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Life and death at Balthazar

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Boom and echo

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Making babies

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Dhurata Dora’s “Zemër” via YouTube

Kosovo's soft power.

Kosovo pop

The other K-pop

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The YouTube film critic.

in conversation with prolific video essayist Thomas Flight.

Thomas Flight in front of a suburban street with bokeh.

Beyond Letterboxd

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The art of Chatroulette.

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Click, Pray, Chat

Diary of a chess tournament

"You can only spend your life trying to know it..."

takes us through the highs and lows of competition.

Cher and Nicholas Cage, Courtesy of Oxford University Press

Nick at the opera.

on [How Coppola Became Cage](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-coppola-became-cage-9780197556375?cc=us&lang=en&). 


Moonstruck

Pools, Hot Tubs, & Beaches on Twitch.

Livestreaming as submission.

on parasocial fandom and poolside streams. 

Pools, Hot Tubs, & Beaches

Prince in a 1999 interview with MTV News

Sampling the sample.

on the growing homogeneity of mainstream pop.

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Melting pot music

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The state of music criticism 

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