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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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  • Half-Cocked: Yet Another Crime Prevented By Common Sense Gun Laws…


    AmmoLand.com — Authority Authority: 576
    Yet Another Crime Prevented By Common Sense Gun Laws – Half-Cocked Cartoons by My Gun Culture About: Tom McHale describes himself as a conservative gun-totin’ bible-clingin’ literary assault dude who enjoys finding humor in just about anything. His web blog My Gun Culture is an irreverent, twisted ...
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  • An Animated History of Human Communication: 1965 Educational Film about the Telephone


    Brain Pickings — Authority Authority: 728
    Barely a decade into the age of the social web, it’s already difficult to remember — or imagine — how the world operated before it. As difficult, perhaps, as it was for kids in the 1960s to imagine a world before the telephone. We Learn About The Telephone is a 1965 educational film that traces the ...
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  • Pokemon Trading Card Marriage Proposal Is Super Effective


    Walyou — Authority Authority: 128
    Nothing says “forever yours” like a marriage proposal in the shape of a Pokémon trading card by one cool boyfriend to his bride to be. In no way am I a trustworthy authority on the subject of Pokémon trading cards. Heck, up till this point, I didn’t even know kids still played ... Continue Reading on Walyou
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  • Gastrologik – a restaurant in Stockholm with high ambitions


    David Report blog — Authority Authority: 103
    The founders of  Gastrologik   have a mission – to create  a good restaurant that is an interaction between the kitchen and service, the food and guests, the premises and the interior, between consciousness and unconsciousness and between logic and gastronomy. This is the philosophy of Jacob Holmström and ...
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  • [links] Link salad staggers toward the weekend


    jlake.com — Authority Authority: 498
    A reader reacts to Green Protocols and The Spectacle of Reading Fantastika These 24 Books Have Actually Been Published Academic Competitions – State of Jefferson Academic Scavenger Hunt 2012 – Middle School — Holy Pete, these are tough questions. (Via tillyjane , a/k/a my mom.) Embracing the ...
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  • Chinese New Years Fireworks 2012


    SkyscraperCity — Authority Authority: 151
    Fireworks in the city of Guangzhou 24-1-2012 http://www.lvwo.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=19917
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  • (Christian Post) Pastors Debate ‘Should Denominations Go Away?’


    TitusOneNine — Authority Authority: 437
    Seven influential megachurch pastors took part in live unscripted discussions on different approaches to ministry in the second round of The Elephant Room – an event billed as "conversations you never thought youd hear" from pastors. Held in Aurora, Ill., and broadcast to over 70 locations around the U.S., the ...
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  • Old music: Loudon Wainwright III - Motel Blues


    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 961
    The life of the touring musician isnt all Rolls Royces in swimming pools, as this old nugget proves Being a touring musician is just one big peripatetic piss-up, isnt it? A riot of adoring fans, free booze and women (or men) as you barrel merrily from one exotic location to the next. Trust a songwriter as singular as ...
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  • Coca-Cola Super Bowl 2012 Ads and Live Viewing Events with Polar Bears Coming


    I4U News — Authority Authority: 505
    Coca-Cola is bringing back the animated Polar Bears to the Super Bowl 2012. The Coca-Cola Super Bowl 2012 Ads will feature the two cute bears rooting for each of the two Super Bowl teams. The Coca-...
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  • Why do gays want the right to marry? Simple: freedom (support the Mayors for the Freedom to Marry)


    Scholars and Rogues — Authority Authority: 541
    by Marti Smith “If all we feel is outrage, then we have not found a remedy.”- Jim Geringer, Governor, State of Wyoming, following Matthew Shepard’s death Since I was a young girl and old enough to understand who I was, I have known discrimination. It hardens your heart and dampens your soul until you ...
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  • From Mark Twain to Ray Bradbury, Iconic Writers on Truth vs. Fiction


    Brain Pickings — Authority Authority: 728
    Why art exists, or what a stage magician can teach us about the fine points of literary make-believe. Famous writers have previously shared insights on symbolism , reading , and writing itself . Underlying many of these meditations is a broader curiosity about the intricate interplay of fact and fantasy. To ...
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  • Six to watch: TV soldiers


    Television & radio: TV and radio blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 103
    With Eddie Redmaynes performance in Birdsong dividing viewers, we take a look at the dramas featuring some of TVs finest soldiers The BBC is having something of a happy new year when it comes to Sunday-night drama, with Call the Midwife providing bumper ratings , and Sherlock giving drama fans a welcome January ...
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  • Scottish independence wont cut off British literature


    Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 104
    English and Scottish literature have always been complicated hybrids, and separating the nations wont change that Just before Alex Salmond gave the Hugo Young lecture , I received an email from the Scottish government announcing their plan to make it compulsory for every schoolchild doing "English" in Scotland to ...
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  • Persepolis trial in Tunisia is postponed again


    top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority Authority: 162
    http://www.guardian.co.uk Persepolis trial in Tunisia is postponed again Trial of Tunisian TV station accused of ‘insulting sacred values’ of Islam for screening Marjane Satrapi’s animated film is adjourned until April following further altercationsA trial of a Tunisian TV station charged with ...
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  • The Hajj exhibition is in stark contrast to Saudi Arabia’s cultural vandalism | Shenaz Kermali


    top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority Authority: 162
    http://www.guardian.co.uk The Hajj exhibition is in stark contrast to Saudi Arabia’s cultural vandalism | Shenaz Kermali The Saudi elite are proud of the British Museum’s Hajj exhibition – it’s a shame they don’t feel the same about all their heritageThe Saudi embassy and their friends in Riyadh ...
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  • Robert Hegyes “Welcome Back Kotter” fame dead at 60


    Pop Crunch — Authority Authority: 548
    Robert Hegyes, more commonly known for the role he portrayed on Welcome Back Kotter” of Juan Epstein, has died. The actor suffered an apparent heart-attack at his New Jersey home [...]
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  • DAngelo – review


    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 961
    Filadelfiakyrkan, Stockholm DAngelo is no stranger to spells of absence from the spotlight; since starting out in the early 90s, the "prince of soul" has only released two albums, with a 5-year gap between 1995s Brown Sugar and the follow-up, Voodoo . The problem is that his latest hiatus is surrounded by ...
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  • Chapo Ba: Jean Price-Mars, Ethnologist


    Kreyolicious.com — Authority Authority: 107
    Most people would dub him the father of Haitian Ethnology, but to most in his lifetime, he was Dr. Jean Price-Mars . Dr. Price Mars saw the light of day on October 1876 (some records have listed 1875), in Grand Rivière du Nord to Mr. Jean Eleomont Mars and the former Miss Fortuna Delcour Michel. It has been ...
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  • Global Game Jam tackles the issue of accessibility


    Technology: Games blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 109
    Thousands of coders are taking part in a global game development challenge, and many are being encouraged to consider a specific audience: gamers with disabilities The annual Global Game Jam kicks off on Friday, with thousands of coders around the world gathering in hundreds of different venues to spend the weekend ...
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  • Persepolis trial in Tunisia is postponed again


    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 961
    Trial of Tunisian TV station accused of insulting sacred values of Islam for screening Marjane Satrapis animated film is adjourned until April following further altercations A trial of a Tunisian TV station charged with "insulting sacred values" by screening the award-winning film Persepolis resumed earlier this ...
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