Department Index
Culturebox 2007:
Arts, entertainment, and more.
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- Bigger, Louder, More Frogs How Paul Thomas Anderson sets himself apart from Hollywood's other wunderkinds.
Dec. 24, 2007 - Smoke Screens How Hollywood really made cigarettes cool.
Dec. 11, 2007 - The Man Who Did It All Or so he'd have you believe. Does Hitchcock get too much credit?
Dec. 4, 2007 - Sucker Punch The art, the poetry, the idiocy of YouTube street fights.
Nov. 26, 2007 - Is That a Microphone in My Pocket? When rock show banter goes wrong.
Nov. 23, 2007 - Into the "Wild" How a film and an essay reflect our changed ideas about nature.
Nov. 19, 2007 - I Love the Smell of Celluloid in the Morning Why are all the Iraq movies really movies about making movies?
Nov. 16, 2007 - Terror's Advocate A weirdly nonjudgmental movie about a lawyer who never met a terrorist he wouldn't defend.
Nov. 1, 2007 - The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Torturers Why the Saw movies are perfect for middle managers.
Oct. 26, 2007 - Ben Affleck's Boston His portrait of the city is far from perfect—but at least it's not wicked bad.
Oct. 22, 2007 - Tyler Perry's Secret to Success He makes movies for audiences everyone else ignores.
Oct. 22, 2007 - The Trouble With Indie Rock It's not just race. It's class.
Oct. 18, 2007 - What's Wrong With The Office A Slate diagnosis.
Oct. 18, 2007 - Six Dylans Are Better Than One How to make a pop-music biopic that doesn't stink.
Oct. 10, 2007 - My Kid Could Paint That Does Marla Olmstead's work belong in a museum or on the fridge?
Oct. 5, 2007 - The Father of All Memoirs What Edmund Gosse could teach today's memoirists.
Oct. 1, 2007 - Unbearable Whiteness That queasy feeling you get when watching a Wes Anderson movie.
Sept. 27, 2007 - Psalm Springs How I translated the Bible's most poetic book.
Sept. 26, 2007 - Mess MoCA An artist and a museum fight over a work of art.
Sept. 25, 2007 - Killer Films Why the new vigilante movies are a lot like the old vigilante movies.
Sept. 13, 2007 - Enormous Changes in Very Small Spaces Grace Paley's greatness.
Sept. 7, 2007 - Not So Stellar What Star Jones doesn't get about women, TV, and women who watch TV.
Sept. 5, 2007 - Don't Drink the Balloon Juice Good, bad, and ugly things to name your blog.
Aug. 7, 2007 - See Jane Elope Why are we so obsessed with Jane Austen's love life?
Aug. 3, 2007 - Attack of the Slummy Mummy A new novel praises the barely competent mom.
July 31, 2007 - The E Decade Was I right about the dangers of the Internet in 1997?
July 25, 2007 - Peeking at Potter Is it wrong to skip to the end of a book?
July 20, 2007 - The Lost Generation Who's not reading Harry Potter? His peers.
July 20, 2007 - Mad Men and Made Men AMC's new series could have been the Sopranos of advertising. It's not.
July 18, 2007 - Why Bambi II Is Better Than Bambi And why Disney shouldn't kill the straight-to-DVD sequel.
July 17, 2007 - Where's the Beef? It's on YouTube. Why that's a problem for hip-hop.
July 6, 2007 - "Re-orchestrated, scripted, and rehearsed" How Werner Herzog handles the truth.
July 5, 2007 - How To Design a Lincoln Museum Do you feel what Lincoln felt?
July 5, 2007 - How To Design a Lincoln Museum Step 1: Ask Disney for advice. Step 2: Build a roller coaster?
July 4, 2007 - When Orson Welles Was a Transformer Why the original Transformers movie is better than the new one.
July 2, 2007 - So, You Want To Be a Star? Leo Lerman's gossipy journals offer lessons on fame.
July 2, 2007 - Forget Paris The editor of Us Weekly explains the irresistibility of Paris Hilton—and why she banned the heiress from the magazine.
June 29, 2007 - Sarah's Antidote Is the J.T. Leroy scandal what you think it is?
June 27, 2007 - Calling in Sicko Michael Moore takes to the phones to promote his new movie.
June 26, 2007 - Short Cuts Is Diff'rent Strokes better at 5 minutes than it was at 30? Tuning in to the Minisode Network.
June 22, 2007 - Richard Rorty What made him a crucial American philosopher?
June 15, 2007 - What the First Moviegoers Saw Great, uncanny early films.
June 15, 2007 - Hot Stuff The quest for radioactive items on eBay.
June 14, 2007 - The Politics of Shmashmortion Knocked Up as litmus test.
June 8, 2007 - Bye Bye Bodhi Why the movies always get surfing wrong—and John From Cincinnati gets it right.
June 8, 2007 - Signs From God The curious history of church marquees.
May 30, 2007 - Pessimist Nation Slate readers testify to the power of negative thinking.
May 29, 2007 - My Favorite Font Anne Fadiman, Jonathan Lethem, Richard Posner, and others reveal what font they compose in and why.
May 25, 2007 - Is Blake Lewis Any Good at Beatboxing? Actually, he's not half bad.
May 22, 2007 - The Owen and Luke Wilson Story Time for a new chapter, guys.
May 18, 2007 - Think Negative! Oprah, it's time to come clean about The Secret.
May 16, 2007 - Fear of Blogging Why women shouldn't apologize for being afraid of threats on the Web.
May 4, 2007 - Spider-Man Gets All Emo Does the sunny superhero really need a dark side?
May 3, 2007 - Admission Is Free. The Rothko Is $40 Million. The wonder, and danger, of the spring auction previews at Sotheby's and Christie's.
April 26, 2007 - In Praise of Difficult Poetry The much-maligned art.
April 23, 2007 - Uncle Ben, CEO? The strange history of racist spokescharacters.
April 20, 2007 - Thank God You're Here Putting improv on TV? Hardly.
April 19, 2007 - This Old Grindhouse The theaters were awful and so were the movies.
April 6, 2007 - Bourne, Again What really bugs critics about the world's most successful choreographer.
April 4, 2007 - Anger Management Lessons from an improbable collaboration.
April 2, 2007 - Grand Theft Politics Should Democrats look to video games for inspiration?
April 2, 2007 - Why Is Will Ferrell Funny? A video slide show.
March 29, 2007 - Smokey Bear Nation How we use animal characters to teach our kids.
March 20, 2007 - The Enlightened Bracketologist Interactive brackets reveal the best ad slogan of all time, the greatest film death, and more.
March 13, 2007 - The Katie Show Does Couric's rocky start at CBS spell trouble for Hillary Clinton?
March 7, 2007 - Quirky in a Good Way Why all the hate for Little Miss Sunshine?
Feb. 22, 2007 - Great Poems About Sex An anthology for Valentine's Day.
Feb. 13, 2007 - A Very Nasty Portrait of the Artist How Factory Girl insults Andy Warhol.
Feb. 7, 2007 - World Wide Sundance Will the Web make film festivals obsolete?
Jan. 26, 2007 - Women in Love On Patty Marx, Christopher Hitchens, and funny women.
Jan. 24, 2007 - Men Without Tights Comics that reinvent the superhero genre.
Jan. 22, 2007 - Graphic Violence The best comics about the Iraq war.
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