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Tuesday’s election was crucial for the youth voter, and we failed to meet the challenge. Hope springs eternal, however, while media and pop culture still do their part to encourage us to get out and vote. In four years, when P. Diddy again threatens to kill you for not voting and MTV interrupts the “Real World” broadcast to play “Rock the Vote” commercials, appreciate the effort. Think about why your friends don’t vote and about why this specifically targeted advertising isn?...
...from Monster's Ball to Tinker Bell. And there's a rooting interest in a film that portrays children as children rather than jaded sitcom brats and their adult friend as a generous, guileless soul rather than a sad and unsettling influence--a lost boy himself--like the pop-star resident of another Neverland who at 46 still imagines himself as Peter...
Modeled on Seinfeld's kitchen, stores in a new chain of cereal-only cafs sport cabinets stuffed with 33 types of cereal and 34 toppings, from dried blueberries to Pop Rocks. Cereality customers pay $4 a bowl, then choose and pour their milk--soy, flavored, skim or whole. At the Tempe, Ariz., flagship, "Cereologists"--pajama-clad servers--serve up plain old corn flakes as well as fancier combos. Among their popular concoctions: Devil Made Me Do It, combining Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms with chocolate milk and malt balls. On Nov. 29, a 1,500-sq.-ft. Philadelphia outpost...
Audiences really were just getting pieces of ASHLEE SIMPSON as she performed on Saturday Night Live Oct. 23. When prerecorded vocals for the wrong song piped up during her set, the shamefaced singer was exposed as a lip syncher. Ashlee, sister of pop confection Jessica, shuffled as if at a hoedown and left the stage. She later blamed her failure to sing live on a sore throat caused by acid reflux. Within days Ashlee was obviously warbling for real at the Radio Music Awards and telling the Today show the SNL episode was "mortifying." But the 20-year-old kept...
...blends together old-school academia and new-school pop culture, invoking Socrates, Herman Melville and Snoop Dogg to advocate critical examination first of one self, and eventually of one’s government...