Word: mainstreamers
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...just think that people fight it a little bit.”Despite this perceived resistance, the demographics of the comics readership have been rapidly changing to include adults. “We’ve seen the young part of the readership fall away from the American mainstream comics,” says Davis, whose store just celebrated its 35th anniversary. “We don’t get the 10-, 12-, and 14-year-old boys that we used to get. They’ve been replaced by a more female readership, by more people in their...
...good enough to show off her bare voice she has no reason to cover her powerful vocals. It seems Clarkson tried too hard to keep up with pop trends. Although her album is marked with minor blemishes, they will not overshadow her widely-anticipated and overall successful return to mainstream pop. Other than a few blunders, Kelly Clarkson proves to us once more that she’s still got what it takes to be a succesful pop artist. After her misguided detour with “My December,” she’s once again singing catchy...
...simple, catchy guitar riffs and en masse, screamed choral parts. While there are no clear standout singles, tracks like “Listen to Your Friends” and “Don’t Let Her Pull You Down” sound like they could find some mainstream success in addition to pleasing the legions of NFG fans who still cry out for albums full of endemically inane subjects and lyrics. The single best track of the album is “Truck Stop Blues,” which espouses a more minimalist approach, foregoing the occasionally heavy...
...even though, by some standards, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times might be more important or more useful. That was the impetus for this project –– the question of whether we could learn anything for the future of mainstream media by looking at the present of adult media. 2. FM: What about the porn industry is interesting to an economist?BGE: This is an industry that consistently manages to adapt innovations before just about any other sector. If you go back to cavemen, these folks were drawing adult materials on the walls...
...helped make Warren so popular. The Cambodia article is a solid work of journalism, and shows how Comrade Duch's religious awakening led him to be the only Khmer Rouge leader on trial who has confessed his crimes, an insight that is missing from virtually all of the mainstream coverage of the trial. But the Rwanda story veers toward hagiography as it praises the Warrens' compassion and commitment to healing the African nation, which is still haunted by the genocide of the 1990s. (See the top 10 religion stories...