Yahoo News King Kong and Red Carpet Fashion: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing
The Scarred Skyline Keith Phipps | The Dissolve "When Kong gazes at Manhattan in the Dino De Laurentiis-produced 1976 remake of King Kong, he latches onto the image of the World Trade Center’s twin towers, illuminated on the evening of his New York rampage by a full moon."
It's Not Sexist to Ask About Clothes on the Red Carpet Maureen O'Connor | The Cut "The Oscars red carpet is the Oscars of gowns. It’s an hour-long theatrical production about style, and it just happens to share its cast with the nominees and presenters of the Academy Awards."
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Waitin' on Sage: On the Road and in the Dirt with Sage Kimzey, the 20-year-old King of Rodeo Abe Streep | California Sunday Magazine "It’s buuuuuuuuuuuullllll riding time!"
Moneyball II: Charles Barkley, the Sports Media, and the Second Statistical War Bryan Curtis | Grantland "This clash doesn’t pit a blogger versus a newspaperman in a debate over the value of PER. It pits media versus athletes in a battle over who gets to tell the story of basketball."
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Inside Sour Patch Kids' Brooklyn Crash Pad for Indie Bands Carrie Battan | Vulture "As spiritually dissonant as it may still seem for a band beloved for its rowdy, drunken clamor to be, almost literally, in bed with one of America’s leading gummy-candy brands, agreeing to stay here isn’t exactly making a deal with the devil."
GamerGate’s Archvillain Is Really A Trolling Sketch Comedian Joseph Bernstein | Buzzfeed "'I started it as a joke, but it’s become far too real and I wish I could take it all back.'"
Mean Girl Kelefa Sanneh | The New Yorker "Why the world's best female fighter loves to be hated."
The Rise of the Reactress Gabrielle Moss | Slate "This problem isn’t Sienna-specific."
This article was originally published at http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/02/the-week-in-pop-culture-writing/386417/?UTM_SOURCE=yahoo
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