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Fun for the Entire Family

[15.Jul.08] :. The kid-friendliness movement has claimed its final frontier – a kid-friendly sex shop – but is such an establishment even remotely sex-friendly?

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I Me Mine!

[2.Jun.08] :. If, as Sir Tim Berners-Lee suggests, the Web is still a drooling, id-driven baby that wallows in its own (proverbial) feces, it makes sense that we continue to be mired in its arrested development.

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No Reply Needed

[24.Apr.08] :. Have 'REPLY ALL' emails become the latest outlet for the modern obsession with self-expression and fame?

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TODAY ON POPMATTERS

Features | recent
:. Surviving the Net Crunch: A Practical Guide for Print Publications in a Digital World
:. Now Hear This!: Joe Purdy [Lowell, Arkansas]

Columns | recent
Marginal Utility: Brand Evangelists
Field Studies: Vinyl: Got to Get You Into My Life

Blogs | recent
Marginal Utility: The Truman Show Delusion
Sound Affects: Good Bad, and Probably Evil
Crazed by the Music: Digital Survival Guide Redux
Short Ends and Leader: Friday Film Focus - 25 July, 2008
Notes from the Road: Robert Glasper Trio - 16 July 2008: New York, Madison Square Park
Moving Pixels: The Bright Side of E3
Re:Print: The Book Group

Music | recent | short takes | archive
:. David Bowie: Live Santa Monica '72
:. Billy Joel: The Stranger
:. DubXanne: Police in Dub
:. Sam Sparro: Sam Sparro
:. Teddy Thompson: A Piece of What You Need
:. Luke Doucet and the White Falcon: Blood's Too Rich

Events | recent | archive
:. Sonic Youth - River to River Festival — 4.July.08: Manhattan, NY

Film | recent | archive
:. The X-Files: I Want to Believe
:. Brideshead Revisited
:. Step Brothers

DVDs | recent | archive
:. 30 Days: The Complete Second Season
:. Los Straitjackets: Los Straitjackets in Concert

Books | recent | archive
:. Federico Fellini The Book of Dreams by Federico Fellini
:. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

Multimedia | recent | archive
:. Wii Fit

News | recent
:. ‘Civilization Revolution’ works on console
:. INTERVIEW:Starring role on ‘Psych’ the result of determination from Dule Hill
:. The Movie Masochist: Doing time in PG prison
:. Mad about the return of ‘Mad Men’

RECENT MUSIC

In bold are PopMatters Picks, the best in new music.

:. RZA as Bobby Digital
:. Radio Myanmar (Burma)
:. Reckless Kelly
:. Matthew Shipp Trio
:. Todd Sickafoose
:. Sonic Youth
:. Sam Sparro
:. Donna Summer
:. Teenage Head
:. The Band of Heathens
:. The Mother Truckers
:. The Orchid Highway
:. The Rough Guide to Arabic Café
:. Teddy Thompson
:. Randy Travis
:. The War on Drugs
:. Ben Watt
:. Paul Weller
:. Wire
Event Reviews
:. Eddie Izzard
:. Grupo Fantasma
:. Less Than Jake and Goldfinger with Big D and the Kids Table
:. Liz Phair
:. Love Is All
:. Lucinda Williams
:. Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
:. Mission of Burma
:. Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers
:. Sonic Youth - River to River Festival
:. Sunset Strip Music Festival
:. Superior Donuts
:. TV on the Radio
:. The BellRays
:. The Black Angels