Ugly helps keep Victoria beautiful

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

Need something to do this weekend? How about helping to keep Victoria beautiful by doing something ugly. Er...well, listening to something Ugly. Local rock band, Pop Rocks Ugly, will be hosting a live music event at the Athey Nature Area ...

Vegans, raw foodists, gluten-free-ists...lend me your ears

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

With concern growing for America's collective expanding waistline, a small but growing movement of people are shunning the traditional U.S. diet of fast and cheap food and turning to various alternatives. There's the slow food movement. The raw food movement. ...

iLame: Apple losing some coolness points with Gen Y

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

Blame it on fickle youth or perhaps the fact they named a product after a menstrual cycle, but Apple has lost some of its cool factor. According to AppleInsider.com, a survey of 18-to-34-year-old adults found that in April, Apple showed ...

The Salt Wars

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

Taking a break from The Cigarette Wars for a while, the world is now fighting a new battle. The new enemy? Salt. Yes, rumor has it that the new national dietary guidelines due this spring will lower the recommended levels ...

Wanna be a superhero?

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

Many of you have probably heard about the new movie coming out in a couple of weeks called "Kick Ass" (and no that's not me gratuitously cursing, that's actually the name of the movie). Based on the comic book of ...

The end of the hipster (my condolences to Urban Outfitters)

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

Well, it seems like the era of the hipster is, like, so over. Not only has mainstream media picked up the term (the ultimate kiss of death for any trend or counter-culture movement...remember how they assassinated grunge?) but the signature ...

The Japanese remake "We Are The World"...and it's EPIC

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

There are few YouTube videos out there in the world that can change your life. The few exceptions might be the people traumatized by "Two Girls, One Cup" and anyone who was unfortunate enough to sit through the Chupacabra trilogy ...

I hear Costa Rica is beautiful this time of year

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

We've all been guilty of saying things that have eventually come back to bite us in the, well, considering this is a family newspaper, I'll just say "rear." Case in point, late last year I publicly said that if it ...

Jane Austen and the Zombie Apocalypse

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single literary classic in possession of a good reputation must be in want of some zombies. Lots of them. Or at least that's what the latest publishing industry trend tells us. For ...

Women's health (you know, down there) getting make-over

By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture

I'll be honest. I don't know what flowers and puppies and grassy fields and teenage girls twirling and giggling have to do with (insert embarrassed whisper here) "feminine products," but what I do know is that according to the people ...