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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
This week in “Thanks, Internet” — Seinfeld vs Bizkit, FiveThirtyEight tries football (and fails), James Van Der Beek meets fan films, Tig Notaro hopes to host the Oscars, and Jimmy Kimmel really gets...
View ArticleMusic Videos from the 90s are So Totally Lost on Millenials
Boy bands, frosted-tips, Lollapalooza –– the 90s are so close, and yet so far away. But for today's teens, the Clinton era is a mystery. Enter Buzzfeed. Earlier this month, Buzzfeed staffers resolved...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: How to Get Billy Idol to Play Your Birthday Party for Free
It costs $50,000 to have Billy Idol appear at a private event, but in 2012, a 25-year-old working at a Seattle mall convinced the rock star and his band to play his birthday party for free. All Michael...
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"Saved by the Bell" Meets Feminist Theorist Bell Hooks
The work of leftist cultural critic and author bell hooks (styled in all lowercase letters) is basically required reading for the budding feminist. The TV series Saved by the Bell was basically...
View ArticleSummer Music: Fred Armisen's Mixtape
All summer long we'll be asking thinkers, artists and musicians about what makes the quintessential summer song. This week, SNL's Fred Armisen gives us his idea of the ultimate summer playlist. (You've...
View ArticleSummer Music: Pat Benatar's Mixtape
We've been compiling a summer soundtrack for The Takeaway. We're calling this our summer mixed tape series. Who has given us their summer jams so far? MTV's Sway, and SNL's Fred Armisen, who used to...
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Tupac Shakur At Coachella: Part Of A Long History Of Singing With Ghosts
The Internet has been abuzz over a recent "performance" at Coachella by a resuscitated Tupac Shakur. You can hear about how it was done on today's All Things Considered. (Please note that the lyrics in...
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Ray Bradbury: Finding Our Reflections Where We Didn't Expect Them
Heinlein, Asimov and Bradbury; they were the tripod (invasive, moving, with lasers) on which my science fiction education was built in the 1970s. This was somewhat self-selected, because once you — or...
View ArticleChristmas at the Movies
The Christmas holiday is charged with nostalgia and hope, so a Christmas setting can effectively heighten the emotional power of any story. There have been many Christmas scenes in movies, and host...
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The Downside Of Flexibility: A Plea For Must-See TV At A Must-Watch Time
I remember riding the bus to school in the early 2000s, listening as the older kids argued passionately about was going to happen on that night's episode of Friends. In the background, radio ads on the...
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Big Hair, Big Shoulders And Big Money: Linda Evans On '80s Excess
You may find a hint to the era in which you were born (as well as your taste in entertainment) in Linda Wertheimer's clarification that on the '80s nighttime soap Dynasty, actress Linda Evans played...
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'So Much In This World We Can Learn': PBS Remixes Mr. Rogers Again
PBS has been remixing some of its most famous folks over the last year, and to mark the first anniversary of its "Garden Of Your Mind" remix with Fred Rogers, it's remixed him again, with this charming...
View ArticleThe Culture Gabfest: Initiate Neural Handshake Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the Guillermo del Toro film "Pacific Rim," the new Comedy Central show "Drunk History," and John Tierney's New York Times piece on...
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Karen Black, Strange And Lovely, And Always Game
Karen Black was oddly alluring, with that wide, sly smile and those slightly off-kilter eyes. The New York Times once called her "something of a freak, a beautiful freak." Her friend Peter Fonda says...
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It Just Isn't Halloween Without A Little 'Hocus Pocus'
I love me some fun-size Almond Joys, and pumpkin carving is a tragically under-sung creative outlet. But my favorite Halloween tradition comes in the form of a kid's movie starring Bette Midler in a...
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A Complete Curmudgeon's Guide To 'The Sound Of Music'
NBC has released the first trailer for its live version of The Sound Of Music, airing December 5.Now, some have chosen to focus on the negative; on the nostalgic sense that to remake this show — or,...
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Not-stalgia: Why I Don't Miss 'Seinfeld'
I remember laughing occasionally at Seinfeld. I'm pretty sure there's tape of me somewhere, probably on a podcast, acknowledging that it's good. Because of peer pressure.I don't like Seinfeld, I don't...
View ArticleWhat Decade Of NYC Music Are You Nostalgic For?
This week on Soundcheck, we're asking our listeners to tell us about the decade of New York music that they're the most nostalgic for. Maybe it's the 1940s, because of New York performing legends like...
View ArticleWhy Do We Get Nostalgic, Anyway?
We’ve come to the end of Soundcheck's week of nostalgia for bygone eras of the New York music scene. But one thing we haven’t tackled yet: Why do we get nostalgic in the first place? And why does music...
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