It’s difficult to identify the point where an obscure fad becomes a mainstream craze or the point where no one wants it anymore. Trends can be cool, profitable and healthy. Ask any Brooklyn record store owner or someone diagnosed with a gluten allergy. But there’s also a point where pop culture and lifestyle trends become annoying. No one wants to see white girls appropriating native dress at a corporate music festival. This week and every week on BTRtoday, we help make those points plain.
The Cure Memes to Cure Your Soul
- Screenshot of The Cure red carpet interview
Boys don’t cry. Unless it’s from laughter caused by these Cure memes.
Coachella Sucks And You Shouldn’t Go
- Photo by Mina Knudsen
Care about equality? Then you have to give the festival a hard pass.
Is Sleep Deprivation Actually Voter Suppression?
- Photo by Kevin Grieve on Unsplash
A new study suggests the negative effects from lack of sleep reach as far as the ballot box.
The Beginners Guide to Life After Gluten
- Photo by Kat Jayne from Pexels
Tummy troubles run in my family. Getting tested for Celiac Disease kept me from constant sprints to the bathroom.
Brooklyn Record Exchange Grand Opening
- Photo by Jeanette D. Moses
The Brooklyn Record Exchange opened in Bushwick this weekend!