Top 10 Pop Culture Blogs
Pop culture has exploded along with the availability of new outlets online, and these blogs will help you keep track of the thousands of new movies, TV shows, bands and celebrities emerging each month. Perspectives range from respectful treatment of celebs and their work to sheer, unadulterated gossip.
Movie and music celebrities--at parties, on red carpets, at the beach, smooching their girlfriends/boyfriends after lunch. Generally good-news stories about the beautiful people (rather than tabloid-style death-and-divorce) plus tips on how to recreate what the stars wear on a normal person's budget.
Music and culture with a UK spin, from tributes to Lena Horne to the latest by Jack White and the Mother Hips. Offers downloadable sample tracks of emerging acts plus music videos and coverage of festivals.
Culture with a conservative spin and a sense of humor. Looks at whether the Cannes Festival prefers movies critical of America, whether TV's The Mentalist maligns conservatives, and other culture-war-lite musings--but always with an interesting, rather than an offensive, take on events.
Politicians, actors and actresses, singers, bloggers, athletes, and those famous for being famous all get the celebrity treatment. Like reading a significantly smarter National Enquirer in which everyone's a star for a few minutes.
The print pop-culture mag has a strong online presence that covers music, TV, movies, books, video and more, all with EW's traditional attention to pop-culture trends and great writing.
The New York Post's celebrity-and-gossip page is legendary for getting the skinny (and the photos) first, whether it's about Christina Aguilera or Anna Nicole Smith, Rush Limbaugh or Bill Clinton, Naomi Campbell or Jay Leno. Brings the Post more readers than anything but the Mets and Yankees.
People literally invented the celebrity-mag category and shrewdly mixes wall-to-wall coverage of the glitterati with stories of everyday people's triumphs and tragedies. Also covers fashion and style, movies and TV, and games and music.
An even nicer version of Gawker that breaks the news on who got a new summer haircut, how Twilight star Robert Pattinson's 24th birthday party went, how Gisele Bundchen is staying in shape to model underwear, and what Miley Cyrus is up to these days. Give it a try, that's why they're called guilty pleasures!
The "pop culture travel guide" mixes travel deals--experience a Korean Buddhist monk's life or stop in Tahiti for $1--with tips on spotting the clouded leopard cubs at the D.C. Zoo or hitting the five most patriotic party spots for Memorial Day. Also unveils life in first class and helps you find an ATM that dispenses grams of gold instead of bills.
This parody of Google Trends lets people submit and rate charts and graphs for the stuff you really want to see pie charts for. Let's just say that on the chart "Why I Am Majoring in Physics," the slice "to increase mankind's understanding of the universe" is dwarfed by "to figure out how to build a lightsaber." See also "Cuteness vs. Number of Legs" and "Number of Cookies You Eat Fresh Out of the Oven."
What's your favorite pop culture blog? Add it in the comments!
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