The question is: Will pop culture remember, or will pop culture want to forget?
A pandemic that has so far killed 300,000-plus in America and is on track to kill who knows how many more is clearly a defining event for our generation, maybe a defining event in human history.
Right now, we can t stop thinking about it, and we re sick of thinking about it. Pop culture has responded in an equally schizoid way.
On the one hand, albums by Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, BTS, Charli XCX and other artists touch directly or obscurely on the crisis. Films like the TV version of Stephen King s The Stand, were clearly created with this moment in mind.
Alternate Ending Beer Co., in Aberdeen
“Be patient.” That’s the best advice ever given to Scott Novick, owner of the new brewpub, Alternate Ending Beer Company, in Aberdeen, NJ. Whether it is appropriate for current state-of-the-world affairs or simply brewing a beer, being patient is clearly paying off.
And patient he’s been. After what was originally going to be a first-production brewery that swiveled into a brewpub, each step has kept Novick and his team on their toes.
This was one of many things I recently learned when I met up with Novick and some members of the Alternate Ending (AE) family f