Curated List of Cultural Resources
Curated Culture
A curated list of fascinating cultural rabbit holes to explore
CULTURE BLOGS
Alternative Russian Culture — There’s far more to Modern Russian Culture than nationalism, conservatism and Putin — and right here ‘s where you’ll find it!
Anoxlou Visual Artistry — Los Angeles from the mean streets of Hollywood to the gritty waterfront of Long Beach California .
Arts and Letters Daily — From the Chronicle of Higher Education. Philosophy, aesthetics, literature, language, ideas criticism, culture, history, music, art, trends, breakthroughs, disputes, gossip and more.
Atlas Obscura — The definitive guide to the world’s hidden wonders
Berfrois — Literature, ideas, tea.
Book Beach Bunny- Need we Say More?
Big Think — Life hacks
BLDRS — design for resilience
Bronx Banter — Served Fresh Daily
Buzzkill Magazine — Pop Culture and more
Chickfactor — your legendary indie nerd bible
CultureFix — UK based pop culture site covering Europe
Culturico- Macro and micro opinions on humans
Daily News — Egypt- Egypt’s Only Daily Independent Newspaper In English
Damn Interesting — Damn Interesting is a small, independent, award-winning, and award-losing project dedicated to the dissemination of fascinating-yet-obscure true stories from science, history, and psychology.
Dangerous Minds — We are your favorite distraction.
Decades — Relive, Remember, Relate
DeMilked — Design Milking Magazine
Den of Geek- Best games to play on Zoom
Dribble- We’re building the world’s best community where designers share, grow, and get hired.
e-Flux- e-flux is a publishing platform and archive, artist project, curatorial platform, and enterprise which was founded in 1998.
Electric Literature — Electric Literature is a nonprofit digital publisher with the mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive.
Elephant — Online arts and culture magazine
Existential Comics — A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes.
Far Out Magazine UK- Music, film, travel, art
Gods of Advertising — We Make You Want What You Don’t Need
GQ — Culture
Happy — Lists
Hazlitt — A good website. Also, we’re making books
Her Culture — Our Site Supports Multilingualism, Endemic Knowledge and Contemporary International Awareness
Hilobrow — HiLobrow is a p-HILO-sophical blog edited by Joshua Glenn.
HiP Paris — HiP Paris Blog all that is hip and happening in Paris, France and beyond.
Hobbylark-Games, Hobbies, Fun!
HowStuffWorks — Have fun and learn
Hyperallergic- A leading voice in contemporary perspectives on art, culture, and more.
In Media Res — A Media Commons Project
Invisible Paris — Always looking, sometimes seeing
Kirkus Reviews — Book reviews and recommendations.
Listverse- Top 10 Lists
Live In Limbo — We believe that being in the moment enriches our lives. Lovers of Music, Lifestyle, Film, Food, & Travel.
Love + Radio Podcast — Nick van der Kolk’s Love and Radio features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. You’ve never heard anything like it before. New installments are added monthly.
Longform — Longform.org recommends new and classic non-fiction from around the web.
Logo Design Love — On logos and visual identities
Ludic Despair — The blog and digital larder of Jeffrey Sconce
Magnum Photos — A photographic cooperative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer members.
Matter — Medium’s flagship publication
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency — Daily humor almost every day since 1998.
Mediaite (Entertainment) —News and opinion about print, online, and broadcast media
Mental Floss — Home for all things curious
Messy Nessy Chic — Cabinet of Chic Curiosities
Milk — Fashion, Music, Art
Mr. Pop Culture — Exploring the World of Pop Culture
Munk Debates — Big Ideas. Smart Conversation (podcasts)
Museum of Pop Culture — Blog
Narratively — Celebrating humanity through authentic storytelling
Neoliberal Project — The Podcast
Nitch- Thoughts and perspectives
Nowness- Culture in Motion
Open Culture — The best free cultural & educational media on the web
Outland Culture — Because entertainment and lifestyle is better OutLoud.
Partially Examined Life — The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast: Some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living…but then thought better of it.
Pink Panther Snipes Again — Film criticism, feminism, fright, & other f words
Pissed Off Geek — Reviews with an Edge
Please Kill Me — The home of Please Kill Me: the Uncensored Oral History of Punk, and other books & projects by best-selling authors Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain.
Pluralistic: Daily Links from Cory Doctorow
Pop Culture Brain- Named one of TIME’s 30 Must-See Tumblr Blogs,
Pop Culture Experiment — A playground for nerds to geek out on music, movies, TV & more
Pop Culture Studies — Some people maintain the notion that there is a contrast of high culture and low culture…
Project Syndicate- The World’s Opinion Page
Primetimer — Tracking the Peak TV era in real-time
Radio Waves — The daily blog from Two Dollar Radio.
Res Obscura- A catalog of obscure things
ScienceAlert- A website that promotes general science news.
Seeker — Seeker empowers the curious to understand the science shaping our world.
Shapers of the 80’s — British Youth Culture at its Finest
Splice Today — Our emphasis is weighted toward politics and the arts — music, film and books — but also includes essays and interviews about sports and the nuances of today’s popular culture
Strange Flowers — A cabinet of human curiosities
Super Summary — Literature Study Guides and Summaries
That’s Entertainment!- Blog about classic television shows
The Bulwark- The whole concept of death is terrible
The Curious Brain — Hello! This is Michael Paredrakos a “dyslexic” 360º Brand & Communication Strategy Consultant (isn’t it ironic?) from Greece.
The Electric Typewriter — Great articles and essays by the world’s best journalists and writers.
The Escapist — Everything fun
The Fandomentals — Exploring the fundamentals of fandom
The Good Web Guide — Lifestyle
The Great Discontent — Celebrating the untold stories of today’s artists, makers, and risk-takers.
The Hard Times — Real punk news, comin’ your way!
The Hub — curated Canadian news source
The Independent Arts Journal — An online magazine showcasing reviews, features, interviews and more from the arts scene Australia wide.
The Last Futurist- Artificial Intelligence of Everything
The Punk Theory — This World’s Wild at Heart and Weird on Top
The Selvedge Yard — A website that celebrates cultural icons in the world of motorcycles, muscle cars, rock & roll, cinema, pin-up beauties, Kustom Kulture, Americana, photography, art, design, menswear, style, literature, and adventure.
The Shortlisted UK — Entertainment and music magazine
Thought Economics- Thought Economics is a journal of intellectual capital, now read in over 120 countries. We are recognized for our exclusive one to one interviews with the individuals who have shaped our world, are shaping our future, and impact every aspect of our lives.
Tom & Lorenzo — Tom & Lorenzo enjoys a readership in the millions, a podcast listened to by tens of thousands every week, two books, and a social media presence that has all combined to successfully recast them from fan bloggers to legitimate fashion and cultural critics.
Trendland — Daily curation since 2006
Universal-Sci — Providing you with Interesting news stories about worldwide scientific endeavors — As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Urban 75 blog — Photo features from Brixton, London, Wales, New York and more.
VSauce — Videos that feed the curious and illuminate the amazing
We Make Money Not Art — Régine Debatty is a writer, curator, critic, and founder of we-make-money-not-art.com, a blog which received 2 Webby awards and recently received an honorary mention at the START Prize, a competition that acknowledges ” innovative projects at the interface of science, technology and art”.
Wiki-How — Find out how to do stuff
Zergnet — Entertainment article curator
Zombies in my Blog — My Blog covers all things horror and Geek Gulture!
CULTURE MAGAZINES
Aesthetica Magazine- Aesthetica is the destination for art and culture. Mag
AnOther Magazine- A modern eye on fashion, culture and ideas
Another Escape — Another Escape is an independent media company championing outdoor lifestyle, environmental stewardship and regenerative living.
ArtReview- The independent critical voice in contemporary art since 1949.
Belt Magazine — A digital magazine dedicated to thoughtful, nuanced writing by and for the Rust Belt and greater Midwest.
Bitch Media — Feminist Response to Pop Culture: Bitch magazine, Popaganda, Backtalk, Feminist Snack Break, & Bitch on Campus.
Boston Review — A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975.
Bold as Love Magazine- Music & culture from the new black imagination.
Bust — The magazine for women with something to get off their chests.
Catapult — Award-winning fiction and nonfiction of the highest literary caliber.
Cereal (Style) Cereal is a biannual, travel & style magazine based in the United Kingdom. Each issue focusses on a select number of destinations, alongside engaging interviews and stories on unique design, art, and fashion.
ColorLines — A daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning in-depth reporting, news analysis, opinion and curation.
Coilhouse (ARCHIVE) Coilhouse is a love letter to alternative culture. We cover unique, fearless forms of art, music, fashion, film, technology and literature — from sci-fi and punk rock, to fringe fashion and green technology.
Current Affairs — A magazine of politics and culture
Dame Magazine- Reporting & analysis on politics, policy, culture and more. We don’t fake anything, especially not the news.
Democracy Journal- A Journal of Ideas.
Diplomatic Courier- The global affairs media network connecting global publics to leaders.
Dissent — The oldest democratic socialist magazine in the United States.
Duck of Minerva- The Duck of Minerva focuses on world politics from an academic perspective.
ExponentsMag- A community publication from the Neoliberal project
fNewsMagazine — The greatest Newsmagazine in the land, run by School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) students.
Flood Magazine — FLOOD spans the cultural landscape of music, TV, film, art, travel, and everything in between.
FrontRunner — A NYC Collective. Inspire. Be Inspired.
Fukt Magazine — a magazine for contemporary drawing
gal-dem — Award winning online and print magazine committed to sharing the perspectives of people of colour from marginalised genders
Guernica — Celebrating 15 years of global art & politics
grafik. (blog) — Featuring the world’s leading graphic design, typography & visual culture since 2003. Currently raising funds to #BringGrafikMagBack
High Country News — An independent magazine dedicated to shining a light on all the complexities of the Western U.S.
Huck — Stories from the fringes
Humungus — A pop culture publication on Medium
Hunger TV — The bi-annual magazine for the culturally and visually hungry.
It’s Freezing in LA! — IFLA! is a critically acclaimed independent magazine with a fresh take on climate change
Kinfolk — Delving deeply into home, work, style and culture, Kinfolk promotes quality of life and connects a global community of creative professionals from London to Tokyo.
Lagom (Archive) — Lagom is a lifestyle magazine connecting a global community of like-minded creatives who care about thoughtful design, independent travel, and a balanced approach to life.
Laughing Squid — A daily dose of art, culture, and technology.
Lens Culture — We believe that recognition and exposure are essential for photographers of all levels to move forward creatively and professionally, and this belief underpins our ongoing efforts to share, celebrate and reward great photography.
Little Atoms — Podcasts, features and stories from the Little Atoms team.
Love — Videos, interviews, news and more.
Magculture- — We Love Magazines
Marker — Pop business for the intelligent reader. A publication from Medium.
MEL Magazine — There’s no playbook for how to be a guy.
MixMag- News, music, video, features in the electronic music industry
Monocle — Monocle magazine was launched in 2007 to provide a briefing on global affairs, business, culture, design and much more
n + 1 — Founded in New York City in 2004 by six young writers and editors who wanted to revive the American tradition of politically engaged literary magazines.
Nautilus — We are here to tell you about science and its endless connections to our lives.
New Philosopher — Voted ‘Magazine of the Decade’ in Dec 2019.
Nostalgia Magazine- Ageless stories, ageless photos
Nowness — NOWNESS is a movement for creative excellence in storytelling celebrating the extraordinary of every day.
Offscreen (blog) — Offscreen is an independent print magazine that explores critical perspectives on technology through earnest conversations.
Orion Magazine — “America’s Finest Environmental Magazine.” 100% ad-free, reader-supported publication at the convergence of ecology, art, and social justice, since 1982.
Our Culture — Fashion, Music, Gaming, Literature and more.
OZY — A media and entertainment company tailor-made for the Change Generation.
Passages North — A national literary magazine based at Northern Michigan University.
Paste — Signs of life in music, arts and culture
PIN-UP — Art, fashion, music articles and more.
Polyester Zine — Have faith in your own bad taste.
Port Magazine — The intelligent style, culture and design biannual.
PopCrush — Wear a mask. Listen to pop music.
Ransom Note (Musings) Music, Culture, Record Label (s), Musings, Other
Rest of World — We connect the dots across a rapidly evolving digital world, through on-the-ground reporting in places typically overlooked and underestimated.
Smithsonian Magazine- History, science, arts, ingenuity and more
Spike Magazine — Books, Music, Art, Ideas
The Afterword- Musings on the byways of popular culture (UK)
The Baffler — The Baffler is America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems and art.
The Curated Culture — Culture. Tech. Whatever.
The Hedgehog Review — Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture
The Gentlewoman — The Gentlewoman celebrates modern women of style and purpose.
The Good Web Guide — Guest Editors & Experts
The Great Discontent- Celebrating the untold stories of today’s artists, makers, and risk-takers
The Modernist — Exploring under-appreciated 20th century architecture, design and what goes on behind the walls of buildings we may pass every day
The Moth (Stories) — Nonprofit organization dedicated to the art & craft of storytelling.
The Oldie- Articles of nostalgia from the UK
The Skinny (UK) — Independent. Cultural. Journalism
The Quietus — News, reviews, features and more.
This isn’t Happiness- Art, Photography, Design and Disappointment
Tin House — a literary radio show and podcast hosted by David Naimon, is brought to you by Tin House and KBOO 90.7FM community radio in Portland, Oregon.
Varoom — Varoom is a unique publication commanding a global audience commenting on and discussing the contemporary illustrated image in depth.
Volt Cafe — Fashion as Art, Art as Fashion….
Yes! Magazine- Solutions Journalism
Wonderland Magazine — An international, independently published magazine offering a unique perspective on the best new and established talent across all popular culture: fashion, film, music and art.
Works that Work (Articles) — A Magazine of Unexpected Creativity
SATIRE and HUMOR….and Memes
