Recent Columns

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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)

Tuesday, September 1 2009

He’s Just Not That Into Anyone

By Jennifer Byrne

Asexuals, also known as “aces”, have begun to assert their place as a valid and healthy sexual orientation; even SpongeBob is in on the (lack of) action.

(more Pop Osmosis)

Monday, August 31 2009

The (Indie) Music Industry Is All Right

By Liz Colville

The media is too preoccupied with the funeral arrangements of the mainstream music industry to celebrate the life that is happening elsewhere.

(more Backslash)

Friday, August 28 2009

Rabid and Rascally Creatures: Richard Brookhiser’s “Happy Darkies”

By Rodger Jacobs

Familial or political, conservatives in America actually have no moral boundaries whatsoever.

(more Deconstruction Zone)

Thursday, August 27 2009

Dear Mr. Denby: In Defense of Inglourious Basterds

By Michael Brett

Quentin Tarantino drives critics nuts because he loves movies. 'New Yorker' critic David Denby drives The Rockist nuts because he hates movies.

(more The Rockist)

All in the Family: Gloria Sings the Blues

By Kit MacFarlane

Where a thousand stone-faced social dramas have despaired over the decay of interpersonal relations and marital unity, this is the interpersonal angst of an Ingmar Bergman movie saved by a sitcom ending and a live studio audience.

(more Retro Remote)

Wednesday, August 26 2009

G.I. Joe’s Future Hangs on the Unbalanced

By Monte Williams

The fate of 'The Rise of Cobra' (both the toys and the movie) might depend on something completely out of Hasbro’s control: nostalgia.

(more Lowbrow Literati)

Tuva Meets Technology

By Derek Beres

From the ‘non-existent’ land of Siberia comes the long-existing sound of Tuvan drumming and throat singing.

(more Global Beat Fusion)

Tuesday, August 25 2009

Maxwell and the Soul of Neo Soul

By Roland Laird

If Dr. Martin Luther King composed songs they may very well sound like Maxwell at his best.

(more Write Black at You)

Monday, August 24 2009

Emmy Nominations / Emmy Abominations

By Matt Mazur

And the nominees for Best 'White' Actress on Television are… the exact same group of women who are nominated every single year by the unimaginative voting bloc.

(more Suffragette City)

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