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News

PoC News in America

A little tardy to the party, but we’re back and ready to celebrate with Oscar Isaac and Taraji P. Henson on their Golden Globe wins!

News

PoC in America – Pop Culture Edition

Post author By Karishma
Post date Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
1 Comment on PoC in America – Pop Culture Edition

A lot of news happened while we were out. Here’s what we missed in music, movies, and the rest of celebrity pop culture.

News

PoC News in America

This week, our hearts are with the victims of terrorism in Paris, Beirut, and elsewhere around the world.

News

PoC News in America

We hope those of you celebrating Halloween enjoyed a weekend filled with candy and joy and not with casually or blatantly racist costumes.

Pop Culture

Ten Songs Keeping Me Sane This Week: Stand-Up Comedy Edition

Post author By Alyson
Post date Thursday, July 9th, 2015
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Sometimes we all just need a good laugh. I fall asleep to comedy each night because somehow those funny people soothe me off into dreamland. I tend to also consume it a lot in general, so I bring you my ten favorite current comedians.

Tags amy schumer, aziz ansari, Chelsea Peretti, comedy, jen kirkman, john mulaney, kumail nanjiani, maria bamford, paul f tompkins, retta, rye silverman, stand up, stand up comedy, ten songs, ten songs keeping me sane this week

Humor

Self-Care Clips, or How YouTube Saved My Life

Post author By Alyson
Post date Thursday, March 19th, 2015
3 Comments on Self-Care Clips, or How YouTube Saved My Life

Internet videos are amazing. We all know this. I am just glad we have massive amounts of funny music videos, crazy cat videos, and weird whatever videos. The expansiveness of the Internet has allowed me to laugh and use that laughter as self-care.

Tags aziz ansari, jimmy fallon, self care, sleater-kinney, youtube, youtube videos

Movies

39 Years Later: Recasting “Rocky Horror” For A New Generation

Post author By Alyson
Post date Thursday, October 30th, 2014
4 Comments on 39 Years Later: Recasting “Rocky Horror” For A New Generation

My wife and I pulled out one of our annual Halloween rituals recently: we watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show. We both love the movie, and by love, I mean we will do the call backs and throw popcorn even if it’s just the two of us. We started talking about who we would cast if […]

Tags aziz ansari, Barry Bostwick, brie larson, carrie brownstein, Chris Hemsworth, donald glover, dreamcast, Idris Elba, meatloaf, Rashida Jones, rocky horror, scarlett johansson, sleater-kinney, The Avengers, the rocky horror picture show

This Week in Misogyny

This Week in Misogyny Is Not Down with Fracking for the Cure

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Thursday, October 9th, 2014
4 Comments on This Week in Misogyny Is Not Down with Fracking for the Cure

“Awareness” has gone too far. TOO FAR. And there’s plenty of truly tragic news this week to go along with the shit that’s merely infuriating. But if you can make it through to the end, Jessica Williams will make it all better. (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)

Tags abortion, ACLU, affirmative consent, Alabama, allies, alt-lit, annie lennox, aziz ansari, beyonce, buttleopener, campus rape, catholicism, child molestation, child soldiers, college humor, colorado, disability, domestic abuse, Ello, Emma Sulkowicz, Equal Pay Day, george will, ghostbusters, into the crevasse, Jameis Winston, jennifer lawrence, jessica valenti, Jessica Williams, Karl Lagerfeld, kid's clothing, Marie Claire, Mayang Prasetyo, military sexual assault, misogyny, MRAs, murder, new york, Nicholas Sparks, nobel prize in physics, obama, parental consent, personhood, pinktober, pregnancy, redefining marriage, Reince Priebus, sexting, sexual harassment, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Collins, Stephen Tully Dierks, street harassment, susan G. Komen, Syria, Texas, transgender rights, TRAP laws, treon harris, victim-blaming, wage gap, womansplainer, women in tech

Music

Ten Songs Keeping Me Sane This Week: Vacation Edition

Post author By Alyson
Post date Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
1 Comment on Ten Songs Keeping Me Sane This Week: Vacation Edition

Vacation always takes a lot out of me. The travelling part is always the hardest, especially if you are stuck in a flying tube at 40,000 feet. I hate flying more than most people; luckily, the magic little box full of music kept my mind off of the flight.

Tags Against Me!, aziz ansari, black sabbath, chuck klosterman, grouplove, iron and wine, Kanye West, laura jane grace, los bunkers, music, natalie merchant, talking heads, the roots, wye oak

Just for Fun

What I Watched Last Night Was Dangerously Delicious

Post author By [E] Sally Lawton
Post date Friday, April 13th, 2012
5 Comments on What I Watched Last Night Was Dangerously Delicious

Do you ever spend some money and are like, “That was so worth it. I’m not disappointed in my purchase at all”? That’s how I felt last night after spending $5 to download Aziz Ansari’s latest special, “Dangerously Delicious.”

Tags aziz ansari, funny, What I Watched Last Night

Pop Culture

A Love Letter to “Parks and Recreation”

Post author By Crystal Coleman
Post date Friday, August 19th, 2011
6 Comments on A Love Letter to “Parks and Recreation”

In the Spring of 2009, Parks and Recreation debuted on NBC. Maybe you heard about it because you liked Amy Poehler from SNL. Maybe you heard that it was kind of like The Office, but without Steve Carrell. Maybe you watched an episode or two but didn’t bother to add it to your TiVo Season Passes. If you haven’t already spring for a HuluPlus subscription just to watch all the episodes in the past month, this love letter should explain why I did and you should.

Tags amy poehler, aziz ansari, good tv, Leslie Knope, Parks and Rec, parks and recreation, ron swanson, sitcoms, TV, tv feminists, women on TV

Pop Culture

White-Out : A Review of The Oscars

Post author By TheLadyMiss
Post date Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
2 Comments on White-Out : A Review of The Oscars

“The one thing I noticed about these films that are nominated is that there are no African-Americans in them. Social Network? There could have been a black guy checking his Facebook. Not even in a montage! James Franco cuts his arm off in 127 hours and his arm doesn’t even turn black! Black Swan? There’s […]

Tags aziz ansari, black swan, charles ferguson, hugh hefner, james franco, kids are all right, mainstream entertainment, marlon brando, oscar statue, political rhetoric