Sporting a “Brat” shirt, a vibrant green owl strikes a pose outside Charli XCX’s concert venue, while 20 flashy owl heads bop to pop music under strobe lights inside. This surreal scene wasn’t...

The day after Halloween, homogenous marketing greets shoppers in each store: Posters and signs glare at passersby from front windows, holiday music screams in customers’ ears and mountains of Christmas...