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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

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How Bad Can It Be?: “Keeping Up With the Kardashians”

Jack Feerick March 20, 2009 20

There’s a particular school of cultural critic — you know the kind — who are forever seeking signs that the world is going to hell in a bucket. One phenomenon that they decry with

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