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...than the frequently asked questions section of BevReview.com where they ask a spokesperson from Pepsi whether the logo of throwback will have the 70s globe design or the swirly blue font. We’ve seen that food companies respond to journalistic pressure (McDonalds no longer offers supersized stuff), so we need to be more careful about what we draw our attention to, what we ask for, and what we celebrate. Right now, though the intentions are good, the energy, I’m afraid, is completely misdirected.—Staff Writer Rebecca A. Cooper can be reached...
...find so alluring? The cult of the slasher film, once considered a perverse, transgressive genre, has morphed into the unapologetic torture-porn fad. The genre of television detective drama has collapsed into gore-fests like those featured on “CSI.” Violence has become the stuff of the banal, and yet retains its mystic and exotic appeal. Valentin Groebner, one of Germany’s up-and-coming historians, takes a look at this phenomenon, grounding it centuries ago in the visual culture of the Middle Ages. Groebner’s claim provides the basis...
...core of her curriculum. According to Dr. Stanton, both professors and students have noticed the change in comic books, which has prompted them to read these works more closely. “The quality of graphic narrative itself is better—there is simply more good stuff out there that’s worth our attention,” Stanton says. “Our students’ interest in comics and comic book form has also inspired us as teachers and scholars to pay more attention to the form. I think I’ve learned...
...FlyBy is sure you noticed that it's all the really cool people that are most excited about Ratatat. Social proof, folks...its worth your time to dig in to some of their stuff. While the VOID may not be the altered state of mind you're looking for when listening to Ratatat, we insist their creativity will be a better sound than that deathly silence all around...
...That's putting it mildly. Many diplomats in East Asia believe that getting the North to stand down its nukes may be a lost cause. It's easy, given the timing, to attribute Pyongyang's recent bellicose rhetoric as standard stuff: the North always ratchets up tensions whenever the U.S. and South Korea hold major military exercises, as they are doing this week. And many North Korea watchers in Seoul believe the recent tone is simply intended to soften up a new Administration in Washington. Again, fairly predictable for the North Korean regime. (See pictures of North Koreans going...