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Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York and Berlin, covering art, architecture, urbanism, and technology. She contributes to publications like Frieze, Artforum, e-flux, die Zeit, the Architectural Review, and Metropolis. She's currently a contributing editor at e-flux Journal and Rhizome.
Pop Culture Happier Hour
Fans of NPR's classic podcast "Pop Culture Happy Hour" might want to add the podcast "Who? Weekly" to their libraries. Especially if the NPR version has started to sound a bit too dry for your taste. Listening to "Who? Weekly" feels more like reading a tabloid than reading a newspaper, and as far as pop-culture shows go, it's one of the juciest.
The show's tagline is "Everything you need to know about the celebrities you don't." Discussing two specific celebrities is the weekly focus—but the question for the podcasters, Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber, is not just "who" these celebriteies are but why they're famous, and more broadly, what celebrity culture really is and how it can be evaluated. They're gossipy but they're also smart and have moral compasses. They tackle issues from equal representation in Hollywood to Instagram sponsorship to beauty standards.
