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Why Is the Genie in ‘Aladdin’ Blue?
There’s a simple answer and a colonialist legacy for why the genie looks the way it does
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There Was the Magazine Quiz. Then Came the Internet. What Now?
From the “Cosmo Quiz” to Quizilla to Buzzfeed… what’s next?
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What the Earliest Super Bowl Commercials Tell Us About the Super Bowl
The inaugural title game in 1967 would not have been getting kudos from the media for representing women
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Seventy-Five Years Ago, the Television Musical Made Its Debut
“RENT: Live” meet “The Boys from Boise”
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Before the ‘Baby Shark’ Song Made the Hot 100, ‘Silly Symphonies’ Were All the Rage
The “musical novelty” series of shorts achieved critical and popular success, too
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How America Tidied Up Before Marie Kondo
From the Progressive Era’s social hygiene movement to Netflix self-help reality television
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