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Books Allen Ginsberg: The Politics of Ecstasy By Tobias Peterson [28.Sep.07] :. Ginsberg had an eye that took in a world full of lovers and low-lifes -- each, for him, was a song waiting to be sung.

Sports Can 50,000 Football Fans Be Wrong? By Kevin Pearson [28.Sep.07] :. A 'new democracy' is one way to describe MyFootballClub — no other team has ever been run via Internet voting alone — yet fan-powered schemes have secured control for supporters at countless sporting clubs.

Music Spontaneous and Passionate Invention By Daniel McClure [27.Sep.07] :. Ornette Coleman's free jazz was an American variant on the means and methods of Europe's Situationists.

Kenny Roby [Raleigh, NC] By Mark W. Adams [27.Sep.07] :. It would be easy to assume that every decent-sized town has their own version of Raleigh, North Carolina's Kenny Roby -- a hard-working singer-songwriter and an engaging performer. But Roby is the cut above.

Multimedia Rethinking Halo By Andrea Tallarita [26.Sep.07] :. The man in the mask, and the mask of those who built him: Halo and Microsoft's crisis of identity.

Music She’s Here Again: An Interview With Thelma Houston By Christian John Wikane [25.Sep.07] :. Nearly two decades after her last album, Thelma Houston answers the inevitable question: "Where has she been?"

Music Goodbye Guitar Town: An Interview with Steve Earle By Michael Franco [24.Sep.07] :. Steve Earle might be quieting down, but he still has plenty to say. PopMatters talks with Earle about his new album, New York and much more.

Music The Mysterious Mr Wheeler: An Interview with Ash By Robert Collins [24.Sep.07] :. He's spearheaded one of Britain’s greatest bands for over a decade. So why can’t we figure out what makes Ash’s Tim Wheeler special?

Music The Exact Wrong Person: An Interview with Michelle Shocked By Chris Catania [21.Sep.07] :. Michelle Shocked attempts to meld her politics, her religion, and her art while taking the scorn and criticism.

TV Ken Burns’ Arithmetic of War: ‘The War’ Premieres Tonight By Cynthia Fuchs [21.Sep.07] :. To its credit, The War considers the terrible effects of difference. But even as it argues that representations can make differences, it also exemplifies how limited vision can reinforce them.

Film Avante-garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928-1954 By Michael Barrett [21.Sep.07] :. Kino's second avant-garde film set showcases a few major pieces (such as Isou's Venom and Eternity) and some tantalizing minor works from major names (such as Broughton's The Potted Psalm).

Multimedia Super Columbine Massacre RPG!: Can a Historic Event Be Examined Seriously By a Video Game? By G. Christopher Williams [20.Sep.07] :. Unlike more passive forms of art that largely require the participation of viewers as interpreters and observers of their subject matter, video games raise thorny questions about "viewing" content, since the action of a player is more directly participatory for the audience.

Music Country's Top 100: All-Time Best Songs By Shirley Jinkins and Malcolm Mayhew [20.Sep.07] :. Here's a tribute to all of those artists and the many others who shaped country music -- a list of the 100 best country songs of all time. Today: 20-1...

Music “Not Because I’m Conscious”: An Interview with Talib Kweli By Steven J. Horowitz [19.Sep.07] :. The rapper says, "I just try to write songs," but he's tackling difficult subjects while trying to launch a business.

Books Celebrating Bogie By John Carvill [18.Sep.07] :. Film historian Richard Schickel fails to pay tribute to Bogie in a recent book. PopMatters' John Carvill takes matters into his own hands.

Music “They Can’t Write You and Me”: An Intimate Chat with Kevin Drew By Evan Sawdey [17.Sep.07] :. The Broken Social Scene founder has made his own bed, but just because he's lying in it doesn't mean he can sleep.

Film China’s Generation Gap By Rebecca Chang [14.Sep.07] :. Directors Zhang Yimou and Jia Zhangke's differences aren't just commercial, nor even merely stylistic: as '5th' and '6th' generation filmmakers, respectively, their competing visions are about national representation -- and what can stand up against Hollywood popularity.

Music The Brutal Truth at Last: An Interview with Reid Paley By Jennifer Kelly [14.Sep.07] :. One of America's best -- and most underrated -- songwriters talks about life, liquor, Pittsburgh, and what it's like to write songs with Frank Black.

TV The Practice Makes Perfect—Well, Almost By Quentin B. Huff [13.Sep.07] :. What do you call four lawyers, a secretary, and a couple of prosecutors? I call it the best thing since Clarence Darrow.

TV MTV Killed the Video Star: The MTV Video Music Awards By Terry Sawyer [12.Sep.07] :. The overall effect from watching this year's MTV VMAs was club drug vertigo -- but with none of the fun of the club or the drugs.

Reg King: Reg King By Doug Sheppard [12.Sep.07] :. One of the great lost '60s pop and soul also-rans, Reg King's only solo album is a murky snapshot of the dissolution of musical promise as an industry rolled on by, but remains a rawly emotional experience.

Music Still Howling: An Interview With Neil Michael Hagerty By Jennifer Kelly [11.Sep.07] :. From the diesel-fueled abandon of Pussy Galore through the trance inducing blues-rock of Royal Trux to Howling Hex, Neil Michael Hagerty has plumbed the mind-changing properties of psychedelic repetition.

TV The Comebacks, The Cut-Ups, and All Cut Too Short: The 2007 VMAs By Evan Sawdey [11.Sep.07] :. Isn't it ironic how the 2007 installment of MTV's celebration of music videos was, in fact, a telling death knell for music videos?

Music Journey to the Core of Chaka Khan: The Interview By Christian John Wikane [10.Sep.07] :. On the eve of Funk This, Chaka Khan raps with PopMatters on Joni, Jimi, and her "super life" journey.

Music Notes from the Underground: An Interview with Viva Voce By Robert Collins [10.Sep.07] :. Husband and wife team duo Viva Voce aren’t the new White Stripes. No one in this family will be writing songs for Coca Cola any time soon.

Film The PopMatters Fall 2007 Movie Preview By Bill Gibron [7.Sep.07] :. In December, fantasy will battle fact, the past will reach into the present, and as one upcoming title suggests, there will be blood... lots and lots of blood. Here is the last of what awaits us in darkened theatres this season.

Fall 2007 Television Preview By Jamie Gumbrecht [7.Sep.07] :. Maureen Ryan offers up three takes on the new TV season: a prime-time primer on the new fall shows, a look at few of fall's TV trends in the form of nerds and rich people, and how to build the perfect TV show.

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