Star Wars ” Lumpawarroo thereby leaves us with Schrödinger’s Lucas, a creature suspended in creative superposition, simultaneously brilliant and foolish” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 November 2015 …to propose that Jar Jar was an evil genius, one has to accept that...
Hip-Hop, Music, Pop Culture “Minaj may have had a fair amount of influence over the fact that pop stars are constantly telling us they’re bosses…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 November 2015 Minaj may have had a fair amount of influence over the fact that pop...
Politics in America, Television “As a reality TV professional, I would be lucky to strike gold like Donald Trump once or twice in a career” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 October 2015 I’ve been working in reality television for 10 years, and I can tell you...
Politics in America, Television “Donald Trump is the presidential candidate that reality TV made” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 October 2015 Donald Trump is the presidential candidate that reality TV made. An electorate trained in...
Entertainment, Politics in America “The bleed of entertainment into politics is hardly new. It’s been rued and prophesied for many decades…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 October 2015 We now utterly conflate entertainment and politics, routinely confuse celebrity with authority and regularly...
Movies, Star Wars “…whenever a “Force Awakens” tidbit has been divulged, the reaction has been like food sprinkled over a piranha tank” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 September 2015 Interest in “The Force Awakens” is already so extreme that Disney knows its safest...
Movies “Members of the Marvel security team on the set spoke of ‘bloggers’ the way Dick Cheney once invoked a ‘global terror network'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 August 2015 Members of the Marvel security team on the set spoke of ‘‘bloggers’’ the way...
Hip-Hop, Radio “In a sense, classic hip-hop is following a radio trend that began in the early 1970s…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 August 2015 The Beat, and stations like it, target listeners in their mid-20s to mid-40s: people...
Movies, Star Wars “People don’t give George [Lucas] the credit that he deserves” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 August 2015 People don’t give George the credit that he deserves. The work he did on...
Books, Internet “Reading on-screen tempts us to see things only through the pinhole of our immediate curiosity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 August 2015 Reading on-screen tempts us to see things only through the pinhole of our immediate...