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Cultured Articles
Persian Visions: Iran as You’ve Never Seen It
Andy Kroll · Nov 01, 2007
UMMA’s newest Off/Site exhibit offers unique insights into Iranian culture
Meet Entourage’s Dorky Twin Brother
Matt Rosenberg · Oct 02, 2007
or “Why you should be watching Flight of the Conchords”
All Work and No Kubrick Makes Ann Arbor a Dull Town
John Church · Sep 25, 2007
Students, shelve your books. Ann Arborites, turn off the drudgery of that mundane Monday night lineup — it’s time to see some of the classics…
A Cultural Revolution
Michael Butterscotch · Mar 16, 2007
With the uninformed American movie audience (and I, for a long time, one of them), it’s not so much a filmic xenophobia as a shyness: Foreign films are intimidating. After all, they’re in a different language. But art from an unfamiliar maker often ends up teaching you much more than its American counterpart.
The Light Stuff
Chann Weill · Mar 09, 2007
To be sure, smoking is a filthy habit. But despite the surgeon general’s best efforts, movie stars and journalists have always managed to make it look cool. Now, with regulation increasing and classic brands like Lucky Strike fading, what are jaded hipsters — not to mention presidential candidates — to do?
Palio and Plato: Your V-Day Guide to Faking the Classics
Michael Butterscotch · Feb 12, 2007
Valentine’s Day. Maybe you believe the whole buy-the-chocolates, buy-the-flowers idea of the holiday is the correct one. You succumbed to American commercialism or a pushy,…
The Michigan Theater (of the Absurd)
Chann Weill · Feb 05, 2007
A week of homoerotic cops, Almódovar and broken Mandarin prove that you can find culture in this increasingly corporately encultured town. It’s difficult to be…
Buy Your Professor’s Book. No, Seriously.
Michael Butterscotch · Jan 29, 2007
So, the last piece you read by a University of Michigan writer was “Death of a Salesman” in 12th grade AP English, right after you…
