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Poet Pride: A Charm City Classic on Film

Timothy Cooper | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1960s, Civil Rights Movment, New York, Baltimore, 1990's, Muggsy Bogues, Hbo, Drugs, 1980's, War on Drugs, Basketball, Film, The Wire, Carmelo Anthony, Len Bias, USA Today, Reggie Lewis, Chicago, Documentary, Boston Celtics, Rudy Gay, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nba, 1970s, Entertainment News
Timothy Cooper

A new basketball documentary, Poet Pride, takes a look at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. This famed East Baltimore institution has produced some of the greatest basketball players in the country.

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Daryl Hall & John Oates Interview, Part 2: Daryl Hall and the "War" with his Generation

Jon Chattman | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Duo, Lorne Michaels, 500 Days of Summer, 1980s, Maneater, You Make My Dreams Come True, BB King, Snl, Hall & Oates, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Musicians, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, John Oates, Daryl Hall, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

Arguably the biggest music duo of all time have said they're able to coexist and churn out hits and perform because they don't drive each other crazy and let each other do their own thing.

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Daryl Hall & John Oates Interview Part 1: Honey Bunches of John Oates

Jon Chattman | Posted 11.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Zooey Deschanel, Collection, Mustache, Foreward, Hall & Oates, Music, Hall and Oates, Duo, Regina Spektor, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Box Set, 500 Days of Summer, 1980s, Feist, John Oates, Pop, Sweet Stache, Maneater, Daryl Hall, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

"Of all the groups or duos out there, [SNL] pick us to use because we've achieved this iconic status of sorts," Oates said. "They're not going to pick someone the world doesn't recognize."

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New York, You've Changed: Ghostbusters, Part One

Nick Carr | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Central Park, Ghostbusters, Rudy Giuliani, 1980s, Columbia University, Bill Murray, Tribeca, Fifth Avenue, Spiderman, Scouting Ny, Movies, New York News
Nick Carr

Reliving the magic of Ghostbusters through pictures of New York, then and now.

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Putting the 'Change' Back in "Change You Can Believe In": The Two Faces of Barack Obama

Marshall Auerback | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Incrementalism, Dnc, Wall Street Bailout, Bankruptcy, Politico, Divorce, Public Option, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Warren Christopher, JP Morgan, 1930s, Democrats, Jamie Dimon, Harry Truman, Government, Change, White House, 1980s, Barack Obama, Bailout, Washington, Health Care Reform, Opinion Polls, Gop, Richard Nixon, Paul Krugman, Health Care, Republicans, Politics News
Marshall Auerback

A broad number of polls indicate that progressive opinion, particularly in the area of health care, is much more profoundly aligned with popular opinion than the damp squib of a proposal currently being championed by the president.

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John Hughes: "The Audacity of Empathy"

Kevin Smokler | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Youth, 1980s, 80s, Generation X, Film, Movies, John Hughes, Cinema, Death, Parents, Entertainment News
Kevin Smokler

Hughes's are not just movies about the mid-1980s, but movies set in the mid-1980s that now live as archetype and fable.

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John Hughes Films Weren't Racially Diverse, but That's OK

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 09.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ferris Bueller, 1980s, Pretty in Pink, Matthew Broderick, Molly Ringwald, John Hughes, John Hughes Death, Entertainment News
Kristi York Wooten

Fighting at the lockers, crying in the restroom, avoiding bullies, defending your outfit to a principal who thinks all students should be cookie-cutter preppies -- what kid, black or white, couldn't relate to that?

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What We Learned from John Hughes

Beth Armogida | Posted 09.07.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Directors, Screenwriters, Sixteen Candles, 1980's, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, Movies, John Hughes, Comedy News
Beth Armogida

Can you imagine growing up without John Hughes' movies? His stories showed us how to laugh at our insecurities and, even more importantly, to laugh at other people's insecurities.

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The Shelf Talker: Disco, Beer and Rubix Cubes

Kevin Smokler | Posted 08.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Newyork, Man Booker Prize, 1980s, Books, Wildstyle, 1970s, Beer, Booker Prize, Media News
Kevin Smokler

The nominees for the Man Booker Prize, the UK's equivalent of the Best Book Oscar, have been announced. Though we love lists/awards/hall-of-fames of all variety we want hide under the sofa when they land in our laps.

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Michael Jackson's Story: Can't Beat It

Jon Chattman | Posted 08.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, 1980s, Beat It, Joe Jackson, Bubbles, Oprah, Jackson Five, Lisa Marie, The Gloved One, Michael Jackson Death, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

As legendary and iconic as he was and will forever be, he always got himself in some kind of trouble. Sadly, the biggest legacy he will have is the true potential he wasted when he was alive.

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Jackson's Death Means We're All Older Now and Need to Sober Up

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Prescription Drug Addiction, John F. Kennedy, Michael Jackson, The Moonwalk, I'll Be There, Charlies Angel's, Prescription Drugs, 1980's, Farrah Fawcett, Heroine, Charlies Angels, 1970's, Janis Joplin, ABC, "Thriller, Ed McMahon, Ratings, Fred Astaire, The Burning Bed, Keeping Up With the Joneses, Camero, The Partridge Family, Baby Boomers, Wacko Jacko, Thriller, Tabloids, American Bandstand, Martin Luther King Jr., Fat Albert, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, Rock With You, Robert F. Kennedy, Celebrity Worship, Soul Train, Cnn, Sideshow, Jimi Hendrix, Cocaine, Living News
Francesca Biller-Safran

The passing of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett has hit us near-baby boomers and full-on baby boomers with a rock and roll punch to the gut we weren't ready for.

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Michael Jackson and the Dawn of Global India

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 07.28.2009 | World

Read More: Michael Jackson, Television, Entertainment, 1980s, Globalization, South Asia, India, Media, Asia, Music, Mtv, World News
Vamsee Juluri

Rock may have smashed the iron curtain, but it was just the moonwalk that did it for India.

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The Love You Save: Michael and the Rear-Guard Boomers

Will Bunch | Posted 07.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Beatles, Baby Boomers, Ronald Reagan, 1980s, Led Zeppelin, Woodstock, Rolling Stones, Barack Obama, 1970s, Micahel Jackson Music, Michael Jackson Dead, Entertainment News
Will Bunch

The Jackson 5 and their strings of hits like "The Love You Save" was the first pop music that truly belonged to us -- the rear-guard Baby Boomers.

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Pet Shop Boys Write Social History 1983-2009

Ariston Anderson | Posted 07.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pet-Shop-Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant, Margaret Thatcher, Mariah Carey, Chris Lowe, Emi, Barack Obama, 1980s, Md-80s, Entertainment News
Ariston Anderson

We spoke to the band about how their work has documented social history, how to make a living with music videos no longer appearing on MTV, and musicians' latest professional challenges.

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What About Welfare?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Welfare, Women, Unemployment, Poverty, Economic Stimulus Package, President Obama, Taxes, Women's Rights, Earned Income Tax Credit, Food Stamps, Women's Issues, Low-Income, Welfare Reform, Women Childcare, Children, Money, Barack Obama Taxes, Jobs, Low-Income Children, 1990s, Income Tax, 1980s, Kids, Childcare, Tax Cuts, Poor, Head Start, Working Families, Families, Politics News
Philip N. Cohen

The present plan includes tax cuts that will benefit even those too poor to pay taxes, and includes $4 billion for child care services for low-income families.

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Cabbage Patch Fever: 25 Years After

Colleen Kane | Posted 01.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Christmas Memories, Trendy Toys, Cabbage Patch Kids, 1980's Cabbage Patch Kids, Kids at Christmas, Christmas Toy Trends, Cabbage Patch Dolls, 1980's, Holiday Season, Holiday Gifts, 1980's Trends, Living News
Colleen Kane

At recess, I would ask to hold a friend's Cabbage Patch doll, with its squishy, pudgy legs and subtle baby-powder scent and some hideous name that sounded both Biblical and medical.

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