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Have You Voted? Good. Now Go See Sara Marcus.
Do you miss Bikini Kill? Dream of writing "SLUT" on your belly once more? When you hear the words Huggy Bear, do you think of...Read More Published 11/08/2011 at 1:09 PM 0 comments -
There Must Be Some Way Out of Here (Dylan at 70)
Bob Dylan is 70 today. I'll spare you the lame "times they are a changin'" geezer jokes and whatnot, and just link to Knoxville Urban...Read More Published 05/23/2011 at 11:02 PM 0 comments -
Jeff Daniel Marion FTW!
So we are here in Chattanooga for this weekend's Conference on Southern Literature - and my, how it has grown since this writer first attended...Read More Published 04/15/2011 at 2:12 PM 0 comments -
David Lynch: Hungry Like the Wolf?
It almost makes sense: Two icons of '80s cool, together at last. The problem is that it's Duran Duran and David Lynch we're talking about. Which makes...Read More Published 03/22/2011 at 12:35 AM 0 comments -
Tommy James and the Mob
Even if you don't love the simmering '60s hits of Tommy James (and if you don't, we're not sure we can really be friends with...Read More Published 02/14/2011 at 3:58 PM 0 comments -
Elizabeth Bishop, 100 Years Old
So we don't post a whole lot of poetry-related stuff here, because we're not that classy. (OK, most of us aren't. Cari is. But she's...Read More Published 02/08/2011 at 4:47 PM 0 comments -
Back Up Yours: The Return of Poly Styrene
Maybe you have to be a certain kind of aging punk-rock geek to really get excited about this, but that's me, and I'm happy to...Read More Published 01/17/2011 at 7:31 PM 0 comments -
Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes We Do (R.I.P. Captain Beefheart)
Don Van Vliet died Friday at the age of 69, apparently after years of suffering from multiple sclerosis. I say "apparently," because so much of...Read More Published 12/17/2010 at 11:51 PM 0 comments -
Comic-Geek Alert: 'Barnaby' Reissue
Big news for fans of classic-but-maddeningly-hard-to-find newspaper comics: Fantagraphics plans to reissue the entire 10-year run of Crockett Johnson's oddball-genius strip Barnaby. Johnson these days...Read More Published 12/03/2010 at 5:07 PM 0 comments -
David Lynch, Pop Singer
Music isn't exactly a new pursuit for David Lynch (director of Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, etc.). He and longtime collaborator Angelo Badalamenti teamed...Read More Published 11/29/2010 at 10:09 PM 0 comments
10-Minute Obsession: Archives
We traverse the pop-culture universe to catalog points of interest, from fleeting whimsies to long-term obsessions.
