Marc Jacobs and Melrose Place : The Week in Pop-Culture Writing
Changing My Mind About Marc Jacobs’s Grunge Collection Cathy Horyn | The Cut "Why did so many critics allow no room on the American runways for a look that was legitimately an expression of impertinent new values—about alternative beauty, unaffected glamour, anti-luxury?"
Madrose Place: What Mad Men and Melrose Have in Common Molly Haskell | Grantland "Mad Men is a subtle melodrama, and Melrose Place is a campy riot. They’re both wildly entertaining, showing us ugly truths about human behavior but seducing us anyway."
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Everything I Needed to Know About Writing, I Learned From Paid In Full Tim Carmody | Medium "Eric B and Rakim’s album Paid In Full is ... that rarest of things: a collection of amazing writing, by a writer, for writers, about writing, that you actually enjoy. It doesn’t feel like work."
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The Nerd Hunter Stephen Rodrick | The New Yorker "Jones has helped give rise to a new kind of American comedy."
Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock Wants To Be More Than A Myth Jonathan Valania | Buzzfeed "Most people don’t know it, but there are actually five, not four, time zones in the United States: Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, and Isaac time."
That Time the Avengers Battled Scientology Abraham Riesman | Vulture "The turn of the millennium was a weird period for superhero comics."
Goodbye to Language Doesn’t Mean Goodbye to Comprehension Andrew Lapin | The Dissolve "Seeing a film when you are the only person who can’t understand the dialogue is like listening to a song with the vocal track cut out."
For All of Tidal's Talk of Transparency, We Still Have No Idea How They're Helping Artists Gus Turner | Complex "The lossless feature isn't an upgrade so much as it is a proxy for the more difficult conversation that Tidal doesn't want to have. They don't want to get into it with anyone about fairness and competition."
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This article was originally published at http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/04/the-week-in-pop-culture-writing/389264/?UTM_SOURCE=yahoo
