08: The Badder The Better

Introduction: The Badder The Better

Ron Alcalay, Steven Rubio
This issue hopefully will present a side of Bad Subjects that is not always as clear as we would like.

Bad Tourists at the Mall

Annalee Newitz, Steven Rubio, Ann Marie Caffrey
Earlier this summer, a group of Bad Subjects visited Sun Valley Mall in Concord, California, on the first of what we hope will be occasional 'field trips.'

Recombinant Realism/Caliutopian Re-Dreaming: Beverly Hills 90210 as Nostalgia Television

Crystal Kile
My life as an instructor in the environment of the undergraduate popular culture studies/television studies classroom is roughly contiguous with the life of the wildly popular FOX series, Beverly Hills 90210.

Everyone's a Poet: Criticizing the Poetry Slam

John Brady
Perhaps poetry slams and open-mike nights would be the primary mode of expression in a more inclusionary and active culture. However...

Confessions of an American Poet

Ron Alcalay
Slamming isn't my favorite kind of poetry reading; it privileges the long poem (because of its one poem limit) and leaves us hungry for greater intimacy with the poet. But I'll cop to slamming.

Wrapped School

Joe Sartelle
I was utterly mystified when they began to encase the school across the street in huge sheets of semi-transparent plastic.

Voices from the Collective

Brian Harvey, Joe Sartelle, Joe Stone, Steven Rubio
Letters from readers about past articles.