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Turkey Hotline

A celebration of turkey and pop culture just in time for the holidays—including how a telephone hotline somehow combined all three.

Culture In A Dangerous Time

Finding comfort in a scary cultural moment from the modern digital landscape. Thankfully, we still have the internet to saturate us in offbeat popular culture.

Pumpkin-Spice Pop Culture

The spooky, symbiotic relationship between Halloween and pop culture. We’ll be right back, after these messages.

The Bagdasarian Effect

How one man’s discovery of a clever sound effect gave us Alvin and the Chipmunks, one of the most enduring novelty musical acts of all time.

The Lazies

Is the great icon of bad film awards missing the boat in the modern era? Some thoughts on the overly broad, overly obvious Razzie nominations.

The New Millennium Blues

The pop-culture panic leading up to the year 2000. Did all the Y2K TV movies, musical parodies, and animated homages make the problem worse?

Christmas In Clay

Pondering why a well-received Claymation holiday special, turning 30 this year, hasn’t become a lasting holiday classic like most of the other junk on TV.

The Big Data Jukebox

When AllMusic launched 25 years ago, it wasn't an obvious big data play. But it became one. Hidden in its millions of entries is music's collective history.

A Tale of Creative Destruction

In the early '90s, a UK acid house duo called The KLF briefly became the country's biggest act. Then, they threw it all away and burned the money for art.

Livin' on the Edge

People will always push the edges of creativity when they can—that's why we have Marilyn Manson. Today's issue analyzes art and decency.
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