Libby Copeland

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Articles on trends, cultural moments, and strange corners of America.

Is your persimmon soap infused with geisha wisdom? The precious world of artisanal beauty.

Libby Copeland March 27, 2017

The brands may be small-scale and homespun, but artisanal beauty is fast becoming a big business, with more and more dedicated websites and retail outlets cropping up.

Categories: Marketing, Pop Culture, Washington Post Tags: artisanal beauty, credo beauty, NPD Group, persimmon soap

What’s Up With Penthouse Magazine’s New Female, Feminist CEO? (Q&A)

Libby Copeland March 27, 2017

“I did a visually great piece where a woman was in a cage, and she came out and drank milk out of a bowl like a cat. I thought it was hot, so if it turns me on, I’m all about that. Is that an abrogation of feminist thinking if a woman is turned on by putting herself in a submissive situation?”

Categories: Articles, Esquire.com, Gender, Pop Culture Tags: feminism, Kelly Holland, Penthouse magazine

Our messed-up relationship with food has a long history. It started with butter.

Libby Copeland March 27, 2017

Butter’s story is a very American story, because the arc of its vilification and subsequent redemption is a parable for how we get food wrong time and again. We alternately demonize and idealize individual ingredients — not just butter but also sugar, caffeine, red wine and supposed miracle foods featured on “The Dr. Oz Show” — and in doing so, we miss the big picture.

Categories: Marketing, Pop Culture, Washington Post Tags: butter, carbohydrates, elaine khosrova, fat, nutritional science, obesity

Is Howard Stern Going Soft or Just Getting Sharper?

Libby Copeland January 28, 2016

Those who stopped tuning in when the pioneer of shock jock culture left terrestrial radio for satellite a decade ago have no idea what they’re missing. Late-night TV has all but abandoned the art of the Q&A for goofy games and scripted shtick — and Howard Stern has unexpectedly emerged as the most potent and powerful interviewer in American broadcasting.

Categories: Pop Culture, Washington Post Tags: Artie Lange, Bob Lefsetz, Daryl Hall, David Letterman, Howard Stern, Jackie Martling, John Melendez, Madonna, Marci Turk, pop culture, Stuttering John

Who Owns The Dead? (The New Republic)

Libby Copeland June 27, 2015

A small but growing group of women like Knox are slowly building a movement to change our modern, big-business approach to death. They call themselves home funeral guides or death midwives.

Categories: Pop Culture, The New Republic Tags: Ask a Mortician, Caitlin Doughty, death midwives, home funerals, Order of the Good Death, the business of death

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