Dissection

As my time left in Ithaca dwindles away, there's one aspect about life in Tompkins County that I only recently realized just how much I'm going to miss: the radio stations. Read More

This book hit the mid-1990s pop-cultural scene like a bolt from the blue. Read More

That Dolly Parton's first hit, in 1967, was called "Dumb Blonde" seems appropriate in retrospect, because she spent her career defying that image while visually embodying it. Read More

DISMISSING Pirate Radio as a bad film made by bad people is shirking responsibility. Read More

Ronald S. Wade is the director of the Anatomical Services Division of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and director of the Maryland Anatomy Board that administers the statewide body donor program. Read More

The book, a personal favorite of my Vince's and myself, is basically, like everything Klosterman has ever written, a rambling dissection of pop culture (in this case, 80s hair metal) interspersed with personal stories (in this case, about growing up in North Dakota). Read More

While Walt Disney indubitably released cartoon shorts before 1937, it was because of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that the studio reigns supreme today. Read More

These are exciting times in the world of underground hip-hop. Read More

ast month, the Stone Roses's self-titled magnum opus celebrated its 20th anniversary; it was a categorically timeless LP that changed the shape of British music, providing a rough outline for Oasis and the oodles of concurrent Britpop acts that dominated her majesty's charts and airwaves for the majority of the 1990s. Read More

Not the best movie by any stretch of the imagination, but since this is a movie based completely upon the conceit of a vampire who starts his own successful rock band, it warranted inclusion here. Read More