Culture

The word "culture" is frequently used for a nations or groups tastes and preferences in art, cuisine, music, books, fashion, and manners.

Terms like popular culture or mass culture often refer to mainstream music, movies, activities, and so forth. High culture usually refers to the fine arts. Sometimes the term "mid-brow" is used to designate a book or movie that is intellectually driven yet maintains popular accessibility. "High brow" would be high culture, while "low brow" would be low culture.

Some writers say that popular culture needs defending from the high-culture crowd.

The blogosphere has its cultural commentators, while online magazines like Slate and Salon also critique several aspects of culture.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Culture”

• GroveHouse Artists gallery opening invitation 1/2/10

  
  Soul Of Miami — Authority: 453
  GroveHouse Artists invites you to stop by the gallery Saturday, Jan 2, 2010 7pm to 9 pm located in the Shops at Mayfair, Space 162 in Coconut Grove Featuring the photography of GroveHouse member Mari Visser and Small Wonders Exhibit, artworks no larger than 144 square inches Light refreshments will be served
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• True Genius

  
  AAA-Fund Blog — Authority: 137
  Salman Khan, the creator of the Khan Academy . What’s beats being good at math and science?  Helping thousands across the globe discover the joy of learning (via SF Chronicle ): During the years Salman Khan spent scrutinizing financials for hedge funds, he rationalized the profit-obsessed work by telling ...
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• Destino Photographs by Mayumi Hasegawa opening at Zu Galeria 1/9/10

  
  Soul Of Miami — Authority: 453
  Zu Galeria Fine Arts is proud to present 2010’s first exhibit, Destino: Photographs by Mayumi Hasegawa Mayumi Hasegawa is a young photographer. Her continuous travels all over the world have given her a certain maturity, a certain vision of each new city she visits. Her passion comes thru in various sunsets in ...
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• MSNBC Report: Baucus Blasting NewsBusters

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 817
  MSNBC reported this afternoon that Max Baucus is "blasting right-wing websites like Drudge and NewsBusters" for suggesting he was drunk on the Senate floor during the health care debate.  See P.J. Gladnicks Bizarre Baucus Behavior on Senate Floor Ignored by MSM. But MSNBC did the Montana senator no favors: 1. ...
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• The Decade in Review: Looking Back on 10 Years in Green (Slideshow)

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 608
  Image credit: america.gov /Flickr In the somber wake of COP15, its easy to feel disheartened with the environmental movement and the worlds failure to make the effort necessary to combat climate change.Climate change, without question, emerges from the 2000s as the cause of the environmental movement. The decade ...
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• Anglican churches in Western Canada file appeal

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 587
  St. Matthews Anglican Church in Abbotsford is among those involved in an appeal filed against a B.C. Supreme Court decision that could have forced them to vacate their properties. Cheryl Chang, in-house legal advisor for the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC), said the appeal was filed on Christmas Eve in order to ...
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• Couple stranded for 3 days by GPS that doesn’t grok snow

  
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  GPS leaves couple stuck in snow for 4 days.
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• Patrick J. Buchanan: Is America’s decline irreversible?

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 538
  "At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the question is not whether we will preside over the creation of a New World Order, but whether America’s decline is irreversible."
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• WSJ Documents Crisis And Leviathan, 2009

  
  Top Gun Financial Planning — Authority: 118
  The frontier between the state and market has shifted.  The realm of the state has been enlarged. - Daniel Yergin, author of 1998’s The Commanding Heights which chronicled the ascent of free market forces starting in the 1980s, quoted in “After the Bailouts, Washington’s the Boss” , The Wall Street ...
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• What Our Generation Needs Most...

  
  By Every Word... — Authority: 128
  "...There is nothing that our generation needs more than to hear the Word of God -- and this at a time of biblical illiteracy rising at an astonishing rate. Moreover it needs to hear Christian leaders personally submitting to Scripture, personally reading and teaching Scripture -- not in veiled ways that merely ...
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• Shuster: Baucus Sober, Drudge Repulsive

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 817
  Wow: David Shuster really lets it all hang out on Twitter . . . In current tweets, the MSNBCer accuses Karl Rove of "hypocrisy," calls conservatives "wingnuts," claims Baucus wasnt wasted, and denounces Drudge as "repulsive" for supposedly suggesting otherwise. Excerpts from Shusters current Twitter feed ...
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• Sport. Scoop. Save.

  
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  20% OFF Every Monday in January Show up at any Kidrobot store decked out in a Kidrobot hoodie or shirt and receive 20% off your apparel purchase. Sport some gear. Scoop some gear. Save some cash. Who says Mondays have to suck? Only at Kidrobot store locations. KIDROBOT NEW YORK 118 Prince Street New York, NY ...
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• Word.

  
  21-7 Magazine: Blog — Authority: 151
  All lasting business is built on friendship. -Alfred A. Montapert
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• REWIND: Why I Reject Gay Culture

  
  The New Gay — Authority: 492
  Photo by Hans from the TNG Flickr Pool The recent Washington Post article featuring TNG co-founder Zack did a decent job of charactarizing what we are trying to do with this site. However, it got one aspect wrong: that TNG is a resource for young people. The article impled that our efforts are for the Gen-Y ...
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• Karate Kitchen Tools - The Chuck Norris Cutting Board Gets Vegetables to Cut Themselves

  
  TrendHunter.com - Marketing Strategy — Authority: 685
  (TrendHunter.com) Sometimes when you find a great product, you need to share the wealth and tell everyone about what could be the greatest thing on the planet: the Chuck Norris Cutting Board.This is an actual working…
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• I knew Elvis

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  His childhood friend, his maid, his doctor, his girlfriend . . . for the 75th anniversary of Presleys birth, Michael Freedland travels America to meet the people who were close to the King Sam Bell used to go to the movies with Elvis Presley. It was the 1950s, Elvis was about 12 years old, and he and Sam were very ...
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• No, Were Not a Broken People

  
  Let's Try Democracy — Authority: 131
  By David Swanson In 2004 I began speaking at rallies and forums around the country on issues of peace and justice, something Ive done off-and-on ever since. Up through 2008, it was extremely unusual for questions from the audience to consist of pure defeatism. In 2009, it was rare to get through a Q&A session ...
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• The Reading Room with special guest Rosemarie Chiarlone 1/8/10

  
  Soul Of Miami — Authority: 453
  The Reading Room A Temporary Space for Artists’ Books, Publications and Multiples Main Library – Children’s Room, 101 W. Flagler Street, Miami Friday, January 8 Noon – 2 p.m. With special guest: Rosemarie Chiarlone On the second Friday of each month, a secret room in the Children’s Room at the Main Library ...
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• Golden Globe Noms Shine Light On Worthy Programs

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 754
  The Golden Globe nominations were released last week. As usual, many of the television categories were dominated with long-running programs. However, a few new shows received welcome nominations, a boost that could lend more credibility to these freshmen programs.  “Glee” was one of the new major nominees ...
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• Christ and Culture Reading List

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 482
  Richard Wolfe wrote to the HB to ask for about reading that he and his pastor might do in preparation for the upcoming WSC faculty conference, Christ, Kingdom, and Culture. In response I thought of the “Christ and culture” volumes that were either influential on my thinking or important to the history of the ...
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