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Music for the Recession

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  • on March 2, 2009 at 9:20 am

Music for the Recession

Chuck Eddy on why there isn’t a modern soundtrack to our economic woes.

When American Graffiti, revolving around a 1962 radio station’s “oldies weekend,” hit theaters in 1973, the pop hits of the 1950s—all newer then than the first Beastie Boys album is now—seemed ancient, as if dropped from some alternate universe. But over the past quarter-century, as songs of the 20th century’s early decades have rematerialized first on vinyl reissues, and then on CD box…

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Jaime Wolf on Filmmaker Chris Marker

  • Posted by: Jaime Wolf
  • on December 4, 2008 at 5:53 pm

Jaime Wolf on Filmmaker Chris Marker

“May you live in interesting times,” that sly curse, reputed to come from ancient China, is actually apocryphal, no more Chinese than the fortune cookies it shows up in; than Robert Kennedy, who quoted it in a 1966 speech at Cape Town University; or than Chris Marker, the elusive French filmmaker who.. Read & Discuss
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Mark Peters on War Slang

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  • on November 4, 2008 at 1:58 pm

Mark Peters on War Slang

A recent recruiting commercial for the Army says, “There is a type of strength that doesn’t require words.” Now, I’m in no position to question any aspect of soldier strength (my biggest daily challenges are dictionary-flipping, sentence-making, editor-harassing, and coffee-slurping), but as a confirmed.. Read & Discuss
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Michelangelo Matos on Going Forward into the Past

  • Posted by: Michaelangelo Matos
  • on September 30, 2008 at 6:55 pm

Michelangelo Matos on Going Forward into the Past

To trace the story of pop music’s use of nostalgia is, in some ways, to trace the story of pop music. Of course all musicians recycle what came before by remaking it, reimagining it, or sampling it. Take Amy Winehouse: no major contemporary artist relies more heavily on retro style, both visually and.. Read & Discuss
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Stop Teaching Catcher in the Rye

  • Posted by: Anne Trubek
  • on August 13, 2008 at 8:53 pm

Stop Teaching Catcher in the Rye

"Sure, J.D. Salinger’s novel was edgy and controversial when teachers first put it on their syllabi. But that was 50 years ago." Read & Discuss
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Adam Spangler on 21st-century Jazz

  • Posted by: Adam Spangler
  • on June 4, 2008 at 9:41 pm

Adam Spangler on 21st-century Jazz

"It’s not jazz that is dying—clearly there are musicians worth seeing, producing music worth buying—it’s the audience that’s on life support." Read & Discuss
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William Bostwick on the Life and Death of Green Design

  • Posted by: William Bostwick
  • on June 4, 2008 at 9:10 pm

William Bostwick on the Life and Death of Green Design

"Renzo Piano's New York Times building in midtown Manhattan is a thousand-foot-tall middle finger to the eco-design establishment." Read & Discuss
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Mark Peters on Eggcorns

  • Posted by: Mark Peters , KimScafuro
  • on March 18, 2008 at 1:54 am

Mark Peters on Eggcorns

"Mind-bottling," "jar-dropping," and "lame-man's terms" are all eggcorns—a type of common and somewhat logical language goof named after a misspelling of "acorn." Read & Discuss
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Chris Ladd on Consumer Justice Online

  • Posted by: Chris Ladd , KimScafuro
  • on March 18, 2008 at 1:02 am

Chris Ladd on Consumer Justice Online

"Getting screwed by large corporations is a kind of street battle, with the companies bringing guns to what you thought was a knife fight." Read & Discuss
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Matt Barone on Handheld Horror Movies

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  • on February 11, 2008 at 11:46 pm

Matt Barone on Handheld Horror Movies

[i]Cloverfield[/i] is only the latest movie made with this infrequently employed but truly terrifying approach to onscreen horror. Read & Discuss
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