The 2017 Fyre Festival was one of the biggest music stories of this decade. Because it was an absolute disaster. Advertised as the most exclusive music festival in history, held on a private Bahamian island, it had the endorsement of multiple social media stars, such as Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid. It was going to be incredible…if you were very, very rich and could spend tens of thousands of dollars on a weekend. However, it was all a giant scam and the attendees wound up on an over-crowded spit of land with almost no food, collapsing tents, soaking wet beds and no bands. The schadenfreude was delicious – so much so that two documentaries, Hulu’s Fyre Fraud and Netflix’s Fyre, are doing the rounds… read more >
The Superstitious Practice of ‘Knock on Wood’
In the United States, we say “knock wood or knock on wood” (in the U.K., it’s “touch wood”) in a variety of situations, like after
