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- Cracked: After Hours YouTube Channel Entertaining, goofy, but actually quite insightful source of info on pop culture.
- Current TV: That's Gay “Humorous deconstructions of gay stereotypes in media and popular culture.”
- PhD Comics Jokes on academia sorted with informative animated videos.
- Target: Women by Sarah Haskins Hilarious examples of sexist advertisements and cultural trends. The videos are now scattered, so YouTube/Google as many as you can!!
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Monthly Archives: February 2014
Culture Update 2/28/14: Pseudo Science, Trans-Parent, Boston Flick, RuPaul
Lots to cover this week: Whole Foods: Whole Lotta Nonsense? In this provocative Daily Beast article, Michael Schulson points out that while the pseudoscience behind, say, creationism or its more science-kosher avatar intelligent design, is rightly decried by educated liberals … Continue reading
Posted in Culture Updates, Music, Reviews, Science, Theatre, TV and Film
Tagged Annie Baker, Company One, Jeffrey Tambor, Pseudoscience, RuPaul, The Flick, Transparent, Whole Foods
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Culture Update 2/24/14: Academics, Coriolanus, and Capote
Some important articles and cultural considerations I’ve been mulling over for the past week or so: Kristof: Exhorting PhDs to Get Involved Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times wrote a column last week (“Professors, We Need You!”), carefully and … Continue reading
Venezuelan Crisis: Links to More Information
I looked on with frustration the first week of February, as I combed the New York Times and my usual North American news outlets for any mention of the political crisis brewing in Venezuela. I saw none. Thankfully, (or not), … Continue reading
Mini Culture Update: August: Osage County Film
The first theater review I wrote for My Entertainment World (found here), was of a production of August: Osage County. Tracy Lett’s play delves into the troubled family foibles of the Westons, an Oklahoma family famous for feuds of epic … Continue reading
Posted in Culture Updates, TV and Film
Tagged August: Osage County, Film adaptation, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep
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