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  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...

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• Issue 013

  

  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...

  by Jaime Wolf +

• News

  

  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...

  by Mark Peters +

• Issue 012

  

  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...

  by Michaelangelo Matos +

• Issue 012

  

  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."

  by Anne Trubek +

• Issue 011

  

  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."

  by Adam Spangler +

• Business

  

  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."

  by William Bostwick 2

• Issue 010

  

  Mark Peters on Eggcorns

  If you saw Blades of Glory last year, you may have chuckled when Will Ferrell used the word "mind-bottling," which he defined as "when your...

  by Mark Peters, Kim Scafuro +

• Issue 010

  

  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."

  by Chris Ladd, Kim Scafuro +

• Issue 009

  

  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.

  by Matt Barone 1

• Issue 009

  

  Ligaya Mishan on Speakeasy Restaurants

  Secret restaurants helmed by untrained, self-taught chefs celebrate a democratic, D.I.Y. ethic.

  by Ligaya Mishan +

• Issue 008

  

  Michaelangelo Matos on the Sophomore Slump

  "If such a thing as the slump exists–and everyone seems to agree it does–it's worth examining why."

  by Michaelangelo Matos, Ryan Thacker +

• Issue 008

  

  Jaime Wolf on Mumblecore

  Mumblecore-the label attached to the current wave of lo-fi, micro-budget American indie films about 20-somethings-is a somewhat misleading...

  by Aung Moe Win, Ryan Thacker +

• Issue 007

  

  Mark Peters on the Colbert Suffix

  Mark Peters on the Colbert suffix.

  by Mark Peters, Jenny Mörtsell 1

• Issue 007

  

  Rita Flórez on Why Zines Won’t Die

  Rita Flórez on the unique appeal of D.I.Y. publications in the age of blogs.

  by Rita Flórez, Jenny Mörtsell +

• Issue 007

  

  Anne Trubek on the Allure of Collecting Hypermodern Literature

  Anne Trubek on the allure of collecting hypermodern literature.

  by Anne Trubek, Jenny Mörtsell +

• Issue 006

  

  Michaelangelo Matos on Magazine Archives

  Michaelangelo Matos on Magazine Archives

  by Michaelangelo Matos, Matthew Hollister +

• Issue 006

  

  Matthew Dessem on the Ancient Art of List Making

  Matthew Dessem on the Ancient Art of List Making

  by Matthew Dessem, Matthew Hollister +