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5 Stars to 10 websites (and blogs) that deserve to be bookmarked by pop culture fans. Digital iPod worshippers convene at iLounge, where they track every conceivable accessory for the player. And percolating ... read more
You might have held on to your Coldplay concert stub, the drink ticket for that bar you always say you'll go back to, or the billet de Métro you found at the bottom ... read more
Scratch a record and you're talking hip-hop. Or you're talking Christian Marclay. Marclay, a visual artist and composer, has been repurposing vinyl and turntables since disco days. He was in the news recently ... read more
You may already know StumbleUpon, a free browser add-on toolbar that introduces you to websites based on your preferences, interests, and feedback. Clicking on the thumb's up or thumb's down button guides the ... read more
Last week, we featured an ingenious commercial in which a Nissan car is used as a skateboard. This morning, a fabulously awful ad from the Eagle car insurance company: bad production values, worse ... read more
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis is a documentary about the gay Lower East Side underground filmmaker, photographer, anarchist, anticapitalist, and inspiration to Andy Warhol and John Waters. Smith, who died in ... read more
Vintage gadgets and technology are the subject/obsession of Retro Thing. The enthusiasm is contagious. While we're generally drawn, Homer-Simpson-like, to the mmm...shiny...new, after spending some time on the site, we find ourselves lusting ... read more
Abortion. Post-divorce trauma. Black militia, Scotch and Valium -- in the same half-hour. Nothing was off-bounds for "Maude," arguably the real jewel in Norman Lear's crown, and the rare example of a spinoff ... read more
You want a still life with fruit? Forget it. Kinetica is a London museum, opened last October, that showcases the convergence of art and technology. In the past century, as machines played ever-more ... read more


















