Recent Culture Features

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Monday, February 11 2008

No Punk Left Behind

By Rebecca Skulnick Cohen

How dissent is sustained in the face of consumerism and co-optation in Bloomington, Indiana, a quintessential midwestern college town.

Wednesday, February 6 2008

Plough Shares: Gardening’s Radical Edge

By Olly Zanetti

Can political activism be achieved with a trowel and some bulbs? For Guerrilla Gardeners, the act of urban planting is more than beautification, it's a reclamation of public space that challenges concepts of municipal ownership.

Friday, October 26 2007

Teenage Wasteland

By Paul Caine

A night in a police cruiser in a typical American college town reveals the cumulative effects of suburban boredom.

Monday, August 27 2007

Wyndham Lewis: The Irascible Enemy

By D.M. Edwards

Wyndham Lewis brought a scintillating intellect to his artistic endeavors. If only we could let him loose on the majority culture of our time.

Friday, July 27 2007

Confidence Games on Canal Street

By Vince Carducci

Consumers of counterfeit branded products may be dupes or they may be shrewd shoppers, but they are also communicators; people who demonstrate literacy in the meanings attached to certain symbols in the marketplace both of goods and ideas.

Tuesday, July 24 2007

The Transformation of Generation X

By Charles Moss

The fascination with the shape-shifting toy may have something to do with a metamorphosis this nostalgic cohort wants to forestall -- the change to adulthood.

Monday, July 23 2007

Carrying the Water: On Michael Eric Dyson

By Mark Anthony Neal

It is Dyson’s ability to make himself and his work accessible to lay audiences -- ironically much like grassroots activists -- that makes him a target for those folk within the academy and elsewhere, who don’t believe that his work is rigorous enough.

Thursday, June 14 2007

How America’s Most Renowned Improv Club Stays Second to None

By Sid Smith

Recently, Second City unveiled "Between Barack and a Hard Place" and then sat back stunned by what the gods of sketch comedy had wrought: rave reviews; talk about how the troupe is rediscovering its political edge; and box-office business like nothing the club had seen in some time.

Wednesday, June 6 2007

The Night After the Poker Party

By Evan J. Mandery

Online poker playing is one part skill, one part chance -- and one part gambling. Some players want unrestricted access to real payoffs, no matter if they'll likely lose more than they'll win.

Thursday, May 10 2007

Electric Litigationland

By Michael E. Ross

The lucrative marketing of Jimi Hendrix's image has spawned a series of lawsuits and possibly a reality show.

Tuesday, April 17 2007

Nine Wives

By Claire Litton

In the modern day, much like the archaic harems, there is no better way to show off a wealthy and important man than to show him surrounded by subservient women: observe James Bond or 50 Cent.

Friday, April 13 2007

Don Imus: The Character of the Content

By David Swerdlick

It would be easy to "get over" a disparaging remark about one’s race or gender (or religion or sexual orientation) if one could confidently believe that one's thus ridiculed identity would never be the cause of denied fair treatment, or extended common courtesy, in society at large.

Friday, March 30 2007

The Death of Jean Baudrillard Did Not Take Place

By G. Christopher Williams

The controversial French philosopher's legacy has been tarnished by reductionist readings of his work, generated precisely by the tendencies of the mass media he sought to illuminate.

Wednesday, March 28 2007

Ave Anna: Anna Nicole Smith and Celebrity Culture

By William Carl Ferleman

Lost in the media's sensationalizing of Anna Nicole Smith was any sense of the human being behind the myth.

Monday, March 5 2007

Not Such a Merry Dance

By Ross Palmer

Should it matter that Simone Clarke, a ballerina for the English National Ballet, is also a member of the far-right, anti-immigrant British National Party?

Thursday, March 1 2007

The Rise of Christian Fascism and Its Threat to American Democracy

By Chris Hedges

We must attend to growing social and economic inequities in order to stop the most dangerous mass movement in American history -- or face a future of fascism under the guise of Christian values.

Sunday, February 25 2007

Sorting Out Farrakhan’s Legacy

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Farrakhan has been both vilified as an anti-Semite and also deified for championing the interests of the black poor.

Tuesday, February 13 2007

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.

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.

Wednesday, February 7 2007

Salon Language

By Francis Raven

Communicating aesthetic ideals and desires is daunting, even for artists. When you’re not the artist, it's even more difficult. But this is exactly the predicament in the hair salon.

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