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...KING By Rich Koslowski From the cartoonist of Three Fingers, comes a pop culture, adventure/mystery about an enigmatic Elvis impersonator that might actually be "The King." (Summer...
BILL: It has been a strange and good year for pop music. I think your talk about the “triumph of the new” is right on the money, Chris. In the past year, independent music has resonated with a larger and more diverse audience than ever before, due primarily to a dramatic increase in exposure. Past vehicles for indie dissemination—obscure music rags, for instance, but above all the unconquerable mixtape—have yielded to the power of the internet. Indie is no longer the realm of the snob and the obsessive. Eager...
There’s a disconnect here between people’s goals and their stances on policies that affect those goals. But what else should we expect from a pop culture that treats politics as entertainment and regards the phrase “mindless entertainment” as redundant...
...down to think through these questions, it dawned on me that doing so would be a remarkably dull process: There’s nothing to think through. Harvardian snootiness towards cable television and pop culture in general aside, they aren’t in the least bit controversial. What student would really oppose these things? Never mind that some of them seem antithetical to other promises made by the candidates—making printing free surely encourages much more wasted paper than would be saved by switching to recyclable cups in the dining hall. The real issue is, while these...
After Carlisle had finished her (mostly) solo set, Russell Wolff and his band (comprised of another guitarist, bassist and drummer) took the stage—such as it is—and proceeded to perform a relatively homogenous selection of vocally quirky but musically conventional pop-country tunes, occasionally sounding like a softened Old 97s. Wolff and his group, though not the most musically talented band on the scene nor the most lyrically eloquent, was nonetheless quite engaging and fun. Wolff did repeatedly reference the nature of the venue (“damn it feels good to be back...