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Columns
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PopPundit: Santa Claus: Super Hero Icon and Religious Figure

Blogs
Consuming Consumables: G.I. Joe A Real American Hero & Transformers
Marginal Utility: Vinyl Sales Surge
Channel Surfing: Is ‘Glee’ a Little Bit Racist?
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Sound Affects: Where Are the Ladies at on the Best of the Decade Charts?
Moving Pixels: Locomotion, Parkour, and the Illusion of Competence in Video Games
Short Ends and Leader: Nine-Sense: 10 Better Possible Movie/Musical Adaptations
Notes from the Road: Elvis Perkins in Dearland: 4.Dec.09 - New York

Music
:. Rihanna: Rated R
:. Mahala Raï Banda: Ghetto Blasters
:. White Out with Jim O’Rourke and Thurston Moore: Senso
:. Living Colour: The Chair in the Doorway
:. Adam Steffey: One More for the Road
:. French Miami: French Miami

Events
:. Matisyahu: 03 November 2009 - Chicago, IL

DVDs
:. Mystery Science Theater 3000: XVI
:. Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution

Books
:. What Would Susie Say?: Bullsh*t Wisdom about Love, Life and Comedy by Susie Essman
:. Under the Dome by Stephen King

News
:. INTERVIEW:Pop culture Q&A: ‘Breaking Bad’ to return

Reviews

Sounder

By Jake Meaney

This film skirts heavy handedness with grace and subtly, insinuating itself into your subconscious and lighting things up from deep within. [11 February 2009]

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

By Marc Calderaro

This is easily one of Burton’s best performances in a long career of great roles. He embodies so eloquently the ambivalence of the Cold War and the sad fiction of the “sexy spy”. [4 December 2008]

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965)

By Lesley Smith

Martin Ritt coaxes a performance from Richard Burton that reveals Leamas as a full-fledged existential hero. [12 July 2004]