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:. PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2009
:. Paranormal Passions: An Interview with the Ghost Hunters

Columns
Pop Osmosis: Farmville: Fetch Me My Manure Boots
From the Cheap Seats: Seeing Stars (Suffer Brain Injuries)

Blogs
Mixed Media: John Lennon: 9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980
Channel Surfing: Top Chef Oddsmakers
Notes from the Road: Dogtooth by Yorgos Lanthimos: 29.Nov.09 - Brighton, UK
Moving Pixels: Gauging Load Times in Games
Consuming Consumables: AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa
Short Ends and Leader: Critical Confessions: Part 19 - Top Ten-tative
Marginal Utility: MySpace’s Demise
Sound Affects: Verse-Chorus-Verse: An Interview with Diane Birch
Graphically Speaking: The Sociology of Superheroes: Andi Ewington and 45

Music
:. Clipse: Til the Casket Drops
:. Brett Anderson: Slow Attack
:. Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revolution
:. Shafiq Husayn: Shafiq En A-Free-Ka
:. Dufus: In Monstrous Attitude
:. Eric Roberson: Music Fan First

Events
:. Dethklok + Mastodon: 12 November 2009 - Houston, TX

Film
:. Me and Orson Welles

DVDs
:. Imagine That
:. Bootleg Film

Books
:. The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell
:. Free for All by Kenneth Turan, Joseph Papp

Comics
:. Hot Potatoe

News
:. INTERVIEW:Arctic Monkeys take new path
:. The iPhone’s online identity crisis
:. ‘Public Enemies’ a good, but not great, effort by director Michael Mann

Reviews

Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

By Cynthia Fuchs

Lee Atwater is remembered as brilliant or shameful, effective or destructive, his life part American Dream, part horror movie. [15 October 2008]

One More Dead Fish (2005)

By Kate Williams

This documentary's portraits of Nova Scotia fishermen show that the tentacles of corporate power may reach far into our daily lives, but it is still within our power to raise our voices and affect change. [19 November 2006]