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Angry Birds: Tarzan of the Apps

Tom Alderman | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Leibniz, The Grid, Macbeth, Jon Hamm, Tarzan, Rovio Entertainment, Syracuse University, Newton, The Telegraph, David and Goliath, Groucho, Alfred Hitchcock, Mad Men, Pong, Angry Birds, Robert Thompson, Cultural Studies, David Cameron, Technology News
Tom Alderman

Created by Finland's small mobile game developer, Rovio Entertainment, Angry Birds is a digital phenomenon. It has been downloaded an estimated 50 million times by people of all ages.

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Vampires: Why Here, Why Now?

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Count Chocula, The Vampire Diaries, Dark Shadows, Bela Lugosi, Syracuse University, Random House, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Charlaine Harris, Hammer Films, Colin Farrell, Sesame Steet, Nicolas Cage. Con Air, Interview With a Vampire, Wheaties Breakfast of Champions, Lord Byron, Stephanie Meyer, Anne Rice, Lady Caroline Lamb, The CW Network, Tracey Bateman, Bram Stoker, The Vampyre, Twilight, Charlie Huston, General Mills, Drew Silver, The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vampires, WaterBrook Publishers, Rosemary Laurey, Robert Thompson, True Blood, Tanya Huff, John Polidori, Bill Compton, Nosferatu, Sookie, Entertainment News
Tom Alderman

If fiction often reflects a nation's culture, why, oh-why-oh, do we have so many vampires, in so many places, sucking up so many entertainment dollars with such blazing success today?

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Economics of Spoiled Teen Dramas Fundamentally Sound

Jason Notte | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 90210, Dawson's Creek, Economic Crisis, Allan Ornstein, Darren Starr, My So Called Life, Robert Thompson, Felicity, The HIlls, Party of Five, Beverly Hills 90210, Gossip Girl, Mtv, Cw, Economy, Privileged, Entertainment News
Jason Notte

If Dawson lived on the CW today instead of the WB of the late 90s, he and his friends would be priced right off of the creek.

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