Pop Culture Mandate

Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Oct 18

Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Oct 18

Five things you must not miss this week, including books from an Onion staff writer and Bob Dylan’s most famous biographer.
Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Oct 11

Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Oct 11

Five things you must not miss this week, including new albums for Sufjan and Belle & Sebastian, and the end to another season of Mad Men.
Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Oct 4

Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Oct 4

Five things you must not miss this week, including new albums from Clinic and Marnie Stern and Zach Galifianakis as a wise and friendly nutcase.
Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Sept 28

Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Sept 28

Five things you may not miss this week, including The Social Network, David Cross' new show, and a book of animal fables from David Sedaris.
Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Sept 20

Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Sept 20

Five things you must not miss this week, including the much anticipated Wall Street sequel and Jon Stewart's book, Earth, chronicling the entire history of the human race.
Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Sept 13

Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Sept 13

Five things you must not miss this week, including albums from Weezer and Les Savy Fav, and Ben Affleck robbing banks.
Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate

Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate

Five things you may not miss this week, including Interpol, Tao Lin, and a documentary about Joaquin Phoenix’s beard.
Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: August 30th

Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: August 30th

Five things you must not miss this week, including Anton Corbijn's The American and Jonathan Franzen's long-awaited new novel, Freedom.
Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Neil Hamburger, !!!, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan

Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Neil Hamburger, !!!, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan

Five things you must not miss this week, including comic Neil Hamburger and new albums from !!! and Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan.
Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Superchunk, Kids in the Hall, and Brian Wilson

Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Superchunk, Kids in the Hall, and Brian Wilson

Five things you must not miss this week, including Superchunk, Kids in the Hall, and a surprise new release from Brian Wilson.
Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Animal Collective, Scott Pilgrim, and Roseanne Cash's new memoir

Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Animal Collective, Scott Pilgrim, and Roseanne Cash's new memoir

Five things you must not miss this week, including Animal Collective, Scott Pilgrim, and a new memoir from Roseanne Cash.
Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Arcade Fire, The Other Guys, Squeeze

Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Arcade Fire, The Other Guys, Squeeze

Five things you must not miss this week, including Arcade Fire, The Other Guys, and a new album from stars of the ‘80s, Squeeze.
Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Best Coast and more

Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate: Best Coast and more

Five things you must not miss this week, including Best Coast, Roberto Bolaño, and a heavily bearded John C. Reilly in The Extra Man.
Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate

Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate

Five things you must not miss this week, including a new album from The Books, Todd Solondz’s new film, and, of course, Mad Men.