Read more pop culture stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3579/pop-culture.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:37:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/67189/fag-hag-no-longer-hip-label.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThanks to Will & Grace , the young gay men of a decade ago were turned “into something unexpected: a must-have item,” writes Thomas Rogers for Salon. Though he was “jockish, pop-culturally illiterate, and dressed in mom jeans,” Rogers “remained a strangely alluring target for a large number of straight women”—...http://www.newser.com/story/67189/fag-hag-no-longer-hip-label.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 18 Aug 2009 16:25:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65981/in-la-youre-never-too-old-to-rap.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA new crop of rappers is emerging in Los Angeles, and they have one thing in common: They’re senior citizens. Hip-hop artist Keith Cross started his unorthodox rap class in 2004 to show seniors “there is positive rap out there; we just have to look for it,” he tells the...http://www.newser.com/story/65981/in-la-youre-never-too-old-to-rap.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 03 Aug 2009 12:33:35 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54462/rihanna-arms-herself-with-gun-tattoo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRihanna, often seen with a gun pendant around her neck, has decided to add a gun to the assemblage of tattoos on her body. This one graces her ribcage, safely out of view for her modeling spots. “I really wanted to put it on her arms,” her artist tells Us...http://www.newser.com/story/54462/rihanna-arms-herself-with-gun-tattoo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 26 Mar 2009 12:12:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/48967/zippo-closes-in-on-500m-lighters.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAt some point this year, the Zippo factory in Bradford, Pa., will churn out its 500 millionth lighter, NPR reports. The windproof gadget has become a cultural staple since 1932, from the wartime foxholes of Germany and Vietnam to the glitter of the Silver Screen, but NPR notes that the...http://www.newser.com/story/48967/zippo-closes-in-on-500m-lighters.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 29 Jan 2009 18:37:52 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/45068/how-cereal-shaped-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWe might be eating hockey pucks for breakfast if a 19th-century kitchen accident hadn’t turned John Kellogg’s “barely edible” biscuits into today’s far-tastier flakes, Ian Lender writes in Mental Floss . “The cereal flake is the perfect consumer product,” he says, looking at how cereal shaped American diets, culture, and advertising....http://www.newser.com/story/45068/how-cereal-shaped-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 14 Dec 2008 10:01:46 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43742/paula-will-face-dancing-judges.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPrepare to savor the sweet redemption of a judge—albeit a nice one—being judged: Paula Abdul is “very excited” to be a contestant on next season's Dancing with the Stars , Radar reports. The singer-turned- American Idol judge made no secret of the fact that she was “shopping around” for...http://www.newser.com/story/43742/paula-will-face-dancing-judges.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 26 Nov 2008 14:55:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43364/will-obama-change-pop-culture.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCan "No-Drama" Obama cast a spell over Hollywood? After years of bleak television dramas, a Dark Knight superhero, and a James Bond who rarely smiles, some in Hollywood say Obama will inspire an era of optimism. ''The idea of change and hope has permeated the country," says Marvel Studios President...http://www.newser.com/story/43364/will-obama-change-pop-culture.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 21 Nov 2008 19:52:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/41039/turning-tricks-or-trick-or-treat.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNo, your eyesight isn't hexed: Young girls really are dressing like French maids and prostitutes every Halloween. And their skirts will only get higher, because pop culture has drowned out any last echo of parental advice, author Diane E. Levin tells the Los Angeles Times . The co-author of So Sexy...http://www.newser.com/story/41039/turning-tricks-or-trick-or-treat.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 27 Oct 2008 18:25:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/41019/on-film-a-black-president-is-nothing-new.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAmerica may be on the verge of electing its first black president, but pop culture is way ahead of reality. James Earl Jones portrayed the first in The Man (1972), and several have followed. As an entertainment-obsessed nation, asks Slate, might these fictional forebears affect our perception of the real...http://www.newser.com/story/41019/on-film-a-black-president-is-nothing-new.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 27 Oct 2008 17:57:46 CDT