Culture and Politics

• The Federal Communications Commission
  This is a well-maintained and informative resource. You should know how the government is regulating the media--that's what it means to put culture and politics together.

• U.S. Census Bureau
  Fully searchable, with lots of valuable information on who exactly the government thinks lives in the USA.

• Library of Congress

• American Studies Web
  This is the guide to American Studies resources on the Web.

• California Heritage Digital Image Access Project
  From UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library, this archive provides you with many, many images (photographs and the like) from California history. A must for all archive jocks.

• The English Server
  At Carnegie-Mellon, this site is filled with articles, links, and publicatins related to all aspects of the humanities and social sciences. Maintained by the inimitable Geoff Sauer.

• The Marx/Engels Archive

• Michael Lissack's Municipal Bond Scandal Website
  Nationally known whistle-blower in the world of high finance, Lissack's page is full of revealing, witty commentary.

(E-) Journals, Zines, Publications, and Newspapers

• Bad Subjects
  I co-founded Bad Subjects in 1992. Our slogan is "political education for everyday life." This is an online and print zine devoted to the ruthless criticism of everything existing. We're leftists unafraid to criticize leftist dogma, and cultural critics unafraid to enjoy culture. There's even a little bit of utopianism. Bad Subjects is the oldest online political zine, and one of the oldest online publications period.

• The Left Business Observer
  Doug Henwood's spectacular journal of radical politics and economics offers keen insight into the world of big business and big government -- with hard stats to back it up.

• Zinemart
  A zine mart? Hmm . . . kinda weird to put it that way. Nevertheless, a good source of information online. Zinesters of the Factsheet Five variety usually scorn e-zines, so it's nice to have some positive representation on the web.

• Bright Lights Film Journal
  A popular-academic hybrid of movie analysis, history, and commentary.

• Film Threat
  "Hollywood's indie voice" is a free weekly with reviews, commentary, and coverage of film industry events.

• Advertising Age
  The magazine for commerce culture. Creepy yet luridly fascinating.

• Entertainment Weekly
  Very slick and yet also very smart magazine covering everything from music and movies, to new media and books. Our theory is that a lot of former academics write for this magazine. Highly recommended.

• The Village Voice
  Founded by Norman Mailer in 1955, this is one of the oldest alternative weekies in the United States. The Voice covers news and culture which aren't quite mainstream.

• Boston Phoenix
  Highly respected arts and entertainment newspaper with added bonus of extensive coverage of the queer community.

• Rolling Stone
  The famous rock magazine online.

• HotWired
  Wired Magazine online, and it's much, much better. Covers new media and cyberculture, and includes daily updates which do not appear in the magazine. Also sponsors the web satire zine Suck.

• Science Fiction Weekly
  A professional magazine devoted to the latest scifi entertainment news.

• Galaxy Magazine (Online Version)
  One of the oldest and most influential scifi magazines of the 20th Century. You'll find back issues here, and a history of the magazine. Hint: when you arrive, go to the "editorial offices" on their odd map.

Entertainment

• Amazon.com
  The first and best giant online bookstore. Consume some books today!

• Le Video
  Located at the edge of my fabulous neighborhood in San Francisco, this video store is one of the only institutions that actually inspired me to kneel down in gratitude when I first entered it. Simply the best collection of videos available, including cult, foreign, TV, horror, and pornography. Plus the biggest collection of videos from Something Weird I've ever seen.

• Reel Video
  I have a lot of problems with the way these folks have organized their store in Berkeley (very incoherent genres). On the other hand, I like being able to buy movies online, and they let you rent movies for five days. Their prices are good, and the selection, while disorganized, is big.

• The Internet Movie Database
  Full of great information and trivia about practically any movie you might imagine.

• TV Link
  Huge and well-organized index of links relating to television (and some film). Includes studios, individual shows, and archives. This is a good place to start any TV-related research project.

• TV Guide Entertainment Network
  It's TV Guide online, with lots of snappy and current TV information, plus extra stuff on sports and music.

• Cult TV Episode Guide
  Links to episode guides online for cult shows from The X-Files to Starsky and Hutch.

• Nielsen Ratings for TV
  Nielsen ratings, updated weekly, plus an archive of past weekly ratings.

• Ultimate TV
  Daily news about everything related to television from Los Angeles.

• SF Site
  Up-to-date and slickly presented information/reviews on contemporary scifi books and other media. Highly recommended.

• SciFi, Fantasy, and Horror Book Database
  This database is a collection of books, synopses, reviews, and author biographies from the scifi, fantasy and horror genres.

• Publisher's Weekly Bestseller Lists
  Features several bestseller lists, from children's lit. to mass market paperbacks. You can also search the bestseller list database.

• Book Wire
  Information on contemporary books and the book industry. Also hosts several trade journals, as well as the BookInfo database, which includes reviews and "author event" dates.

Domestic

• A family picture from the mid-1970s
  Maybe I should have put this on my weird page under "cheese."

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