The New York Times, doing its best as always to hunt down news from the real world and bring it back to the drawing rooms of Manhattan, reported this sunday in the Style section that there exist some black folk who actually enjoy and identify with indie rock…
Upper East Side newsflash: There’s a lot [...]
It’s not easy being … well, anybody, really
By Giselle Velazquez, January 31, 2007 7:15 am in the daily feedSometimes “Martin’s got cooties!” and “Madison just peed her pants - again!” aren’t the only things hollered on the playground. In an event as likely as pigs taking flight, trashy British tabloid The Sun has gotten serious and pulled together a cross-section of kids to talk about the racial slurs they’ve been stung [...]
Read It’s not easy being … well, anybody, really »Who says public financing is dead? A bill introduced Tuesday is shaking up the way presidential campaigns are funded. It’s also making it a heck of a lot harder to comprehend an already complicated issue.
Before we get ahead of ourselves, it is important to understand how the system operates now. Spearheaded after [...]
After a week-long layoff, it’s time to get back on my cyber-grind, so to speak. So here it is - a melange of news stories that I have found interesting, illuminating, or most expedient when assembling my blog entry. I also saw Children of Men (for a second time), and would highly recommend it to [...]
Read The Mundy Round Up »Yesterday was the funeral of one of Burma’s most famous poets, U Tin Moe. Yet the Burmese government refused to allow the media in the country to report on his death. And though he was living in Los Angeles, the U.S. mainstream media did not cover the event because the poet was virtually unknown here.
U [...]
Here at PopandPolitics.com, we really dig tag clouds - the feature we have off to the right of our posts under “Heat”. With tagclouds, more frequently used tags are displayed in a larger font, whereas less popular words/subjects appear smaller in the tag cloud. Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead [...]
Read Say What? »To understand both pop + politics in the Web 2.0 world, one must be in touch with the specific feelings across online content-generating demographics at a particular point in time and place.
Enter WeFeelFine.org, the excellent real-time visualization of the above, created by Internet artist Jonathan Harris and Google personalization tech Sep Kamvar.
Basically, WeFeelFine aggregates and [...]
Smokin’ Aces is a most rare thing: a good movie released in January. Crazy! A Universal Pictures-Working Title Films product written and directed by Joe Carnahan, who brought audiences Narc (2002), this movie kills, it’s a “gotta see, no doubt” with enough action, suspense and violence to satisfy the entertainment masochist in all of us.
The [...]
I met two gang intervention specialists last week who work in Harbor City, Harbor Gateway and East Side Torrance in South LA. They are both former gang members and both fathers.
Leroy Martinez is now 52; he was an active gang member until eight years ago. He said he decided to get out because he [...]
Rock fans are crying “blasphemy” to the latest merchandizing of Jimi Hendrix. Jimi’s sacred image will soon appear on containers of “Liquid Experience,” a new energy drink developed by California-based Beverage Concepts. This new “health” drink is set to appear in stores this April. Hey didn’t Hendrix die of a drug overdose before he reached the [...]
By turning to the public personally via Yahoo! Answers, Hillary Clinton exemplifies how emerging applications of new media can help to foster and strengthen participatory democracy.
Check out Clinton’s question and the tens of thousands (and counting) of user-submitted answers.
Read SearchEngineJournal’s blog post about this.
On the Diebold Election Systems website you could find, until yesterday morning, the photo below of the little keys that open ALL of their e-voting machines. Could a hacker create a duplicate key from the Diebold website photo? Gee, I wonder…
Concerned citizen Ross Kinard of SploitCast decided to find out:
“I bought three blank [...]
CBS News’ Baghdad Correspondent Lara Logan recently sent out an e-mail pleading for friends and colleagues to push CBS to air her “Battle of Haifa Street” report on any of their news programs. They have thus far agreed only to post the video on their Web site. Watch it here and you’ll see why they’re [...]
Read lara logan’s plea from baghdad »Over the past month or so, announcements from presidential hopefuls have been delivered via webcasts posted on Youtube and other video-sharing sites (you can view them here). And it’s just the beginning of a new overall approach. Candidates are promising to engage directly with voters via new media, creating webcasts, blogs, and online chat. When [...]
Read cnn: “Obama not radical muslim” »
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How come street art keeps getting better? Because it’s so utterly necessary, baby!


Money 101: Tara Graham breaks down the current economic crisis, complete with history and analysis for your addled eyes (and pocketbooks).
Brian Frank went to the McCain-Palin rally in Carson and lived to tell about it.
For gay couples, neither candidate in Thursday’s VP debate offered anything remotely resembling change. Tara Graham takes them to task.
Mark Evitt takes a hard look at the recent Village Voice firings and the state of print media in general.
Ryan Barrett takes you through her own person Spin Room on last week’s Vice-Presidential debate.
Tara Graham hits you with the week in gossip. Catch up on the brain candy.
Emily Henry takes a look at the new import HBO sketch-comedy series Little Britain USA
Missed your dose of gossip last week? Tara Graham rounds up all of the juicy tidbits. (Spoiler: Clay Aiken is gay)
Confused by the pro-corn syrup commercials you’ve been seeing lately? You’re not alone. Mark Evitt breaks it down for you.
Chris Nelson weighs in on Obama’s candidacy, the punditry poison, and the speech from Invesco Field.
Max Zimbert interviews some political heavyweights on the Dem’s chances in Ohio and Iowa.
The P+P crew gives a Cribs-style walk-through of their sick DNC digs.
More on the epic Wyclef performance from Chris Nelson, including a sick photo gallery and descriptions of the electric vibe at the event.
Torey Van Oot gets ex-Fugee Wyclef Jean to share his thoughts on courting the Latino vote for Obama.




