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Why We Need the Peaceful Mindlessness of HGTV Now More Than Ever

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

And An Argument for Basic Cable I Never Thought I Would Make If you haven’t watched HGTV in a while, don’t worry, nothing has changed.

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The Intermediate Guide to Early Soul and R&B

Posted on April 14, 2020August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

There is no better music in the world than American Soul music. Here is my irrefutable, logical argument as to why that is. Emotion that’s

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Hit Songs With Choruses Good Enough They Almost Make Up For a Terrible Everything Else

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Do you like songs where two separate groups of men sing over each other in disparate tones nearly devoid of melody?  Wanna feel my body

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Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, Pop Culture Diary

With Honey Closing, Will a Willingness to Hear New Voices Go With It?

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

A Love Letter To the Most Important Venue Of My Life A disproportionate amount of my 20s were spent in dark, dank bars, drinking drinks

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Tagged closing, ginger hop, hip hop, honey, honey minneapolis, local music, twin cities
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Are Weddings The Shark Sitcoms Can’t Help But Jump?

Posted on March 24, 2020August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Sitcoms do unbelievable things in the name of comedy all the time.  A man owns a monkey in New York City, a group of friends

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Songs That Sample a Blasphemously Popular Song and Pull It Off

Posted on March 10, 2020March 10, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

The late 90s was a great time to be a teenager. The X-games was reaching critical popularity, Hip Hop had risen from outsider art to

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Tagged isley brothers, janet jackson, kendrick lamar, lawrence fishburne, sean kingston, shaggy, steve miller, tupac
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A Fashion Week “Prank” and Why It Backfired

Posted on March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Zac and Jay Set Out to Prove Fashion is Stupid, Instead, They Prove That It’s Fun Zac and Jay are funny, but maybe more importantly,

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Tagged cultural commentary, fashion, london fashion week, mr deeds, paris fashion week, pop culture, the high low, think piece, zac and jay
Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles

The Influence of Justin Vernon

Posted on February 25, 2020February 25, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

How an Eau Claire Native Became the First Man in Modern American History to Popularize the Falsetto Bon Iver released For Emma, Forever Ago in

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Tagged asgeir, bon iver, damien jurado, falsetto, jagjaguwar, james vincent mcmorrow, justin vernon, moby, novo amor, rhye, ry x, s carey
Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles

I Wish You Well! 6 Songs That Appreciate the Opposite Gender

Posted on February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Most of pop music is about love. Most love songs are not happy. For every, female empowering “No, I don’t want no scrub” there are

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Tagged Bill withers, by your side, common, everyday boy, i wish you well, joan armatrading, just friends, musiq soulchild, open arms, sade, the light, tracy chapman
Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles

What the NBA Slam Dunk Contest Could Learn from the WWE

Posted on February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

This Year the NBA Announced Dwight Howard Would Be Participating in the Slam Dunk Contest, Why That’s A Step In The Right Direction And Why

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Tagged cultural commentary, dr. j, giannis, goldberg, jordan, kobe, lebron, pop culture, royal rumble, slam dunk contest, social commentary, the high low, think piece, undertaker
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