10.08.2010

Features and analysis

'Like a Rolling Stone' revisited

“ ... perfectly embodies the heads-is-tails uncertainty of modern life, now and in long-ago 1965. More than just lyrically articulating the rock and roll mindset of liberation and risk, it contains the multitudes, distilling the collective experience of millions of lives caught, then and now, in the crossfire hurricane of modern life.”

The other, unsung 'Mad Men' of Madison Avenue

Music museums grapple with a rough economy

Ready to rock, a historic theater reopens in a south Seattle neighborhood



Tweet the drum: Twitter usage a fixture of black America

Fox's '24,' 9/11 and the certainty of uncertainty

Film festivals survive and thrive in the new austerity

The late night shift: Wanda Sykes and George Lopez punch in

"The addition of Sykes and Lopez is a nod both to the nation's changing demographics and to its latitude for comedy that pushes the envelope."

Michele Obama and what it means to be in Vogue

Jimi Hendrix, 40 years beyond

"His insistence on laying down the tracks in his head and his heart, the way he heard them, led to the recording of one of rock music's defining documents, as sonically adventurous as anything in the halcyon era of the 1960s, and the years since then."


Guise and dolls: the Obama daughters as commodity

Charles Johnson:
The Root interview


Norman Whitfield: An appreciation

Hendrix lives: 'Elecrtic Ladyland' at 40

Comic book relief in the age of Obama

'Slumdog Millionaire' and the new American movie

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