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Cultural Lessons of 2012: How R&B became a vital genre again
As a new calendar year approaches, our writers reflect on what they learned from pop culture over the past 12 month. With six Grammy nominations, and his debut album Channel Orange topping many a...
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Cultural Lessons of 2012: Singing is the new talking
Tom Cruise seemed like he was the only one not in on the joke. As the fading rock frontman Stacee Jaxx in Rock of Ages, a role that in the stage production was played with a sense of deliberately...
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Cultural Lessons of 2012: Authorship is overrated
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, the 24-year-old British songbird, was last week named The Associated Press’s “Entertainer of 2012” — even though she didn’t tour or release an album in the past 12 months. Her...
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Cultural Lessons of 2012: It’s never too late to put your shirt on
When the Toronto Film Critics Association voted on its favourite performances of 2012, Matthew McConaughey wasn’t nominated, perhaps because he split his own vote so many ways. The 43-year-old actor...
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Cultural Lessons of 2012: Star Trek Into Darkness is banishing the colon, and...
J.J. Abrams has not only rebooted the heck out of the almost five-decade-old Star Trek franchise, he’s revised the punctuation habits of 25 years of its motion picture spinoffs. Beginning with 1979’s...
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Cultural Lessons of 2012: Baby Boomers will save the world (whether we want...
I get that if you want to raise money for charity, it doesn’t make sense to appeal to cash-strapped tweens. We all know that enough pop culture is marketed to them any ways, so maybe we don’t need to...
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Cultural Lessons of 2012: Chevy Chase vs. Community and why aging stars...
Sorry, Chevy, but you’re no Betty. Hate to break it to you, Matt, but you’re hardly Shat. When it comes to celebrity cameos in commercials, they can be launch pads — or a final destination. It’s a...
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