Recent Columns

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Tuesday, September 22 2009

Brazilian Funk and Cuban Soul Heat Up the Northern Climes

By Derek Beres

A killer samba beat and an irresistible Cuban Sway: Brazil's futuristic Otto and Cuban expat Alex Cuba deliver soulful sounds.

(more Global Beat Fusion)

Monday, September 21 2009

Horrifyingly Close to Reality

By Marco Lanzagorta

Western culture’s perspective of torture is complex and paradoxical; it's considered immoral, illegal, primitive, and indecent, yet it's shocking to see that torture methods continue to be used in the interrogation of prisoners of war.

(more Dread Reckoning)

Friday, September 18 2009

Comic Re-Imagining

By Shaun Huston

Not all comic book adaptations are created equal, especially not when comparing our own imaginings with what actually happens when books are moved from print to screen.

(more Worlds in Panels)

Thursday, September 17 2009

Football v. Football: the NFL v. the Premiership

By Michael Brett

Like US football, English soccer fans observe their own ritual every weekend. I spent a weekend with fans of both sports to get a taste of exactly what drives and defines these most profitable of cultural endeavors.

(more The Rockist)

The Art of Atmosphere: From Bioshock to Wolfenstein

By G. Christopher Williams

Williams considers how the release of Bioshock has affected the way that apprehension and terror are evoked through the little details in video games.

(more Moving Pixels)

Wednesday, September 16 2009

Jazz Cellist Peggy Lee’s ‘Fever’

By Will Layman

Peggy Lee—the cellist, not the late singer—is nevertheless all about singing of a sort. She talks to PopMatters about creativity and collaboration in the beautiful city of Vancouver.

(more Jazz Today)

Tuesday, September 15 2009

Captain Obama and the Final Frontier

By George Reisch

Obama's four-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new kinds of political confusion; to boldly go where no rational health-care reformer has gone before.

(more Pop Goes Philosophy)

Monday, September 14 2009

Deconstructing the Clap

By Bill Reagan

Rock music is the only art form that invites amateurs to perform along with the professionals – like an oversize version of Kumbaya -- and with predictable results.

(more Rabble Without a Cause)

Sunday, September 13 2009

Over the Line: On Sports’ “Irritable Reaching”

By Tobias Peterson

As the controversy surrounding Semenya Caster demonstrates, the sports world -- filled with statistics, measurements, and results -- is by its very nature fundamentally at odds with the chaos that surrounds it.

(more From the Cheap Seats)

Friday, September 11 2009

She and I: A Fugue

By Michael Antman

Slapping the word 'Fiction' on the cover of a book is not a "get out of jail free" card or, more accurately, a license to kill – just because memoirs have to be true, it doesn’t follow that novels should be allowed to be false.

(more Read Only Memory)

Thursday, September 10 2009

Does Late Night TV Still Matter? Part 1

By Michael Brett

With the greatest shake-up in network late-night television since King Carson left his throne, now is a perfect time to ponder where late-night television is today.

(more The Rockist)

Jewish is Coolish…At Last!

By Meta Wagner

My people can finally emerge from behind their nebbishy personas to assume their proper place in the coolness pantheon.

(more Vox Pop)

Wednesday, September 9 2009

Digital Downsizing: CD to MP3 the Hard Way

By Glenn McDonald

When paring down your music collection, is it OK to prune songs off classic albums? An aesthetic (and moral) dilemma...

(more PopShots)

Tuesday, September 8 2009

A Beatnik Tuna (Fish)

By Chris Justice

Charlie the Tuna fish is an homage to the Beat generation’s playfulness and experimentation with language.

(more The Tackle Box)

Louisiana Woman, Texas Troubadour

By Juli Thanki

Need more duets in your life? Loretta Lynn and Ernest Tubb are among country music's best partnerships.

(more Torch & Twang)

Friday, September 4 2009

Ride This Time Machine Down a Road Less Traveled

By Mark Reynolds

Jump into that ’59 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz with the maxed-out tailfins, contemplate what an original Barbie doll could fetch on eBay, and enjoy this roll call of Reasons Why Everything Changed in 1959.

(more Negritude 2.0)

Thursday, September 3 2009

Drunk and Driven

By Michael Brett

Delilah's on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago is everything The Rockist wants in a bar. Loud. Comfortable. Cheap.

(more The Rockist)

Buster Keaton: The Sound of His Obsession

By Michael Barrett

Bill Frisell's ambient, fuzzy, meandering guitar doodles sound like they're trying to approximate the sad stillness blowing through the corridors of Keaton's mind.

(more Canon Fodder)

Wednesday, September 2 2009

Just Eat It

By Ben Rubenstein

I'll take the wasabi potato croquettes that came with the lamb racks in the "Sheep in Wolf's Clothing" dish (inspired by TV on the Radio's "Wolf Like Me") over Hard Rock's seasoned fries any day.

(more Mixtape Confessions)

Not to be Silenced: To Kill a Mockingbird

By Jennifer Makowsky

'To Kill a Mockingbird' is more than an enlightening tale of the racial inadequacies in the South during the Depression -- it inspired people to study law.

(more The Box Office Belletrist)

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