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Features
:. Re-Meet the Beatles: PopMatters Salutes the Still Fab Four
:. The Iconographies: We Few, We Happy Few, We Bandaged Brothers: Jeff Lemire’s The Nobody and the Quest for Self

Columns
Suffragette City: An Education: Carey Mulligan Comes of Age
The Rockist: Does Late Night TV Still Matter? Part 3

Blogs
Sound Affects: Six (Not So) Easy Pieces: Picking the Perfect Rock Songs
Marginal Utility: End of Utopias
Mixed Media: White Denim - “I Start to Run” (video)
Short Ends and Leader: ‘Pirate Radio’ Plots a Unnecessarily Complicated Course
Moving Pixels: It’s A Mad Mad Mad MadWorld

Music
:. Dolly Parton: Dolly
:. Broadcast and the Focus Group: Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
:. DOOM: Unexpected Guests
:. Horace Andy and Alpha: Two Phazed People
:. Turbo Fruits: Echo Kid
:. DD/MM/YYYY: Black Circle
:. Laura Nyro: Mother’s Spiritual

Events
:. Pearl Jam: 31 October 2009 - Philadelphia

Film
:. Fantastic Mr. Fox
:. 2012
:. The End of Poverty?
:. Pirate Radio

DVDs
:. Monsoon Wedding (The Criterion Collection)
:. The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins

Books
:. Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce’s Masterpiece
:. To Siberia by Per Petterson

Multimedia
:. Magna Carta 2

News
:. Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas speaks out about his solo disc
:. Adam Goldberg kicks a bucket as ‘(Untitled)’ artist
:. Whoever decided to update ‘The Prisoner’ should be locked up
:. Dhani Harrison has his own band, as well as a big hand in ‘Beatles: Rock Band’
:. 10 anticipated movies: Mayhem, a musical and a bit of mirth
:. New hosts Lopez, Sykes and Mo’Nique boast a new audacity, but is that enough?

Reviews

Big

By Adam Besenyodi

Over the course of eight months, four body switch movies were released in the late '80s. Only one Big remains standing. [12 June 2007]

A League of Their Own (1992)

By Jesse Hassenger

A League of Their Own is an engagingly old fashioned and family-friendly comedy. [19 April 2004]

Riding in Cars With Boys (2001)

By Cynthia Fuchs

In 'Riding in Cars', Barrymore plays to her strengths -- her ability to seem at once disarmingly open, as well as poised, ironic, and above all, delighted to be living her life. [1 January 1995]