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Culture Clips: Social Pressure
Facebook has been one of the darlings of the new millennium, presiding over an ever-expanding online empire made up of some two billion souls. But
What’s in a Word? Plenty.
We’re in the throes of the NCAA Basketball Tournament now, aka March Madness. And you don’t have to be a superfan to know who’s been
Can You Imagine? Black Panther Takes Fifth Straight
Five wins. Most basketball teams that play during March Madness “only” need to rack up five straight wins to be crowned national champs. If the
Disney Tripped on A Wrinkle in Time Because it Didn’t Understand the Story
What makes a great story? What makes it worth the telling? I’ve been thinking a lot about those sorts of questions this week in the
Culture Clips: She Kissed a Boy … and He Didn’t Like It
OK, a quick show of hands: Who would like to get a kiss from Katy Perry? Well, perhaps Plugged In readers are not a representative
American Idol Goes Back to the Future
American Idol is back. On a new network (ABC), and sporting three new celebrity judges (Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan). That’s a quick
Black Panther Irons out Wrinkle
The North American box office hosted what was supposed to be a titanic, Disney-on-Disney battle this weekend, between Marvel’s rolling juggernaut Black Panther and the
How to Fix the Oscars
Well, here we are, nearly a week after the 90th Academy Awards sported record-low viewership numbers. Nielsen suggested they were seen only by a handful
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Culture Clips: Finally, Something We Can All Agree On
In a culture sometimes infatuated with transgressing norms, it’s hard to do something that’s so far out of bounds, morally speaking, that virtually everyone condemns
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