Monday, July 1, 2024

Pop Culture Lunch Box has moved to Substack! Check us out there!

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Sunday, June 30, 2024

Great Newspaper Reads: Eddie Murphy makes #2 on my list of favorite Saturday Night Live players

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In honor of Eddie Murphy’s upcoming Netflix movie Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, The New York Times makes him this subject of The Interview thi...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Cahokia, Illinois is a key example to how robust life was in the Americas long before Christopher Columbus

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The Americas prior to Christopher Columbus were far from the untouched wilderness we have long been taught in school. They were instead a co...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

The right way and the wrong way to bring Girl Power

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I just watched two very different, I suppose you could call them, "girl power" movies - one whose role in history played a major r...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Thurston Moore's autobiography surprisingly leaves too much off the table

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I'm a big reader of rock-music books, and it's not that often that I find a rock bio about (and especially by) one of my favorite ar...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Great Magazine Reads: First impressions don’t always matter, like when it comes to Pearl Jam

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I was always much more on the side of the Nirvana/Mudhoney/Screaming Trees family tree of 1990s Seattle grunge. I flat-out didn't like P...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

Unfrosted tells a lovable origin story of the Pop Tart wars

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The unhealthy diets and tummy aches of the Civil War-era led a drive to culinary innovation, and by baking water and graham flour, Dr. James...
Friday, June 21, 2024

Wilco continues to play rock concerts that just can't be beat for me

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I've seen quite a few Wilco concerts, and it's good to know the band still has it. Last night's show at Wolftrap in Virginia was...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

We are part of Sapiens, which is just one of the multiple human species that have existed

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I've started reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind , by Yuval Noah Harari, and - if you're interested in people at all - it&...

RIP Willie Mays

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I didn’t go baseball crazy until the late 1970s, so I missed all the hoopla by a handful of years. But anyone who knows a little about the g...