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Category Archives: Pop Culture
False Pretenses: Seven Dates That Went Horribly Awry
By Ariel Nishli, April 6, 2012 in Pop Culture
Internet dating went from taboo to convention practically overnight, effectively changing courtship rituals forever. It’s because technology has allowed us to eliminate the most painful aspect of dating: the screening process. With a carefully constructed profile, your date feels as if he or…
Gather Round, Children: American Families That Kill1
By Ryan Rosado, April 5, 2012 in Pop Culture
Courage. Liberty. Freedom. These patriotic values stand the test of time because they were ingrained in strong American families, handed down from generation to generation, in turn raising strong leaders to renew the cycle. Nurturing upstanding citizens is an American way of life. It’s reflect…
Game Changers: The Social Benefits of Video Games
By T6W Staff, April 4, 2012 in Pop Culture
The day has come, gamers! Retribution for all those late afternoons your seven-year-old self spent glued to the tube playing Super Nintendo, only to suffer the parental units counting how many brain cells you were apparently losing. Well, thy research hath been published. Playing video games has…
Superhuman Is Still Human: Six Major Superhero Screw Ups1
By Thomas Chandler, April 3, 2012 in Pop Culture
Thank Watchmen. It all started with them. Give a shout out to Christopher Nolan. He took the idea to the next level. Go rent Kick Ass then scratch your head as to why no one saw it. These comic-to-movie adaptations all share a characteristic that has come to define the modern superhero: flawed.
Think ab…
Occupy Everything Anything You Can Get: The Death of a Movement3
By Thomas Chandler, March 30, 2012 in Pop Culture
There comes a time in every society when socioeconomic and political differences rear their suppressed heads. Polite friends and acquaintances are divided into allies and enemies. For four magical, parade-filled months in 2011, you were either with the occupiers or against them. And if you were…
The Six Stages of Our Relationship with Speed-Dating
By Aydrea Walden, March 29, 2012 in Pop Culture
In the old country, when marriage was essentially a transfer of property from one man to another, courtship was more of a dressing than the primary focus. Now that society has decided true love is more important than an equitable financial exchange, the stakes for finding the right person have becom…
Gamers Get Girls: Online Gaming vs. Online Dating5
By T6W Staff, in Infographics , Pop Culture
As a follow up to this morning’s story on how online dating killed the speed-dating star, we found that modern dating websites, even uber-specific fare such as “Lovebitten” (that’s dating for vampires, so they’re probably not going on too many hikes) can’t keep up in our high-tech world.
In an unant…
The Evolution of Howard Stern1
By Jeremy Fancher, March 28, 2012 in Pop Culture
Howard Stern, fifty-eight, seated in a newly-renovated studio in Rockefeller Center, begins The Howard Stern Show, which airs from 6:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M. every Monday – Wednesday, with The Rolling Stone’s 1968 return-to-blues sensation “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,”…
Hunger Games: Why Our Appetite for Jennifer Lawrence Keeps Growing
By Ariel Nishli, March 23, 2012 in Pop Culture
Every once in a while, through a magical combination of raw talent, business savvy, fantastic marketing, sheer luck, and a pinch of zeitgeist, we experience the extraordinary phenomenon of an actor breaking into a movie star. It’s a layered expression, “to break,” on one hand denoting an evolutio…
Can’t Drink, Can’t Smoke, But They Have Our Vote: America’s Youngest Elected Officials1
By Aydrea Walden, April 9, 2012 in Pop Culture
In KoldCast TV’s fresh satirical comedy Mr. Mayor, 18-year-old Purlie Judson is elected mayor of his small Georgia town. He soon realizes his local government co-workers are far more immature than he is, even though they were in office while he was still wrapping his head around the idea of leaving h…