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Special SectionsWednesday, November 11 2009
Re-Meet the Beatles: PopMatters Salutes the Still Fab FourPopMatters takes a comprehensive look at the history and impact of the Beatles over 7 days. Today:
Friday, October 23 2009
PopMatters @ 10PopMatters celebrates its birthday this week with a series of essays on cultural changes over our 10-year lifespan. Today: Mark Reynolds on "The Long and Short of Long-Form Journalism" and Nikki Tranter on "Exit from Nowheresville: My 10 Years with PopMatters". Friday, September 25 2009
Rest in Pieces: Eulogies of the Past, Present, and Future - Part 5Today: Kirby Fields on the iconic Kurt Cobain, Sarah Hentges reveres science fiction writer Octavia Estelle Butler and Jillian Steinhauer on the perfect understatement of Steve Buscemi. Friday, September 11 2009
Feast or Famine: The 2009 PopMatters Fall Movie PreviewToday: December 2009: The big guns -- James Cameron, Clint Eastwood, Peter Jackson, Terrence Malik -- are still putting the finishing touches on their over the top treats. As usual, it looks like the Hollywood heavyweights are once again saving some of the best for last. Friday, August 28 2009
Hellboy Sweet SixteenPopMatters offers an in-depth cultural analysis of the Hellboy phenomenon. Today: "The Devil You Know: Mignola's Hellboy in the Chapel of Moloch and the Old Debate" AND "The Horror of Science and Magic in Hellboy". Friday, August 21 2009
Casablanca Records: Play It AgainThirty-five years ago, KISS and Parliament debuted on Casablanca, a label that influenced generations of music listeners and defined an era in popular music. Join PopMatters and more than 50 artists and executives for our exclusive, five-part oral history of Casablanca. Friday, July 31 2009
100 Essential Male Film PerformancesPart 1: Life Support Friday, July 24 2009
Pixelated Brains and New MediaIn Pixelated Brains, a four-part section spanning June and July, we consider: R WE UNABL 2 THNK & COMMUNIC8 N MENINGFL WYZ NE MORE? Thursday, July 9 2009
The Love You Save: A Tribute to Michael JacksonToday: The MJ Top Ten Tribute | The Fawn in the Burning Forest: Our Beloved Monster | The Teflon King: Ronald Reagan and the Death of Michael Jackson | Artomising MJ | 'Thriller': The First in Meta Horror | Michael Jackson Forever. Monday, June 29 2009
The Edge of Change: The Most Memorable Albums of 1999PopMatters turns 10 this year and to celebrate we are looking back at the popular music that defined the year of our birth. [Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5] Friday, June 5 2009
Let’s Go Crazy: Celebrating 25 Years of Purple RainSome 25 years after it was released, PopMatters proudly celebrates Purple Rain in its entirety, looking at the album and film from every angle. Thursday, April 30 2009
Summer of Same: The 2009 PopMatters Summer Movie PreviewIt will be a Summer of Same: same old franchises seeing multi-million dollar updates; same old actors in rote roles; directors digging deep into their cinematic bags of tricks, hoping they can find meaning out of one more mainstream paycheck. [May | June | July | August] Wednesday, April 1 2009
Wham!‘s “Make It Big” Turns 25An April Fool's Day special: When Wham! named its second record Make It Big, is was a statement of purpose and a prophecy. Wham! reshaped our understanding of what a pop song could achieve and produced an album that became the definitive musical statement of a generation. Friday, March 27 2009
Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair. Day Five: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999) Monday, February 23 2009
100 Essential Female Film PerformancesPopMatters concludes our 100 Best Female Film Performances feature with extremely insightful, generous anecdotes from Liv Ullmann about three of the performances on this list, one of her personal choices, and a once-in-a-lifetime addendum by the glorious Bergman super trouper Bibi Andersson herself. Friday, January 30 2009
Calling Out Around the World: Motown Turns 50PopMatters concludes our week-long celebration of Motown at 50 with Diane Leach's essay on living in the Detroit of the '80s in What It Was Like and a couple more album gems with Needles in the Haystack. Thursday, January 22 2009
Slipped Discs 2008From AmpLive to Xiu Xiu, PopMatters presents our two-part selection of Slipped Discs, 80 great albums that didn’t quite make our year-end list in 2008, but which our writers thought belonged there. [Part 1 | Part 2] Friday, January 16 2009
PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008PopMatters concludes our week-long special highlighting the best TV, film and DVD of the past year with the 30 Best Films of 2008 and Best Complexities in 2008. Friday, January 9 2009
Best Music Scribing Awards 2008The sloppy arrogance and search for ideas in the music scribing world. Gross presents the seventh annual edition of his picks for the year's best music writing sans PopMatters. Wednesday, January 7 2009
PopMatters Picks: Best (and Worst) in Show 2008During the past 12 months, PopMatters writers have been turned away from shows due to torrential rain, stood next to flaming cymbals, and stepped out of their comfort zones all in the name of objective reporting. Here are the best and worst musical events of 2008. |
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