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Political Culture: How to Take a “Leap of Faith” … and Fall Flat on Your Ass
As a disastrous new show stumbles toward Broadway and "Glee" rebounds from its worst episode, can issues of religious belief inspire decent musical theatre? Jon Cummings has his doubts
Read More »Film Review: “Nowhere Boy”
John Lennon's traumatic teens, and the birth of the Beatles, get the little-British-art-film treatment. But can it work both as cinema and as Beatleography?
Read More »Political Culture: Americans, Running Hot N Cold
Katy Perry's aborted Sesame Street appearance launched a short-lived kerfuffle, but offers a neat allegory for explaining the idiocy of the current political climate. Jon Cummings considers the merits of Katy's cleavage and other
Read More »Jesus of Cool: Breaking Up Is Easy To Do (Or, Why Miley Cyrus Is So AWFUL!)
Sometimes an artist and her fans need to just, like, move on already. Here, the author's daughter (and her BFF) explain why the Party In The USA is so yesterday
Read More »Political Culture: The Not-So-Great Society
Now is the summer of our discontent … arriving on the heels of a spring, winter, autumn and previous summer that roiled in similar fashion. Americans, it seems, have declared open season upon one
Read More »Political Culture: All Politics Is Local (Unfortunately)
Americans' loathing for politicians has reached historic levels -- and as Jon Cummings discovered, a squalid local race in one California county justifies their disdain
Read More »Jesus of Cool: “Glee Live” Defies Gravity, and Channels … the Brady Kids?
The kids from Glee take their show off the air and onto the road. It's not for the uninitiated -- but for Gleeks it's a pleasure they needn't feel guilty about. Yet
Read More »Popdose Flashback ’90: Andrew Ridgeley, “Son of Albert”
Bobby. Art. Dave. Sonny. Ike. J-’Stache. Curt. Paul (Humphreys, that is). Everly (no, not that one, the other one) … Of all the lesser halves of pop’s greatest duos, certainly none is held in
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