Thursday, October 20 2011
Geniuses Are People, Too
Creative geniuses don’t succeed despite their flaws, they succeed because they are flawed.
Wednesday, October 19 2011
Comics Needs Women: Why Marvel and DC Should Have Been at Geek Girl Con
There is goodwill to be spent and good faith conversations to be had about the place of women and female characters in the DC and Marvel universes, and an event like Geek Girl Con is an ideal place for that kind of dialogue.
Tuesday, October 18 2011
Pavement Art: When Destruction Is as Important as Creation
While some celebrate art through its destruction, we can ponder the impetus to buy, sell, own and store art away.
Monday, October 17 2011
Old Country Comfort: How the British Might Save American Music (Again)
The British saved rock 'n' roll, reignited the blues, and may just make country music more American.
Friday, October 14 2011
Clear! Old-School Medical Drama, Stat!
A once-popular medical drama reveals how much has changed in America's health care industry -- and its television medical dramas -- and how much remains the same.
Thursday, October 13 2011
‘The Sopranos’, Dissatisfaction and The American Dream
The Sopranos' portrayal of an American family, of the dueling pursuits of physical and spiritual, questions the principles of success distributed by governments and advertisers.
Wednesday, October 12 2011
Mohawks and Korans: Taqwacores Punk Mash-up
The Taqwacore movement seizes space in the punk narrative and social fabric, which allows Muslim voices to take root and explore their own version of rebellion.
Tuesday, October 11 2011
Foreshadowing Producer Sage Scroope’s Supernatural Success
With two festival award-winning shorts, Foreshadowed Films’ co-founder Sage Scroope (The Debt Collector) just might be headed to the Oscars.
One Weekend, Thirty Geeks, Five Projects: ‘Hacking’ for a Good Cause
How a group of people hacked in to start-up culture to change the world.
Monday, October 10 2011
The Survival of the Industrial Sonic in a Deindustrialized West
In the '90s, industrial music crossed over into the mainstream with heavy guitar and massive personalities, but blue collar labor itself was disappearing...
Friday, October 7 2011
Jean-Teddy Filippe’s ‘Forbidden Files’: Found Footage Lost (and Found Again)
Oddly missing in histories of the "found footage" genre, Jean-Teddy Filippe's "Forbidden Files" offers intriguing glimpses at horror and fantasy flickering into an uneasy camcorder reality, ten years before The Blair Witch Project made it fashionable (and lame).
Thursday, October 6 2011
Country Music’s Me-First Jesus
These days, a country singer will bow down to Jesus at least once by the end of his album, even if he spent the rest of it cheatin’, mistreatin’ and fightin’. Jesus is that reliable way to feel good even if you’ve been acting bad.
Wednesday, October 5 2011
Beyond Jodie Dallas: TV’s 10 Most Important LGBT Characters
Several "best" or "favorite" LGBT TV character lists have popped up in recent years, but they don't always include the most important LGBT characters. So, we pay tribute to the ten(ish) most significant LGBT characters in US television history.
Tuesday, October 4 2011
Was Grunge the Last American Musical Revolution?
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind and Pearl Jam's Ten. In revisiting the grunge genre which altered the musical landscape two decades ago, the question arises: was this our last musical revolution?
Monday, October 3 2011
What’s the Word? With Obscure Language Like Music Speak, It’s Hard not to Feel Like a n00b
Music writers and IT guys have a lot in common – at least when it comes to their cultivated, insular jargon.
Friday, September 30 2011
Chuck Eddy Will Piss You Off with ‘Rock and Roll Always Forgets’
Buy this infuriating and brilliant book. But get it in softcover. You'll be throwing it against your wall.
Thursday, September 29 2011
The Future of Music Looks Like a Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland
I can just imagine some kind of electromagnetic pulse taking out all of the world's computers, leaving us with little more than the Ferrante and Teicher albums that litter every thrift store in the country.
Wednesday, September 28 2011
Class Conflict: Hollywood’s View of the Black College Student
These eight films portray a variety of storylines, but the “black college student” movie has not come close to fulfilling its potential.
Tuesday, September 27 2011
Just Another Pretty Woman: The Who’s Who of Hookers in Film
How did playing a prostitute or stripper become de rigeur for Hollywood actresses?
Monday, September 26 2011
The End of the World Makes Sense in ‘Bastion’
The multiple endings in Bastion all feel like natural conclusions to the story.
