... to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers and thanks to everyone who played! Pop Culture Trivia will be on a brief hiatus because of Thanksgiving, but it will return on Saturday, 11/28. Have yourselves a Happy Thanksgiving! Here are the answers: 1. The ... Leonard Bernstein, Soviet Union leader Leonid Brezhnev, and music critic Lester Bangs 8. In the 1989 episode of Roseanne titled ...

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... well I suspect that I wouldn't have a bad review in me. But the problem with this is that, as a critic, I have to think critically about the film. The context to which it is being released, the careers of the ... is why reviewing and analzying art mediums, to the extent that pop culture journalists have to, will ultimately ruin them. Once you know, you can never really un-know. I'm not ...

... ways. But today, with a typically excellent post about pop culture's promotion of patience as a girl- ... compelling pro-Swift argument. As music critic Ann Powers wrote in the L.A. Times ... long known that such girls will shell out for throwaway (and even sometimes good) pop by swoon-inducing young men and carefully ... Citing other big names in today's pop pool, like Katy Perry, Rihanna and Adele ...

... among methods. Prep players join in, asking questions. This only reflects culture, again. These days I meet many Average Joes on the juice for looks, ... ; really irked Steve, the breed defined by sport critic and author Robert Lipsyte. These ex-NFLers were blessed with lucrative ... the new world of perpetual media, having eclipsed Hollywood in pop culture, and McGwire was bigger than Brad Pitt. Steve, ...

... I asked Anne Midgette, the classical music critic of the Washington Post, to join me for a glance back at ... ;s true -- that this is what people always feel about all kinds of radio. That pop listeners are all saying "Radio is crap these days. ... In part because of the financial issues and the cultural issues, as our culture grows more away from classical music in many ways, I think a lot of ...

... up with Perkus Tooth, a marijuana-addicted pop culture critic, whose characteristics will be familiar to pretty much anyone who earned a ... his characters from it all in an insulating cocoon of marijuana smoke and pop trivia. Their forays into the darkness of Manhattan’s ... and Motherless Brooklyn, which temper a love of popular culture with genuine characters and an affecting plot. I’ll ...

... or build a girl’s confidence. Here, pop culture critic Courtney Young asks if what she identifies as ... the psyches and self-esteem of girls and women but also contribute to a culture that fosters violence against them? New York Times writer Manolha ... says, subvert the script. The images that we see and receive in popular culture are indeed powerful. First lady Michelle Obama’s ...

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... by armies of servants. Chronic City is Chase's story of his friendship with the bohemian eccentric Perkus Tooth. Tooth is a pop-culture critic, specializing in long, angry rants about movies and music. Like ... "broadsides." The posters made Perkus famous in the small Bohemian culture of downtown Manhattan a long time ago. Later, he wrote for Rolling ...