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Academia and pop culture have made for strange bedfellows for decades now. The University of Washington offers a comparative history class on the work of rapper Tupac Shakur, Syracuse University made... Read more >>

She stood there looking at the pulsating mass writhing on the floor. If she had been capable, she was sure she’d have felt bile rise into her throat. Something about the glow of the room and the... Read more >>

Coming back to the present, she realized that the time had been kind to them both, and neither wanted for anything material. She looked at him longingly as she ran the cloth along her arms, and draped... Read more >>

The moonlight penetrated the stained glass, like miniscule beams of the spectrum brought to life by the shards that had been left to rest in the framework destroyed through thousands of years of... Read more >>

The word on the street is that Buffy Summers, vampire slayer extraordinaire, is making a return to the big screen. Fans of the TV series and rabid Joss Whedon enthusiasts rejoiced—until they... Read more >>

A voluptuous greyish figure’s silhouette graced the balcony at Bienville Terrace, as waving black hair and piercing violet eyes glowed on a moonless autumn hour after midnight.... Read more >>

I should be upfront and mention that I have never participated in any Twilight-related cultural experiences. I haven’t read the books or seen the movies, and the closest I’ve come to that... Read more >>

As I was wearily driving home from work, I had the all-news radio station on, giving up to-the-minute reports every ten minutes on everything from banking to the weather. In his very solemn and... Read more >>

If you’re anything like us, your DVRs have been set for ages, anxiously awaiting the finale of True Blood, while simultaneously dreading the demise of such a deliciously guilty pleasure of a... Read more >>