#american-pop-culture

#american-pop-culture

While he didn't dream up the concept of cable TV or even launch its first culturally significant network - HBO gets that honor - Turner, an outsider who built his empire from Atlanta instead of New York or Hollywood, had an almost dogmatic belief in the industry's potential to break up the monopoly that the Big Three broadcast networks had maintained for decades.

My relationship with English began by force. Growing up in A Coruña, Spain, in the early 2000s, we were told that learning a second language was just as important as memorizing the multiplication table. After the 2008 financial crisis left the Spanish economy " melting down like a Dali horrorscape," as one Atlantic writer put it, English became what seemed like our national salvation, a one-way ticket to a better future abroad.

Chuck Mangione, the flugelhorn and trumpet player whose 1977 smooth jazz hit "Feels So Good" made a significant impact on American pop culture, has passed away at 84.