Recent Media Features

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Friday, November 6 2009

Fast Food TV

By Ian Chant

The Next Iron Chef is not a show about cooking. It is a show about people freaking out; cooking just happens to be what they’re doing while they’re freaking out.

Thursday, July 23 2009

The Demise of Vibe Magazine and the Future of Criticism

By Mark Anthony Neal

With diminishing places for thoughtful criticism, black cultural critics exist as little more than commentators on the Obama White House. Blackness has been reduced to a news cycle.

Thursday, July 16 2009

Re-Inventing the Deal: An Interview with Michelle Shocked

By Lisa Torem

Corporate battles, homelessness, and forgiveness are routine to this "indelible" woman.

Wednesday, July 15 2009

The Phantom Speaks! An Interview with Cult Movie Critic Joe Kane

By Steven Ward

Joe Kane writes about the fun stuff on the fringes -- low budget horror movies and action movies, exploitation movies, cult movies, B movies.

Thursday, June 18 2009

The New Games Journalism

By L.B. Jeffries

The most useful moments for New Games Journalists are ones that occur in multiplayer, describing experiences that could never occur during just a general session of play.

Wednesday, April 22 2009

A Fan’s Notes: An Interview with Journalist Bob Drury

By Steven Ward

Newspaperman, magazine journo and best-selling author Bob Drury tells PopMatters about his prolific career in journalism and the path from newspapers to magazines to the New York Times best-seller list.

Friday, April 17 2009

On Evas and Angels: Postmodern Fantasy Devotion to Neon Genesis Evangelion

By Cyrus Fard

More than a decade after its debut, Neon Genesis Evangelion continues to reign as an cultural icon in Japan. Understanding how it made such a lasting impact gives us a window onto Japanese social history and fandom.

Wednesday, March 18 2009

Does Video Game Criticism Need a Pauline Kael?

By L.B. Jeffries

Kael, much like video game critics today, was faced with a massive philosophical shift in her chosen artistic medium that large quantities of critics were against.

Tuesday, March 17 2009

Smash Hits to GQ: Adventures in Magazine Writing

By Steven Ward

GQ journalist Chris Heath talks with PopMatters about music and celebrity journalism, the Pet Shop Boys and a lifetime of scribing for major magazines in the UK and the US.

Friday, January 30 2009

Calling Out Around the World: Motown Turns 50

By PopMatters Staff

PopMatters concludes our week-long celebration of Motown at 50 with Diane Leach's essay on living in the Detroit of the '80s in What It Was Like and a couple more album gems with Needles in the Haystack.

Friday, October 3 2008

The Olbermann Effect

By Susan Burris

Keith Olbermann has transformed news into entertainment. Countdown viewers no longer expect the facts; they expect to laugh and to think. Thank goodness.

Friday, July 25 2008

Surviving the Net Crunch: A Practical Guide for Print Publications in a Digital World

By Jason Gross

Forget about easy answers, and don't think that the latest hip tech craze will save: PopMatters' Jason Gross offers advice for how long-running print publications can adapt to this brave new Net-driven world.

Monday, May 14 2007

Total freedom: Interview with Bob Odenkirk

By Jesse Hicks

Derek and Simon is about two guys -- and now it's expanded to include some of their friends -- and their search for women to sleep with.

Friday, March 16 2007

The Lies They Tell: How to Stop the Fox Propaganda Machine

By Don Hazen

The "Sliming Bowl" is well under way, and Fox's influence is too big -- and too damaging -- to ignore. Can the progressive Internet media and blogosphere bring it down?

Monday, January 22 2007

What Happened to Our Voice?

By Sarah Feldman

PopMatters investigates the sad trajectory of the Village Voice after merging with the national-weekly behemoth New Times Media.

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