Recent Columns

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Monday, October 26 2009

Health Care in America has Gone to the Dogs

By Meta Wagner

Compared to the modern-day American, their dogs have the best of everything: questionable intelligence (i.e., happiness), poor memories (i.e., forgiveness), and low expectations (i.e., contentment).

(more Vox Pop)

Friday, October 23 2009

The Name of This Land is Hell: Mexico in Literature

By Rodger Jacobs

When the author of a sitcom-styled novel about Mexican heritage cannot resist mentioning the modern-day carnage, then it's fair to assume that the murders have become a significant part of the national identity.

(more Deconstruction Zone)

Thursday, October 22 2009

The ‘Ol Crotchety One Kicks It Transatlantic Style

By Michael Brett

PopMatters sends its weekly culture columnist abroad, with hopefully a one-way ticket.

(more The Rockist)

Is there Virtue in Virtuosity?

By Will Layman

Two recent releases by leading saxophonists Chris Potter and James Carter raise the question of the utility—or the misuses—of virtuosity in jazz.

(more Jazz Today)

Wednesday, October 21 2009

Bluegrass Grows in Brooklyn

By Derek Beres

The Five Deadly Venoms are leading the charge of a thriving bluegrass scene in Brooklyn.

(more Global Beat Fusion)

Tuesday, October 20 2009

Pete Kelly’s Blues

By Kit MacFarlane

Jack Webb's glum radio series 'Pete Kelly's Blues' is a sigh of a tribute to the roaring '20s, a melancholic parade of blistering jazz and the pointlessness of its own nostalgia.

(more Retro Remote)

Monday, October 19 2009

Nobody Puts Twitter in a Curation Corner

By Liz Colville

Twitter has fast become a land of curators. But where does curation go from here, and do we really want it to go there?

(more Backslash)

Friday, October 16 2009

Looking for the Lost: Memoirs of a Vanishing Japan

By Michael Antman

With its narrow streets and dark and hidden infoldings, there’s a distinctly feminine, mysterious, and inexplicably magnetic aspect to Japan that exists in few other places in the world.

(more Read Only Memory)

Thursday, October 15 2009

Sitting on the Mountaintop

By Michael Abernethy

Did Obama calm the rash of criticism regarding his inaction on gay rights with his recent speech to the Human Rights Campaign?

(more Queer, Isn't It?)

Wednesday, October 14 2009

Castle Walls of Blood and Bone: An Interview with Converge

By Adrien Begrand

With four landmark albums this decade alone, Converge has saved its best work for last. Vocalist Jacob Bannon talks with PopMatters about his music, his art, and his insanely talented band.

(more Blood and Thunder)

Tuesday, October 13 2009

Are Comics Like Reading with Training Wheels?

By Shaun Huston

Reading a comic requires multiple forms of literacy and levels of interpretation. Every movement from word to image and back again so as to create a coherent, narrative whole engages the reader’s brain in distinct ways.

(more Worlds in Panels)

Monday, October 12 2009

The Messengers

By Quentin B. Huff

K'naan's The Messengers series is a trilogy of episodes designed to highlight the genius of Nigeria's Fela Kuti, Jamaica's Bob Marley, and the United States' Bob Dylan.

(more Busted Headphones)

Friday, October 9 2009

Twitterpated: New Media, Old Frenzies

By Tobias Peterson

The latest craze in mini-blogging has been embraced by a variety of pro athletes to voice their opinions on everything from coaching advice to domestic violence.

(more From the Cheap Seats)

Does Late Night TV Still Matter? Part 2

By Michael Brett

Jimmy Fallon's Late Night will be a much more goofy, pop-culture centric, spontaneous affair than either his predecessors.

(more The Rockist)

Thursday, October 8 2009

New Kids on the Block: Hangin’ Tough, Refusing to Let Go

By Monte Williams

In 1989, I loathed the New Kids on the Block with a passion and intensity that only junior high-aged children can bring to their study of popular culture, yet when Hangin’ Tough Live hit DVD, I had to see it.

(more Lowbrow Literati)

Wednesday, October 7 2009

Rosanne Cash on Johnny Cash’s List

By Juli Thanki

Johnny Cash was a serious scholar of music, and this knowledge was reflected in his own work, which included covers of everyone and everything from Jimmie Rodgers to Nine Inch Nails, oldtime hymns to reggae.

(more Torch & Twang)

Tuesday, October 6 2009

Tools for the Job: Asserting Femininity in Super Metroid

By L.B. Jeffries

Super Metroid is unique in that it is the only game in the series that addresses something distinctly female about Samus besides her looks: motherhood.

(more Moving Pixels)

Monday, October 5 2009

Sharing: The New Imposition

By Rob Horning

Twitter is less about disseminating information than it is about subjects trying to make themselves feel more real, ontologically speaking, in a increasingly mediated world.

(more Marginal Utility)

Friday, October 2 2009

On the Sixth Day God Created Man…Chester: Part Three

By Iain Ellis

Manchester's working class population showed the world that trade unions can resist authority. Such solidarity and class consciousness is heard in the arrogant sneers of the Stone Roses and Oasis.

(more Alternative Rock Cultures)

Thursday, October 1 2009

They Came From Detroit

By Michael Brett

From Marshall Crenshaw looking spiffy in a powder gray suit with matching fedora to ... Carnival Cruise ship reggae?

(more The Rockist)

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