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How groceries got gentrified, with Snaxshot's Andrea Hernández

Jul 2 • Andrea Domanick, Emilie Friedlander, and Snaxshot

Towards a unified theory of the girlboss, with TrueAnon's Liz Franczak

Oct 19, 2023 • Emilie Friedlander, Andrea Domanick, and Liz

Remembering Kim's Video, the world's coolest video store

Jul 18 • Andrea Domanick and Emilie Friedlander

Tomorrow's music today, with Simon Reynolds

Aug 15 • Andrea Domanick and Emilie Friedlander

The broken promises of neo-leftist crypto

Jun 20 • Andrea Domanick and Emilie Friedlander

Has music journalism lost its way?

Jun 17, 2021 • Emilie Friedlander and Andrea Domanick

55:14

How a bill to save local journalism turned into a mysterious AI incubator

Brian Merchant on the strange story of the California Journalism Preservation Act—and how AI stands to impact journalists.

Aug 30 •

Andrea Domanick

and

Emilie Friedlander

1:07:46

Tomorrow's music today, with Simon Reynolds

What electronic music can tell us about our past, present, and future

Aug 15 •

Andrea Domanick

and

Emilie Friedlander

1:01:27

How the 2024 election became brat

On font memes and the brattification of politics, with Drew Millard and Ruby Thelot

Aug 1 •

Andrea Domanick

,

Emilie Friedlander

,

Ruby Justice Thelot

, and

13:23

Emilie's trial by fire as a Kim’s Video clerk

Listen to Emilie's 2014 essay about the downtown NYC counterculture of the 2000s and the highs and lows of cultural gatekeeping.

Jul 25 •

Emilie Friedlander

and

Andrea Domanick

1:08:02

Remembering Kim's Video, the world's coolest video store

'Kim's Video' director David Redmon looks back on the era of tangible media, snooty clerks, and a lost East Village—and his wild fight to bring it back.

Jul 18 •

Andrea Domanick

and

Emilie Friedlander

1:15:22

How groceries got gentrified, with Snaxshot's Andrea Hernández

Understanding food as a millennial and Gen Z status symbol, one bottle of Graza olive oil at a time

Jul 2 •

Andrea Domanick

,

Emilie Friedlander

, and

46:56

The broken promises of neo-leftist crypto

How the VC class hoodwinked artists and leftists into getting into crypto, with Eli Zeger

Jun 20 •

Andrea Domanick

and

Emilie Friedlander

1:08:38

Inside the bill that could (finally) regulate Big Streaming

UMAW’s Damon Krukowski on how The Living Wage for Musicians Act could disrupt the winner-take-all economics of streaming and get musicians paid

Jun 6 •

Emilie Friedlander

and

Andrea Domanick

Introducing CUJOPLEX, a digital third space for Culture Journalist listeners

We’ve got a record store, an internet cafe, and even a “Hot Topic.”

May 30 •

Emilie Friedlander

and

Andrea Domanick

The Culture Journalist

The Culture Journalist

A podcast about the shadowy and powerful forces lurking beneath the surface of culture and the media, with Emilie Friedlander and Andrea Domanick. New episodes drop every two weeks, with a monthly bonus episode and other goodies for paid subscribers.

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