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CD Review: Kiss, “Sonic Boom”

Popdose Staff October 5, 2009 14

Any good label manager would tell you: don’t name your album something a reviewer could turn into a catchy, snarky counterpoint. But as we know far too well, most of the labels are hanging

Book Review: Matt Springer, “Unconventional”

Jeff Giles September 23, 2009 7

See, now this is what Fanboys wanted to be. The debut novel (or novella, as somewhat grumpily conceded in the Author’s Note) from AlertNerd‘s Matt Springer, Unconventional is, according to the front cover’s helpful

Sugar Water: Black and/or White

Robert Cass June 30, 2009 18

Writer-producer-director Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing opened in theaters on June 30, 1989. “White people still ask me why Mookie threw the [trash] can through the window” at the film’s climax, he recently

21st Century Digital Boy: TV Turn-Offs, Sylar Knifed, and Bye-Bye Dorothy

Peter Chakerian April 27, 2009 4

Peter Chakerian is back from celebrating TV Turn-Off Week -- and in his latest installment of 21st Century Digital Boy, he looks at how far his beloved boob tube has come, anticipates the Heroes

DVD Review: “Howard the Duck”

Dw. Dunphy April 7, 2009 5

The question is not whether Howard The Duck has aged well, nor is it whether the movie was ahead of its time and is only now finding an appropriate audience. It isn’t even if

The Bigger Picture: The Paradox of Poverty

Arend Anton March 13, 2009 3

There is a sentiment, shared by many followers of great art, that monetary success strips an artist of his inspiration. It is the idea that once the artist has little left to prove, the

The Bigger Picture: Disaster Movie!

Arend Anton January 10, 2009 8

The average movie is mediocre at best. This is not meant as an insult to hardworking filmmakers. The simple fact of the matter is that few films in a given year can actually be