial killer content - true crime or dramatized - with only a few exceptions, but certainly not the #Monster anthology series. @mctelevision.bsky.social hits upon why for @salon.com www.salon.com/2025/10/29/o...

Taking a second to shout-out some of the brilliant work @salon.com published in 2024-25 on the culture desk, which have been recognized as finalists for the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards:

Thrilled that I received 2 nominations for this year's @lapressclub.bsky.social Nat'l Arts & Entertaining Journalism Awards. First one is a profile of Ke Huy Quan www.salon.com/2025/02/07/k...

Congrats, Whitney! This was such a fun story to work with you on. Appreciative of the work you put in for @salon.com

"I will never again hear his laughter or his voice, those beloved words ‘Sister, hi.’" Nicole Karlis continues her @salon.com reporting on Burning Man. In her latest, she speaks to family and friends of Vadim Kruglov, the man who was killed on the playa this year. www.salon.com/2025/10/27/h...

TIL that "Dumpkin Spice" Dude Wipes, a thing I thought for sure @andizeisler.bsky.social had invented to make me gag, are actually a product one can buy. www.salon.com/2025/10/27/b...

Culture consumed October 19-25: #TyphoonFamily #MsIncognito #Khemjira #kdrama #BL

Srsly how 🤷🏻‍♀️

Now that #KPopDemonHunters & #Sinners will be rereleased in theaters for Halloween, it's time to do that double feature if you can AND dress up! (Note: Sinners will only be on IMAX in 6 states) Similar themes & killer soundtracks -- most likely will be Oscar contenders www.salon.com/2025/07/11/s...

I had no idea about the type of food featured on #BonAppetitYourMajesty and #TastefullyYours was in danger of being lost ... I spoke to someone who's trying to save it for @salon.com www.salon.com/2025/10/26/b... #kdramas

Culture consumed Oct 12-18: #jdrama #RomanticsAnonymoud #kdrama #MsIncognito

"Portland’s protest style has everything to do with an approach to life that pushes back on being told what to do and how to do it," writes @andizeisler.bsky.social about #frog protest tactics for @salon.com www.salon.com/2025/10/16/p...

Across America’s coastal towns, the people who kept vacationers fed are now struggling to feed themselves.

News coverage of the attacks on trans rights are excluding trans voices. @media-studies.bsky.social and @transjournalists.org found that 70% of articles about trans people did not quote any trans people, and just 6% quoted trans youth. Journalists can do better. Full report here: bit.ly/TJA_visible

"As remarkable as #DianeKeaton was onscreen throughout her entire career, her performance in #TheFamilyStone stands out as a singularly underappreciated moment in her filmography," writes @colemanjspilde.bsky.social for @salon.com www.salon.com/2025/10/15/t...

This Saturday, October 18, we’re exercising our right to dissent and taking to the streets. Prepare for No Kings protests with our virtual Know Your Rights training this Wednesday, October 15 at aclu.org/october15_training

At one time in my life I wouldn't donate to fundraisers if I only had a little to give. It seemed too small to make a difference so why bother? Now I know that goals get achieved when LOTS of people give those small amounts! Let's smash this hay drive one $8 bale at a time. 🍂

Wow #Boots was so compelling with a fantastic cast. Cameron is a closeted recruit in the 1990s when the Marines were not tolerant of gay folks. Explores how the military creates killers, but also how our society values a very narrow masculinity & the harm that causes www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mjN...

Argh where are my #BL fans on Blue sky?? #Khemjira is shaping up to be one of my top series of the year. Most recent Episode 10 was ridiculously well done youtu.be/PV7rg5Pl-7Q?...

Culture consumed Oct 4-12 #boots #NobodyWantsThis #gbbo #kdramas #BL

"It’s difficult to imagine the upside-down universe where I end up writing this sentence, but it happens to be reality: The Vatican stood up to Donald Trump, but the Nobel committee bent the knee," writes @andrewohehir.bsky.social for @salon.com www.salon.com/2025/10/12/a...

Finally catching up with Karate Kid Legends, and wait, Josh Jackson is supposed to be an Italian American former boxer turned pizza shop owner??! Anyway, I'm here for pugilist Pasta Pacey youtu.be/SE-fpvlfMZQ?...

When the transcript reminds you of a visitor 🐿️

"I get that this sounds presumptuous: Who the hell am I to stage a Taylor/America intervention, even a purely hypothetical one?" writes @andizeisler.bsky.social about #TaylorSwift for @salon.com www.salon.com/2025/10/10/w...

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

New #Hamnet trailer is out! I always trust Chloé Zhao for the look and vibes. Should I read the book first? www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYcg...

I loved #NoOtherChoice. #ParkChanWook #LeeByungHun killed with this dark, hilarious look at jobless desperation "None of us is exempt from being pushed to our limits by capitalism’s heartlessness," writes @colemanjspilde.bsky.social for @salon.com www.salon.com/2025/10/07/n... #kdrama

Happy (?) Read a Banned Book Week! Read something verboten today! #bannedbooks "Whatever the subject or author or decade, restricting access to books by deeming them dangerous or subversive only makes them more appealing," writes @andizeisler.bsky.social for @salon.com www.salon.com/2025/10/06/t...

Culture consumed Sept. 28-Oct. 3: #Frankenstein #Elio #JeffreyEpstein #BonAppetitYourMajesty #Khemjira #kdrama #BL

"A bag is a bag is a bag, even if the one being handed to you has a severed foot sticking out of it," writes @mctelevision.bsky.social for @salon.com about the comedians performing at the #RiyadhComedyFestival www.salon.com/2025/10/05/s...

Indy's performance in #GoodBoy is up there with some of my favorite animal performances. I spoke to his humans about how it all came together for @salon.com www.salon.com/2025/10/03/g...

Watching the Sumud Flotilla tonight and thinking about our friend Greta Thunberg, who was just arrested by Israel… and also countless other people who are just as brave even if we don’t know their names yet

"A president who wages war on the states that didn’t elect him is a dangerous president," writes @andizeisler.bsky.social for @salon.com #Portland www.salon.com/2025/10/01/a...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Stop it with the "hones in" or "hones in on" already #grammar

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Culture consumed Sept. 21-27 #AlienEarth #HouseOfGuinness #BonAppetitYourMajesty #Khemjira #kdrama #BL

Warning SPOILERS! Read on for the director's thoughts on the Joker in #AliceInBorderland www.salon.com/2025/09/29/a...

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

"The lasting significance of the public outrage over #JimmyKimmel’s supposedly indefinite suspension won’t be fully known for some time, but in the short term, he’s been emboldened by public support" writes @mctelevision.bsky.social for @salon.com www.salon.com/2025/09/26/j...

🚨Warning: Spoilers! 🚨Once you've watched #AliceInBorderland 🃏 Season 3, check out all the familiar faces who returned www.salon.com/2025/09/26/a...

I joined @laist.com's TV Talk to discuss #AliceInBorderland 🃏 #HouseOfGuinness🍺 & #AlienEarth's big final week (with love for the eye midge 👁️🐙) Take a listen: bit.ly/3W9ASJA

Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them. The current climate is especially accelerating this. Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves. Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

Happy #AliceInBorderland S3 day. Here's a non-spoilery interview I did for @salon.com to read safely before you watch www.salon.com/2025/09/23/a...