October 18, 2024: Week in Review - BOS Nation, Liam Payne, and boba backlash
About The Episode
Today Culture Show co-hosts Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley, and Edgar B. Herwick III go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture week-in-review.
First up: The National Women’s Soccer League Franchise. It made a dangerous play this week when it debuted in Boston. For starters its name, BOS Nation was universally panned, then they added injury to insult with their slogan “Too Many Balls,” considered male-centric and transphobic, the league is now on the defensive apologizing for being so out of bounds.
From there they look at the brief but influential life of the singer-songwriter Liam Payne who died at age 31. As a leading member of One Direction he helped to reinvent the boy band, creating one of the most definitive pop groups of his era along the way.
Plus, a painting by abstract expressionist Norman Lewis is rescued from a condemned house on Cape Cod.
Finally, What’s black, white and ridiculously adorable all over? Pandas.
