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Scott Timberg is a former staff writer for Salon, focusing on culture. A longtime arts reporter in Los Angeles who has contributed to the New York Times, he runs the blog Culture Crash. He’s the author of the book, “Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class.” Follow him on Twitter at @TheMisreadCity.

"Deadwood" (HBO)

Ranking the best TV shows: “I certainly could have been talked into ‘The Wire’ or ‘The Sopranos'”

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The Zombies (The End Records/Andrew Eccles)

The Zombies walk again: “You can get better, as singers and players — but you have to work at it”

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Paul Simon (AP/G. Paul Burnett/Salon)

Going back to “Graceland”: Revisiting Paul Simon’s fraught and tuneful South African album

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John Krasinski and Margo Martindale in "The Hollars" (Sony Pictures Classics)

John Krasinski’s family affair: Why making “The Hollars” felt “like we were shooting a home video”

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Nick Denton (Wikimedia/Gawker/Salon)

Gawker says goodbye: Farewells combine nostalgia with irony

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Adnan Syed, Brendan Dassey (Reuters/Carlos Barria/AP/Morry Gash)

The trial-by-Netflix age: “Making a Murderer,” “Serial” and the mixed blessings of media justice

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Nick Denton (Wikimedia/Gawker/Salon)

“We could be really experimental”: Why Gawker went down and why we’ll hate ourselves for missing it

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Dixie Chicks (AP/Urs Flueeler)

How 9/11 chilled musicians: “They were trying to push back against the new status quo. … Some of them got smacked back”

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Jimmy Page (Reuters/Stefan Wermuth)

Twilight of the gods: Jimmy Page’s testimony shows just how misguided music plagiarism cases can get

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(AP/Eckehard Schulz)

How video games suck you in: “Our sense of time becomes yoked, not to the ticking of the clock, but to the pattern of our interactions”

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Barack Obama; Clockwise, from top left: Courtney Barnett, The Beach Boys, Prince, Pharrell Williams. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Barry Brecheisen/David J. Phillip/Reuters/Dylan Martinez)

Decoding Obama’s playlist: Inside his summer jams, a hint of what we’ll miss most about him

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Cate Blanchett; Mindy Kaling; Helena Bonham Carter (Reuters/Adrees Latif/Danny Moloshok/Stefanie Loos)

“Ocean’s Eight” tests the limits of the gender-flip reboot formula

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(HBO)

John Oliver’s newspaper rant hits a nerve: “We’ve watched it being not-so-slowly destroyed by forces beyond our control”

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Matthew McConaughey in "The Sea of Trees" (A24)

The end of the McConaissance: “Sea of Trees” star looks like a poor fit for the role

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David Cross (AP/Victoria Will)

David Cross brings “social justice warriors” and the right together: “Through their hatred of me, [they] bond”

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The Beatles (AP)

Why “Revolver” still matters: The 50th anniversary of a Beatles masterpiece

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(Lucasfilm)

“Star Wars” overdose: New live-action TV series could be too much of a good thing

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“This is fine” cartoonist on why it’s not fine, after all: It’s “a response to how weird and bad 2016 has made me feel”

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Beavis and Butthead; Kurt Cobain (MTV)

MTV Classic and the humbling of Generation X: To claim “Unplugged,” we must face “Beavis and Butthead”

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(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/xavierarnau'>Xavier Arnau</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/AP/Reuters/Salon)

The Revenge of Monoculture: The Internet gave us more choices, but the mainstream won anyway

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Chris Collingwood

Life after Fountains of Wayne: “I don’t find myself listening to power-pop music at all”

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Bernie Sanders; JoJo Fletcher of "The Bachelorette" (AP/Mark J. Terrill/ABC)

Bernie vs. “The Bachelorette”: When reality and “reality” collide on TV

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Thom Yorke; Moby (AP/John Davisson/AP/Rich Fury)

Gen X needs a nap: Thom Yorke’s sleepy-time playlist speaks to a greater need for rest

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"Batman: The Killing Joke" (DC Comics)

Holy backlash, Batgirl: “The Killing Joke” opens in the shadow of a Comic-Con panel gone wrong

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