Tag: pop culture
member name: gil asakawa
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October 05, 2006 08:27 PM EDT --
Note: This article, in edited form, will be included in an upcoming book edited by G. Brown, about the history of Denver's Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
I can point to several reasons for why I became . . .
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December 21, 2006 01:35 AM EST --
Note: The article I just posted got me to thinking about a column I wrote way back in the day, before blogs were a twinkle in some developer's eye, about Asians on TV. It's posted in the archives . . .
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October 27, 2006 01:40 AM EDT --
Happy 5th birthday to the iPod.
I was kind of slow to get on the bandwagon, mostly because it was (and still is, although not as much) so damned expensive to join the iPod club.
But like a lot of people, . . .
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December 26, 2006 08:52 PM EST --
James Brown died on Christmas day, a typically dramatic move for the 73-year-old, self-described “Godfather of Soul,” who was known for dramatic endings in concert.
The news of his death caught . . .
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December 29, 2006 01:05 AM EST --
I don't have a lot of memories of New Year celebrations in Japan.
New year's ozoni soup.
I was only 8 when we moved to the States, so I was never allowed to - or able to - stay up until . . .
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September 27, 2006 09:04 AM EDT --
The Japanese are crazy about anything Western, especially anything American, right? It's true in many ways and on many levels, but one of my passions as a pop-culture critic has been to note how Americans . . .
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November 26, 2006 10:45 PM EST --
It took the urging of Cirque du Soleil, the acrobatic dance performance group, to bring the music of the Beatles – the most iconic of 1960s baby boomer musical catalogs -- into the 21st century. . . .
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April 19, 2007 01:47 PM EDT --
It's silly, and I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, but Erin and I are addicted to "Dancing with the Stars" this season. We hadn't watched it at all in the past, but began tuning . . .
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September 26, 2006 09:19 PM EDT --
Pitchfork has published a rambling list of the "200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s," beginning with the Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon" at 200 and the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" . . .
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February 04, 2007 09:34 PM EST --
I dunno about you, but I find it fascinating that Prince played the Super Bowl halftime show tonight. It’s good to see him again, and damn, he looks good and he’s hot, ripping up the guitar . . .
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February 02, 2008 02:42 AM EST --
When Erin and I traveled to Hawai'i last September, we spent several days at the home of my cousin Laura McHugh and her husband John, in Mililani, northwest of Honolulu. I didn't write about it . . .
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September 17, 2006 10:55 AM EDT --
One of my ongoing passions is pondering the passing of pop culture references. Baby boomers have lived through decades of new hip phrases -- for instance, the hip word for "good" has evolved . . .
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January 27, 2007 12:40 AM EST --
One of the cool things about traveling to LA is getting to watch KDOC, a local station that unearths old TV shows and airs them. For some reason, whenever I'm in town I get to tune in to old episodes . . .
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January 14, 2008 01:32 AM EST --
Michaela Conlin as Angela Montenegro and Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance Brennan in "Bones."
The best thing about DVDs is the opportunity to fall in love with television . . .
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October 11, 2006 08:10 AM EDT --
Note: I'm re-posting this because when I orginally posted it, it was under the ID boomers.gather.com. I'm leaving that one up since there are a couple of comments on it and links to it. But I wanted . . .
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November 23, 2008 12:53 PM EST --
Folks, I've been away from Gather, because I've been postong on my own blog at nikkeiview.com. But I thought some of you might want to click over and read my latest, about Betty James and the . . .
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December 21, 2006 01:21 AM EST --
When "Survivor" announced its just-ended season, I was one of the many critics who thought splitting up the tribes along racial factors was a stupid and potentially harmful idea. After just two . . .
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April 22, 2007 06:01 PM EDT --
I don't watch "American Idol" ("Dancing with the Stars" is enough reality TV for me), but I've been mildly curious about this 17-year-old kid, Sanjaya Malakar, who managed to . . .
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October 05, 2006 02:21 PM EDT --
Audrey Hepburn, one of the great, classic actresses of Hollywood of the '50s and '60s, may have died in 1993, but she's alive and well in American pop culture.
Her name, and the 1961 . . .
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October 08, 2006 10:35 AM EDT --
Authors' note: "The Toy Book" is a social history of baby boomer-era toys. This is an excerpt from "The Big Bang Theory" chapter, which starts out covering the cowboy craze of the . . .
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