Since this is my last Culture Guerilla column before I graduate (or as my friend Cody Waters says, via J.R.R. Tolkien, before I “diminish and go into the west”), I wanted to elaborate on what ...

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The so-called “Fox Mole” has been unearthed. The short-lived column to the website Gawker, which depicted a Fox News Channel employee’s complaints against the work environment, was quickly revealed to have been written by Joe ...

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Reality TV shows are on the way out, or so suggests Tim Molloy in The Wrap’s March 23 article, “Are Viewers Tired of Reality TV? Aging Dancers, Bachelors and Idols Lose Their Bite.” Indeed, as ...

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In honor of Women’s History Month, I thought I’d pay tribute to five women whose work liberal arts students need to be aware of. This is not a top five list, but rather a tribute ...

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Do smart-phones make for dumb students? A March 21 US News & World Report article suggested that the use of smart-phones in the classroom “concerns some professors.” Despite citing NYU business professor Aria Finger’s support ...

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Over the weekend, I went with my girlfriend and her family to Epcot, one of the four Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in Orlando. Anchored by the iconic, golf-ball shaped ride Spaceship Earth, Epcot ...

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In my gut, I knew the Mayans were right. I sensed something odd about the buzz surrounding Jersey Shore star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi’s unexpected pregnancy. Snooki’s behavior seemed strange, too, the way she denied the ...

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Those that have followed my articles know that I am an unorthodox thinker when it comes to job creation. I happen to think that there are many as yet unrealized public services that could be ...

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“The Voice” is no longer with us. As widely reported, Whitney Houston was found dead in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Ca., just a day before the 2012 Grammy Awards. ...

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Even a Culture Guerilla needs to swoon sometimes. And swooning is what I’m prepared to do this week. Doctor’s orders. I’m recovering from an illness through a bout of antibiotics, and my doctor told me ...

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I remember watching the season finale of the first series of Mob Wives, VH1’s hit reality show featuring four Staten Island women with husbands or fathers connected to the mob, most of which are imprisoned. ...

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Asking me to make Grammy predictions is a lot like asking Ebenezer Scrooge to mix the holiday eggnog; who knows what kind of sabotage is being invited? And I’ll admit that, along with most major ...

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Earlier this month, the Tucson governing Board of Trustees voted to end its nationally acclaimed ethnic studies and Mexican-American studies program in its public schools, an action that amounts to an egregious display of book-banning ...

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The outdoor ice-skating rink has returned to Curtis-Hixon Park for the second year in a row, and I’m wondering whether I should bother going down there. Even though I enjoy ice-skating and hardly ever get ...

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