THE CURATOR: Death to the oldies, Beer week and Indians

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THE CURATOR: Death to the oldies, Beer week and Indians

POSTED: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 7:33 PM

Duran Duran = NOOOOOOOO!

Every Tuesday, Critical Mass pokes around the art blog world so you don't have to. — We all know there was a big picnic last weekend. Many of our hometown heroes took to the stage. If you missed it though, or for whatever reason find your recollection of the daylong lineup a bit hazy—blame it on the high levels of Ozone—take a look at Phrequency's phenomenal slideshow of the Roots Picnic. — Look at Philebrity's elegy to WGOL 98.1's upending of the traditional Oldies lineup. How so? The stations recently begun including '80s as Oldies, meaning that the '50s are gonna have to take a back seat. Don't get me wrong, I love '80s pop. But forcing Duran Duran or Devo onto my grandmother's golden years of Doo Wop just seems wrong. — Way too much going on with Beer Week so let me just remind you all — there's an App. for it: A Beer Week IPhone App. It'll do everything for you except keep you from dropping your 300 dollar smart phone into a tepid pool of street water because you were trying to work an App whilst shit faced. — In case you missed the match, you can still catch the back alley, verbal bludgeoning in Phillygrrl's unedited and uncut (believe me it's both) "How NOT to Date an Indian." PG lays into a Huffington Post writer for, you guessed it, giving advice on how to date an Indian. Only problem: PG skips that whole step "Non-Indians" call political correctness. Sorry Miss Miller, but it's a K.O. for PG.

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