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30 Rock: Kidney donation, like free-range chicken, is universally funny
Season three of 30 Rock ended last night on a high note (ugh, pun). Sending up celebrity charities and benefit concerts will always be funny. You can watch the full episode here. Now, I could get into...
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Blonde on blonde: Madonna Vs. Lady Gaga
So, I just wanna make sure we all saw Madonna and Lada Gaga catfight in a skit on SNL last weekend. If not . . . This skit is interesting, though not without its problems in terms of how conceptualizes...
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Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s by...
For financial reasons, I was only able to swing one day of Fun Fun Fun Fest so I’m blogging while many in this fair city are catching some good music in Waterloo Park. Although, admittedly, if you’re...
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Scene It: Aretha Franklin and The Blues Brothers
I finally saw The Blues Brothers a few weekends back. Even for someone who hasn’t seen the majority of SNL-related movies from the 1980s, it’s pretty weird that I haven’t seen this one. My parents were...
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Tuning in to NPR’s radio voice(s)
Back in 2009, Kristen at Act Your Age and I were talking about NPR’s coverage of that spring’s SXSW, which dovetailed into a discussion about Bob Boilen’s stilted interaction with Thao Nguyen. As the...
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