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”

 

• Stupid White People “Applaud” Their Extinction? WTF???

  
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• Carnegie medal winner Sally Gardner attacks Gove

  
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  Sally Gardner wins the most prestigious childrens books prize with dystopic novel Maggot Moon and uses the prize-giving ceremony to slam Goves outdated new curriculum Dyslexic author Sally Gardner, who today won the Carnegie medal for her dystopian story of a boy standing up to a totalitarian state, has slammed ...
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• Where are all the female DJs?

  
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  From Annie Mac to Éclair Fifi, women are grabbing more airtime than ever, but the decks still feel stacked against them At a BBC Academys Radio Fast Train panel discussion in 2012 about the best way to break into the radio DJ business, Annie Mac blurted out: "More women in specialist!" It was a footnote to the ...
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• Levi Pinfolds Black Dog - in pictures

  
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• Our Church by Roger Scruton – review

  
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  Its heart is in the right place but this account of Anglicanisms past is full of Victorian cliches and misrepresentations I begin this review with a declaration of interest. Roger Scruton and I are rather alike. When very young, we watched our present queens coronation on small black-and-white televisions, our first ...
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• Our Church by Roger Scruton – review

  
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  Its heart is in the right place but this account of Anglicanisms past is full of Victorian cliches and misrepresentations I begin this review with a declaration of interest. Roger Scruton and I are rather alike. When very young, we watched our present queens coronation on small black-and-white televisions, our first ...
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• Two Decades of Bill Nye the Science Guy: An App-y Commemoration

  
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  Bill Nye the Science Guy turns 20 this year (as in the show, not the guy - hes 57), and to mark two decades of demystifying the sciences, the official Bill Nye the Science Guy (free) app has just been released in celebration. Like the host himself, the app is quirky, zany, and full of fascinating science ...
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• Shubbak festival: a refuge for Arab culture at a troubled time

  
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• Shubbak festival: a refuge for Arab culture at a troubled time

  
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  How can a festival celebrate a region gripped with conflict? Omar al-Qattan explains Shubbak, Londons Middle Eastern extravaganza These are troubled times to be putting on a festival celebrating a culture that is, on several levels and in different regions of its rich geography, tearing itself apart. Three ...
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• Chattel Reduction

  
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  I noted this morning at gym that the superstitious poltroons in the Yankee government council of thieves has voted to reduce the rights of female citizens. Sadly, they feel no shame for their evil. government , tyranny , abortion
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• Talk Is Great, But Action Is What Works...

  
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  Almost 100 crimes in Dartford were committed using weapons in the past year, News Shopper can reveal. The campaigning mother of Sidcup knife victim Rob Knox says she is not surprised by the figure, obtained through a Freedom of Information request. Im not surprised by the figure, either. Though for a very ...
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• The Star Rests Over Methlehem

  
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• Maurice Sendak Illustrates Tolstoy

  
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  Soulful drawings of sorrow and love by the young and insecure artist. In 1961, legendary editor Ursula Norstrom sent young Maurice Sendak an exquisite letter of creative encouragement as he was spiraling into self-doubt while working on a children’s adaptation of Nikolenka’s Childhood ( public ...
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• James Daviess top 10 psychiatry critiques

  
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• James Daviess top 10 psychiatry critiques

  
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  The author of Cracked selects a battery of books that challenge received wisdom about mental illness and how to treat it I wrote Cracked: Why Psychiatry Is Doing More Harm Than Good because of the huge gulf between what most people believe about psychiatric diagnoses and medications and what the evidence actually ...
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• Man of Steel marketing campaign seeks to align Superman with Jesus

  
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  Dedicated website invites clergymen to utilise Superman myth as a mechanism for educating and uplifting Christian audiences Hollywood studio Warner Bros is targeting Christian audiences in the US with a campaign for its superhero blockbuster Man of Steel that explicitly compares Superman to Jesus . The studio ...
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• Portlandia spoofs fixed gear cyclists - video

  
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  Saturday Night Lives Fred Armisen stars in this clip from US sketch show Portlandia, which sends up the residents of the Oregon city        
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• Blog of the week: Teshno

  
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  Blog jam : The ideal site for house and techno fans looking to while away an afternoon Who are you and whats your blog called? Im a freelance music writer, Kristan J Caryl, who runs teshno.com as my naughty bit on the side. Where are you based? A musical hotspot like London or Berlin would be too easy. I ...
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• Newcastles Ryder Architecture celebrates 60 years of modernism

  
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  Its founders trained with Lubetkin and Le Corbusier. But while some of the companys important early buildings are protected, some are being pulled down to make way for new homes In pictures: view David Bilboroughs gallery of Ryder buildings In 1953, two young architects, Peter Yates and Gordon Ryder, bumped into ...
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• Newcastles Ryder Architecture celebrates 60 years of modernism

  
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  Its founders trained with Lubetkin and Le Corbusier. But while some of the companys important early buildings are protected, some are being pulled down to make way for new homes In pictures: view David Bilboroughs gallery of Ryder buildings In 1953, two young architects, Peter Yates and Gordon Ryder, bumped into ...
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