The World's Top Public Intellectuals

MayorBob.

Posted to Etcetera on Sat May 03, 2008 at 11:18:54 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Foreign Policy wants your help selecting the top public intellectuals of our time. They begin with a list of who they view as the top 100 and ask readers to vote for their top five votes. The top 20 vote getters will be listed in the July/August issue of the magazine.

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TnT Top Ten: War Movies

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Posted to Media on Mon Feb 18, 2008 at 08:10:43 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

War has always been a compelling topic for film; indeed, the "father film" of the American motion picture industry (Birth of a Nation, filmed in 1915) was set in the American Civil War, and the early Russian classic Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) was set during a failed 1905 uprising against the Russian Czar.

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Grab Your Lighters And Dissect This - The Top 50 Live Albums Of All Time

1fastdog.

Posted to Music on Fri Nov 10, 2006 at 02:45:51 AM EST (promoted by kiwiana). RSS.

The art of the live album seems antiquated these days. Back in the 70s, artists like Kiss, Cheap Trick and Peter Frampton found their greatest success with live albums, enjoying multi-platinum sales and even spinning off radio hits, while other artists like The Allman Brothers and the MC5 enjoyed their greatest artistic and critical successes with live albums as well. However, somewhere along the line, in between popular rock moving away from the ideals of virtuosity and pure energy (and popular music moving farther away from rock in the first place), live shows becoming excessively easy to bootleg, and supposedly legendary live acts like Phish and Widespread Panic soiling many on the form, the live album essentially lost its power, becoming increasingly less of an artistic or commercial prospect and increasingly more like a mere collector's item.

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