This week, Taylor, Sandy, Doug Jordan and Taddea Richard discuss the show’s recent involuntary hiatus after the events of DougNation: Horny Christmas! But rather than dwelling on the past, the Our Week cast looks toward the future with an all new segment entitled Our Week’s: Predictions 2023! This and much, much more on the first Our Week: in Review of the new year!



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We talk with Caroline McManus about her piece “Maximally Likable: The Stay-at-Home Girlfriend and the White-Collar Woman.” Refracted identities, TikTok, 21st century ressentiment, and wellness routines. Stay in touch with us by subscribing to our newsletter. Find subscription plans, print issues, and merch at our online store. Music/beats by producer aLiVE of Muamin Collective.
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Maximally Likable: Caroline McManus on Stay-at-Home Girlfriends

We talk with Kameryn Alexa Carter about her piece “That Which We Call Ecstasy: On Artemesia Gentileschi’s Mary Magdalenes.” Gendered power dynamics embedded in artistic technique itself, the Italian Renaissance, proto-feminism, color theory, public-facing art history, and saving the work of forgotten artists. 
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This comprehensive account of the meteoric rise of The Simpsons combines incisive pop culture criticism and interviews with the show’s creative team that take readers inside the making of an American phenomenon during its most influential decade, the 1990s.

The Simpsons is an American institution. But its status as an occasionally sharp yet ultimately safe sitcom that's still going after 33 years on the air undercuts its revolutionary origins. The early years of the animated series didn't just impact Hollywood, they changed popular culture. It was a show that altered the way we talked around the watercooler, in school hallways, and on the campaign trail, by bridging generations with its comedic sensibility and prescient cultural commentary.

In Stupid TV, Be More Funny, writer Alan Siegel reveals how the first decade of the show laid the groundwork for the series' true influence. He explores how the show's rise from 1990 to 1998 intertwined with the supposedly ascendent post-Cold War America, turning Fox into the juggernaut we know today, simultaneously shaking its head at America's culture wars while finding itself in the middle of them. By packing the book with anecdotes from icons like Conan O’Brien and Yeardley Smith, Siegel alaso provides readers with an unparalleled look inside the making of the show.

Through interviews with the show's legendary staff and whip-smart analysis, Siegel charts how The Simpsons developed its singular sensibility throughout the ‘90s, one that was at once groundbreakingly subversive for a primetime cartoon and shocking wholesome. The result is a definitive history of The Simpsons' most essential decade.

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"I'm ready to bring back gatekeeping." The New Yorker staff writer discusses how to protect the underground, experimenting with drugs and her new book, Health and Safety.

Can drugs help us find meaning in music and nightlife? This is a question that today's Exchange guest, New Yorker staff writer Emily Witt, asks in earnest in her new book Health and Safety: A Breakdown. Just released in hardcover in the UK and Europe, the memoir traces Witt's life in her early-to-mid 30s. A journalist living and working in Brooklyn, she began experimenting with psychedelics and club drugs after years of living what she describes as a conservative, straight-and-narrow, middle-class life. She became enamoured with the borough's underground raves, frequenting events like the festival Sustain-Release, the party Unter and sets at Bushwick haunt Bossa Nova Civic Club, all while falling in love with an aspiring DJ and producer she calls Andrew.

As the book progresses, Witt documents the growing MAGA movement in America, gun rights rallies and mass shootings. As the country falls apart, she watches her romantic relationship fall apart, too. Drugs and Brooklyn nightlife, she writes, became both an escape and a way to rearrange a world that she starts to feel no longer makes sense. 

Witt shares critical opinions about the underground scene's capacity to be a utopia and place of belonging in an increasingly hostile world, arguing that there should be more gatekeeping in place to protect a scene that's threatened by capitalism and the mainstream. She also interrogates what she calls "woke identity politics" in Brooklyn, the lack of change that came from the Black Lives Matter movement, empty calls for political protest that dominated the early days of the pandemic and why, despite everything, she's chosen to stay in Brooklyn for good. Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula


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The official podcast of the Cleveland Review of Books, a journal of criticism publishing reviews, essays, interviews, and excerpts both online and in print. Among other formats, the podcast highlights contributors and their work, allowing them to expand on ideas they presented and experimented with in our pages.

Our Week: in Review is a talk radio show/podcast on WAYO-LP Rochester 104.3FM.

The show is hosted by "down-n-out" Rochester native Taylor Lofton, and features contributors; including: co-host Mike Doug Jordan, intern Thaddeus Michael Richards, and former host Sanford "Sandy" Farkus. 

Primarily focusing on last week's news, Our Week offers an unusual viewpoint on politics, entertainment, arts & science and much more.

The show also offers a glimpse into the lives of the contributing members of Our Week: in Review in cascading storylines that often end in debauchery, and downright hilarity.

Our Week: in Review airs weekly—Wednesday from 3-4 p.m.—on WAYO 104.3FM and wayofm.org, or on SoundCloud and Apple Podcasts.

Parental discretion is advised.

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