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Transgender singer duets with himself
By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture
Move over, transgender pregnant man. There's a new transgender shaking up the headlines. Today in wacky gender-bender news, hip hop singer and dancer Joshua Klipp has released an EP which features the song "Little Girl." According to a press release, ...
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Rocky Horror remake? Say it ain't so...
By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture
When will people learn you should not mess with campy perfection? It seems that there is going to be a remake done of the classic "Rocky Horror Picture Show," folks. According to Yahoo News, it's being revived in a partnership ...
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Can't keep up with your online life?
By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture
It started out simply enough. I had just moved to Texas and needed a cheap way to stay in contact with all my friends and family in Ohio. So I joined Myspace. And it was the most wicked awesome thing ...
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Nothing is more important than this haircut
By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture
What's worse than the non-stop barrage of media attention surrounding the she-bot known as Katie Holmes? Oh, I-don't-know, how about the non-stop barrage of media attention her hair gets? True story, there is an article on CNN.com about none other ...
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Imagine that...sex still sells
By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture
But have some companies taken their racy marketing campaigns too far? That's the question being brought up by bloggers, media experts and parents recently after a slew of sexy ads have popped up advertising everything from TV shows (hello "Gossip Girl") to ...
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Inside the world of Internet trolls
By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture
Even if you've only spent minimal time on that wide, wide world web, chances are you've encountered an Internet troll. You know, those anonymous online posters who gather at discussion forums and blogs and intentionally try to bait and cyber-bully ...
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By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture
Call me behind the times (considering this publication has been around since 1994), but as I was postponing doing any actual "work" this evening, I ran into a Web site that has swiftly risen to my top 10 (right behind ...
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Are commercials starting to cross the line?
By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture
Or has our culture merely become too sensitive and (I can already hear the groans) too politically correct ? Well, kids, here's an interesting article on just that very topic. According to the Web site www.adage.com, uproars over a recent ...
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By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture
So I was working intensely on various big and important stories this afternoon (re: randomly surfing the 'Net), when I came across this eye-opening video that was created by a 20-something filmmaker. The video, which can be seen here or ...
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How to insult female gamers...
By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture
Oh, I don't know, how about making video games that border on sexist...and if not sexist, than at least ridiculously stupid. It seems Paramount, in all its money-hungry glory, is coming out with a series of video games based off ...