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Category Archives: Art & Culture
Cotton Comes to Brooklyn: The Prime 6 Petition
If you’re not from Brooklyn then you probably haven’t heard, but this past week —one in which we observed the anniversary of the death of rapper Biggie Smalls—the big hubbub has been all about the proposed new bar/club in Park … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlantic Yards, Biggie Smalls, Brooklyn, Flatbush Avenue, Hip Hop, Nets, Park Slope, Prime 6, racism
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Why “Glee” Matters: Let’s Talk about SEX
Most kids don’t want to talk to their parents about sex, and most parents aren’t thrilled about it either. It can be uncomfortable, awkward, and just plain weird. The conversation means parents accepting that their children are sexual creatures, and … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, Art & Culture, Sexuality
Tagged Glee, LGBT, Parenting, Sex Education
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The Busy Signal Diavlog Series: SimmonsWorld.com?
When news broke that Bill Simmons’s Editorial Project, which Deadspin.com has code-named “The Bill Simmons Manhattan Project,” was a new website wherein Simmons would break his content free from the control of the editorial overlords at ESPN, Collin Orcutt and … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Culture, Technology
Tagged bill simmons, Collin Orcutt, espn, Podcasts
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Four FAILs and a FTW: The Stumbling Old Guard
Welcome to the second edition of Four Fails & a For The Win, four mistakes in (or related to) the tech sector, and one great item—or in this edition, an amazing moment—that’s actually good for the tech ecosystem. As I … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Culture, Technology
Tagged aj daulerio, andrea kremer, bill simmons, cd, daulerio, deadspin, hbo, hodgy beats, itunes store, james blake, late night with jimmy fallon, lcd soundsystem, leitch, news corp, odd future, OFWGKTA, real sports, Rupert Murdoch, stubhub, The Daily, ticketmaster, tyler the creator, will leitch
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The Importance of Darwinism: An Open Letter to Glenn Beck
Dear Mr. Beck, As you might not have known, this past weekend was the two hundred and second anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the scientific revolutionary who provided the world with the theory of evolution by natural selection … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Culture, Race, Science
Tagged adolf hitler, charles darwin, darwin day, darwinian evolution, eugenics, evolution, father of modern day racism, genetic inheritance, Glenn Beck, gregor mendel, half monkey half person, human genome, natural selection, on the origin of species, racism, Richard Dawkins, the ancestor's tale, the descent of man, the greatest show on earth, the human genome project
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In Your Eyes
What makes a male love interest? What are the rules? Just what is it, exactly, that makes one actor more bankable to a female audience than another? I’m talking about the rainmakers: the Richard Geres, Robert Pattinsons, John Corbetts, Matthew … Continue reading
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How to Inoculate Yourself From the Grammys
Its Grammy time and that can mean only one thing: if you’re a serious music lover, you are feeling morose and impotent. Every year around this time, I go to Grammy.com to see who the nominees are and, usually, I … Continue reading
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Tagged A Song For You, Brooklyn, Charles Lloyd, Delta Lady, Elton John, Eric Harland, Gil Scot-Heron, Gone To Shiloh, Grammys, Gregory Porter, Human Nature, I'm New Here, Jason Moran, Leon Russell, Masquerade, Michael Jackson, Mirror, Pop Music, Praise And Blame, Rueben Rogers, Solo, the CheckOut, The Lonely One, The Union, Tom Jones, Vijay Iyer, Water, WBGO
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I Ate Cinderella: A Fairy Tale Lover's Look at Peggy Orenstein's New Book
Peggy Orenstein’s new book Cinderella Ate My Daughter was finally released last week after much chatter around the women’s blogosphere. In the book, she wonders how to walk the fine line between fairy tales and Disney’s relatively new princess marketing scheme … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Culture, Feminism
Tagged Beauty and the Beast, Charles Perrault, Cinderella, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Disney Princesses, Donna Jo Napoli, Fairy Tales, girls, Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, Myths, Peggy Orenstein, Robin McKinley, Rose Daughter, The Hero and The Crown
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