Culture
But is it any good?
Paul Tassi at “Forbes” notes an important pop-culture milestone being reached: This week we got a look six years into the future of The Walking Dead, a timeline after the death (well, disappearance) …
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Nothing Compares to Insh’allah
An artist formerly known as Sinead O’Connor becomes a Peace* Symbol: Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has revealed she has renounced Catholicism and converted to Islam, taking the new name “Shuhada’ …
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Star Wars vs Troll Wars
Does a movie really suck or is it all just a big Russian conspiracy? Don’t ask me – I haven’t watched any of the new Disney “Star Wars” franchise movies …
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Happy 70,000,058th birthday, the Flintstones!
On September 30, 1960, at 8:30 PM, ABC network aired the first episode of Hanna-Barbera-produced “The Flintstones”. The late broadcast hour was a recognition that initially “The Flintstones” were made …
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What do metalheads and Papuans have in common?
A lot apparently, according to an anthropologist: Heavy metal fans have evolved to communicate with each other like remote tribes in Papua New Guinea, a study by anthropologists has found. …
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Christian Devil’s Music
A much maligned music genre has a long history and an interesting present: In 1972, when Larry Norman was still feeling optimistic about his musical career, he set out on …
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Equality of nudity
Brit ladies and gentlemen will now have the equal opportunity to perv on Renaissance babes and hunks, thanks to the equalitarian initiative by the UK’s premier art institution: The Royal …
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One small step for man, one step too far for Hollywood
There are still some nutters (mostly harmless) out there who think that the moon landing in 1969 was faked by NASA in collaboration with Hollywood, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. …
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Fighting racist stereotypes with gangsta rap
I don’t know how well thought out this strategy is: The video for KUDZAI’s 4 Deep In The Suburbs starts off menacingly — a police siren wails, and four figures …
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Ramsey Bolton becomes a Polish pilot
For the sake of the movie I hope that Iwan Rheon who played the arch-bastard (literally and metaphorically) Ramsey Bolton in “Game of Thrones” is good enough actor to go …
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Elba. Idris Elba.
Maybe, maybe not: British actor Idris Elba is stoking speculation he may take over the role of James Bond when Daniel Craig steps aside, offering an enigmatic Twitter post that fueled the buzz about him becoming …
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Resuscitating Oscars one bad decision at a time
I haven’t watched Oscars in probably twenty years, and looking at the declining TV ratings neither have many other people. The Academy has now come up with proposals to make its …
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The Unbearable Likeness of Winnie the Pooh
In the United States you have the right to bear arms; in China you don’t have the right to bear resemblance to its President: For only the second time this year, …
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The right is the new punk, the German edition
i confess to guiltily liking heavy music from Germany, from Rammstein, which is just nasty, to In Extremo, which combines thumping guitars with bagpipes and draws from varied sources, including …
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Hollywood: where men want you and women hate you
An interesting interview with the ageless Jennifer Aniston in the latest “In Style” magazine, which touches on the interpersonal culture of the movie industry and the battle of the sexes …
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