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”

 

• Faith Enquired

  
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  Mundane day again, week in and back to gym. Schule has been desessioned long enough for some of the educationalists, most administrative weight bouncers, to have returned. Happily they are not loud, only threatening. Along which azimuth I noted an article [ Link ] last week entitled “Testing the Faith of the ...
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• Book Review : Alex Garland - The Beach (1997)

  
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  Order THE BEACH here I lit my second cigarette of the day, not wanting it, just feeling it was the right thing to do. Here is a great example of how a teenager thinks. I never watched the movie adaptation of THE BEACH , featuring teenage heartthrob of then Leonardo Di Caprio and my reasons had nothing ...
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• Afghan police chief survives car bomb attack

  
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  An Afghan police chief survived a suicide car bomb attack on his convoy that wounded three officers early on Monday, officials said. It was the latest apparent attempt on a commander’s life in an intense Taliban assassination campaign. Broken glass and the charred remains of the bomber’s car were strewn in a main ...
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• Rahman infuses spirituality in ‘Raanjhanaa’ music: Sonam Kapoor

  
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• Willem Dafoe: ‘Don’t make this into a crackpot profile, please’

  
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  The actor famous for being game for anything talks about his passion for physical theatre, his attraction to strong directors – but declines to comment on the size of his penis
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• Well, Stop Them Defining ‘Vital Services’ For Themselves, Then…

  
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  Dozens of local authorities are on the brink of financial collapse but ministers have failed to come up with adequate contingency plans to prop up vital services , according to a committee of MPs. Oh, really? ‘Vital services’, eh..? Hodge warned that some councils may have no option but to cut services ...
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• Street art and Graffiti festival

  
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  In a warm summer day the boring walls on one of the streets in Bishkek have found a new breath. On June, 16 there was the 5th International festival of contemporary street art and graffiti, participants of which were the painters from Germany, France, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The Youth Art Initiative ...
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• أفلام فرنسية وعربية، أمسية شعرية، صراع الهويات، والمزيد

  
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  يستمر مهرجان الفيلم الفرنسي العربي هذا الأسبوع، مقدماً برنامجاً مكثفاً لعروض مجانية لأفلام بالعربية و/أو بالفرنسية في أماكن مختلفة في عمّان، منها “كيس الطحين” ...
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• Pictured: ‘zombie’ commuters ditch cars and walk amid massive Beijing traffic jam

  
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  Users on Sina Weibo liken the scene to a zombie apocalypse. Read the original here: Pictured: ‘zombie’ commuters ditch cars and walk amid massive Beijing traffic jam The post Pictured: ‘zombie’ commuters ditch cars and walk amid massive Beijing traffic jam appeared first on heave-ho.org | all the news ...
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• Man of Steel breaks box office records on US release

  
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  The Superman reboot has made $125m on its opening weekend in the US, lining it up to be the years highest-grossing film Superman reboot Man of Steel looks on course to be one of the years highest-grossing movies after securing a gravity-defying $196.7m (£125.7m) global box office opening at the weekend . ...
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• Nabokov on Inspiration and the Six Short Stories Everyone Should Read

  
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  “A prefatory glow, not unlike some benign variety of the aura before an epileptic attack, is something the artist learns to perceive very early in life.” “Show up, show up, show up,” Isabel Allende advised , “and after a while the muse shows up, too.” “Inspiration is for amateurs,” Chuck ...
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• Morning Mug: “Coney Island Puddle Whale”

  
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  She sees a “puddle whale,” I see a “puddle snail.” Tomaytah, tomottah, potatah, potatah… let’s call the whole thing off. Photo by Lily Diamond The post Morning Mug: “Coney Island Puddle Whale” appeared first on Sheepshead Bites .
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• James Frains favourite TV: Mad Men, Damages, After Dark

  
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  The Tudors and True Blood star on his telly-watching habits Unmissable show? Mad Men , though Im not sure this season has found its feet yet. I think season five was so perfect that its almost impossible to improve on it. I want to see more of Dons relationship with Megan, because that was so powerful last ...
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• Film-makers hail G8 summit victory for European cinema

  
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  Dardennes brothers hail breakthrough as campaign to preserve the integrity of European film industry bears fruit High-profile supporters of a campaign to ensure that the film industry is not adversely affected by forthcoming free trade talks between the European Union and the US are celebrating an apparent victory . ...
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• MP Caught In Scandal

  
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  Backhander Gimpmask was – to the general public – not one of this country’s most recognisable MPs. That is, until the expense scandal broke a few years ago and it was discovered that he had been claiming for some rather exotic specialist services from one of London’s most exclusive houses of pleasure on his ...
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• Turkish police confiscate piano used to serenade Taksim Square protesters

  
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  Davide Martello, who staged 14-hour recitals during the unrest, says officials seized his piano as part of their raid on Gezi Park Turkish police have reportedly confiscated a piano that was being used to serenade Istanbuls protesters. Davide Martello claims that officials seized his grand piano as part of Saturdays ...
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• Franco-Arab Films, New Exhibitions, and Art Talks in Amman This Week

  
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  The Franco-Arab Film Festival continues this week with an intensive schedule of screenings in different venues across Amman. With up to three screenings every night, the festival will bring the latest Read More......( read more )
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• Happy Birthday, Charles Eames: The Disarming 1941 Love Letter in Which He Proposed to Ray

  
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  A modernist fairy tale of true partnership. Charles Eames (June 17, 1907 — August 21, 1978) — pioneer of the modernist aesthetic, endlessly quotable sage of design , rare interviewee , legendary visualizer of the scale of the universe — was also one half of one of the most celebrated couples in ...
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• Death in Venice English National Opera – review

  
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  Coliseum, London Brittens final opera can seem a one-man show. The ageing writer Aschenbach is on stage almost throughout, has the lions share of the singing and, in his reflections on art, is so clearly the voice of the ailing Britten that he cannot avoid being the focus of attention. Yet the glory of this ...
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• Shine On

  
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  You have to have a specific point of view to enjoy Swiss artist Felice Varini’s new installation in King’s Cross, London – such is the scale of Across the Buildings you can only see the whole silver spectacle from one special spot. The 542 metre work, commissioned by the RELAY arts programme, stretches ...
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