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Wednesday, February 21 2007

Shallow Graves

By Michael Patrick Brady

Martin Scorsese's hotly tipped Oscar fave, The Departed, plumbs the depths of the psychological and sociological motives of violence, loyalty, and duty.

Pretty Surfaces, Sharp Edges: An Interview With Wet Confetti

By Jennifer Kelly

Wet Confetti's Alberta Poon fronts a three-person band that's drawing comparisons to Delta 5, X-Ray Spex, and the Au Pairs. Funny, though, she says she and her two band-mates never heard of post-punk until after they started making music.

Tuesday, February 20 2007

Dixie-chicked

By Cynthia Fuchs

Introducing the Chicks' Grammys performance, Joan Baez called them "three brave women who are still 'not ready to make nice.'" It may be the long way, but it's the right way too.

Bright Eyes: In Defense of Preciousness

By Sarah Feldman

Despite all the self-absorption, and directly in spite of criticisms about the brittle timber of Conor Oberst's much commented on voice, Feldman lays her love for Bright Eyes out in public to defend the mysterious power of the hope that slips through the cracks in Bright Eyes' usually gloomy demeanor.

Monday, February 19 2007

From Love Songs to the Fake Mafia: An Interview with the Queers

By Matthew A. Stern

After 25 years, Joe Queer has opinions on sex, death, and, more important, punk, but he knows to keep it all in perspective with a sense of humor.

The Redemption of Daphne Rubin-Vega

By Christian John Wikane

On her new album, Redemption Songs, Broadway star Daphne Rubin-Vega provides the antidote to the 24-hour cycle of bad news that framed our worldview in 2006, a collection of songs that stirs the soul and feeds the spirit.

Friday, February 16 2007

Electric Light Orchestra: Too Much at Once Can Blow the Fuse

By Rob Horning

Alone, ELO's pop mini-symphonies are perfect confections that captivate with their careful sonic details and ear-pleasing melodies and hooks.

The Fast and the Curious

By Chip Compton

Media Darling Danica Patrick may never take the checkered flag. But does that matter?

Thursday, February 15 2007

Permission to Follow: Interview with Juliet McMains

By Nona Willis-Aronowitz

PopMatters talks to dancer and author Juliet McMains about how the forces driving DanceSport mirror American national identity: desire for both passionate abandon and steadfast rules, obsession with self-improvement and comfortable gender roles, and craving for a little thing called Glamour.

Wednesday, February 14 2007

Love and Frogs: Dating John Waters

By Michael Franco

The unique filmmaker talks about his sweet compilation, his extreme romantic tastes, and the definitive way to divorce.

Tuesday, February 13 2007

A Culture’s Sad Finale?

By Howard Reich

It won't be long now -- maybe just months -- before we know if the glorious swamp culture of New Orleans has been washed away for good.

The Kink Continuum

By Claire Litton

When Jason Fortuny baited BSDM fetishists on Craigslist, he exposed their personal information -- and our society's rampant sexual hypocrisy.

Monday, February 12 2007

Race for the Super Bowl

By Neal Hayes

Tony Dungy's win in Miami was definitely a major event, but a quick look at Super Bowl history shows that the NFL, with its long-disparaging race record, is still far from a level playing field.

Prince of the Ball

By Jarrett Berman

When His Majesty stood silhouetted against a billowing, yellow sheet, his phallic glyph guitar lunging into shadow, it was a bold display of virility that had many (including execs at Viagra, no doubt) shaking their heads in awe. I turned to my wife and checked her pulse. The night had reached its apex.

Peyton Manning, Tony Dungy, and the Importance of Winning It All

By Ross McGowan

Did the Colts' Super Bowl win actually change who Peyton Manning and Tony Dungy are? Or did it just change the perceptions of who they are in the eyes of armchair quarterbacks everywhere?

Sunday, February 11 2007

Dirty Faces

By Jennifer Kelly

Grimy, blue-collar rock and roll... or is it? Dirty Faces' Get Right with God would be the most intense and powerful straight rock record of the year. That is, if it really were a straight rock record.

Super Bowl XLI: Prince(s), Winners, and Heirs Apparent

Edited by Tobias Peterson

We came, we saw, we snacked. From the princes on the field to the Prince on stage, PopMatters' writers present the ultimate postgame analysis of this year's ultimate game in this three-piece special section.

Friday, February 9 2007

From the Inside, Looking Out

By Brian Holcomb

Holcomb speaks with writer-director Djinn, director of Perth. Djinn hails from Singapore, a small nation of avid movie goers who, like their film industry and their country, says Djinn, are 'always looking outward.'

Thursday, February 8 2007

The Terrorists of Our Imagination Aren’t Muslims… They’re Us

By Anneli Rufus

Terrorism is now the stuff of fiction, as a glance at the best-seller lists will attest. But while Islamic plotters make the headlines, the terrorists we find on the bookshelves live in our own backyard.

All Stones Unturned

By Tony Sclafani and Jason Gross

PopMatters hunts for gems in the Rolling Stones' unreleased 1960s recordings.

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