The art of film involves many collaborators, the most important of whom — as I’ve written before — is the audience. We are more than passive receivers. It is we,…
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Jack Feerick
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It’s a holiday tradition; the low murmur of the stereo in the corner of the kitchen, filling the house with the sounds of Yuletide cheer. And in our house that…
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Jack Feerick
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Thanks to the fortunes of History and the inevitable bending of the Universe’s moral arc towards justice, our children, gay and straight, are growing up in a world where it…
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Jack Feerick
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I talk about a lot of different iterations of pop culture in these columns — film, literature, music, comics — but even the casual reader will notice that there’s a…
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Jack Feerick
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We’re well into Movember now, the month-long event wherein thousands of men worldwide grow mustaches to raise awareness of men’s health issues. Count your humble Old Professor among that number….
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Dw. Dunphy
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America’s current crises reveal just how divided the national psyche is.
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Jack Feerick
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We who take it as a vocation to criticize the efforts of others must take great care to keep our own behavior above reproach. It is particularly bad form to…
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Jonny Balfus
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When you were in school you went to parties. You sat around accomplishing not too much and, when The Tune came on, everyone chimed in on the big sing-along…
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Jon Cummings
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Dw DUNPHY: Well, now that Syria has vanished from the front pages, Big Tea has refocused on the fight they really wanted: Running the government into a brick wall. Praise…
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Popdose Staff
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The drumbeat of war is tapping away again. How does the US stand to lose or gain from an act of aggression against Syria?
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Dw. Dunphy
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Marissa Mayer – forming the cult of Yahoo or the cult of Marissa Mayer?
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Jack Feerick
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So this week the geek world (Doctor Who division) is abuzz over the announcement that cussy Caledonian Peter Capaldi has been cast as the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor. Capaldi…
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Jack Feerick
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It’s high summer, and we’re in the midst of wedding season. And if you’re going to a wedding this summer, then there’s a chance you’re going to find yourself doing…
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Jack Feerick
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I’ve been catching up on the Entertainment Geekly podcast this week (which is my own damned problem, I suppose), and I was struck by an odd conversational turn during a…
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Jack Feerick
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Like a lot of people, I have trouble taking Sting seriously — as seriously as he takes himself, anyway. But I must admit that I greeted the news of his…
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Jack Feerick
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One of the most anticipated television events of the summer is Under the Dome, a 13-week summer series adapted from the Stephen King novel of the same name. Under the…
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Jack Feerick
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Last week saw the anniversary of one of the most horrific events in American history, the shootings of four unarmed college students by National Guardsmen on the campus of Ohio’s…
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Jack Feerick
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It’s not a revelation to anyone, anymore, to point out that Hollywood is no longer in the business of original ideas. It takes a great deal of money to make…
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Jack Feerick
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The works of William S. Burroughs are often lumped in with the Beat school; but although he was friendly with leading figures in the movement, his works were far more…
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Jonny Balfus
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So I’m standing on the 7th Avenue subway platform in lower Manhattan, circa 1983. Two knuckleheads are discussing a picture of a baby in a circle. The primitive image is drawn…
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Jack Feerick
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And so we come, by the turning of the year, to the end of Shrovetide and the beginning of the Christian liturgical calendar. When I was a choir director, these…
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Jack Feerick
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It’s coming on St. Patrick’s Day now. That’s when all the amateur Irishmen come out for a night on the piss and an annual flirtation with Celtic folk music. In…
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Jack Feerick
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I’ve always been a know-it-all. I was the kid who actually did read the encyclopedia for fun, and I carried my reputation as a fount of useless knowledge into adulthood…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Does Taylor Swift’s song have the same weight as Gloria Gaynor’s?
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Dw. Dunphy
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Former New York Mayor Ed Koch died early Friday morning, February 1, at the age of 88.
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Jonny Balfus
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In a hole in the ground there lived a lawsuit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet lawsuit, filled with the ends of contracts and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry,…
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Jon Cummings
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A newspaper’s map of permit holders points a way forward if gun control fails.
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