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06/11/2024

Today's second pick in The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide is a Blu Ray release of a documentary about the legendary punk rock label, Fat Wreck Chords...

A Fat Wreck: The Punk-U-mentary Available in different editions from Vinegar Syndrome This pick in The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide is a bit specialized. It’s for the aging punk rocker who still l…

06/11/2024

Today's first pick in The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide is a great (not for kids) graphic novel...

Blessed Be by Rick Altergott Fantagraphics ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1683967781 $24.99 A great gift for the fan of indie comics on your holiday shopping list, Blessed Be is the first long-from work by cart…

05/11/2024

Next up in The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide is a book that shows the power of George Washington in pop culture, comics and more...

CLOAKED CRUSADER GEORGE WASHINGTON IN COMICS & POP CULTURE written and edited by Renee Witterstaetter art by various, cover by Michael Golden Little Eva Ink ISBN: 9798889554288 $39.99 from the …

05/11/2024

Today's first entry in The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide is a deluxe new mix of the classic King Crimson album, "RED."

Our first music pick for The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide is a new vinyl pressing (also available on CD in a deluxe boxed set) of King Crimson’s 1974 masterpiece, RED. This one’s for the mor…

05/11/2024

PopCult has notes and the playlist for today's new Three-hour Radio Free Charleston...

On this election day, we have an all-new three-hour show. You’d be surprised how much you can cram into a three-hour show, when you’re hoping for the best, but also hiding in your home …

04/11/2024

Our second post for The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide today recommends apparel, accessories and home decor specifically for the die-hard fan of Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's "The Shining"...

Today’s second entry in The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide is a collection of items inspired by the carpet pattern from The Overlook Hotel, as seen in Stanley Kubrick’s adaption of Stephen Kin…

04/11/2024

Today's first entry in The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide is a locally-produced, high-end coloring book featuring the fantasy art of Brion Woods...

Bearclaw’s Realms of Fantasy: Bearclaw’s World Presents Vol 1 Plates 1 – 52 by Brion Woods (Author), Janice Wagoner (Editor) Independently published ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8332906152 $…

04/11/2024

PopCult's Monday Morning Art is an ink-wash study that will likely be redone at some point. The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide posts will go live shortly...

This week’s art is me revealing a bit of my process. Based on a few photos I took in Chicago, this is the beginning of a painting of a couple of distinctive buildings. For this small study on…

03/11/2024

PopCult's Sunday Evening Video revisits the Colecovision video gaming system...

[HTML1] This week we are briging you most of a Sunday Evening Video that ran nearly four years ago. The reason for this is that I think this is a really cool set of videos that you’ll enjoy …

02/11/2024

PopCult's RFC Flashback brings you part six of our coverage of FestivALL 2010, with music from Brian Diller, Bare Bones and The Velvets, plus Jude Binder, Kitty Killton and musical easels...

[HTML1] From July, 2010, we have what was supposed to have been the sixth, and final installment of our coverage of FestivAll 2010. In this episode you will see Option 22, Brian Diller, Bare Bones…

01/11/2024

The first entry in The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide is The 2024 HESS FireTruck, Car and Motorcycle...

As has been tradition for more than the last decade, the first entry in The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide is this year’s HESS Toy Truck. And this year, their sixtieth year of producing a cool toy t…

01/11/2024

November means it's time for The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide to begin...

The PopCulteer November 1, 2024 It’s November first and that means it’s time to start the most anticipated series of posts in PopCult, our annual Gift Guide. Because of some unusual cir…

31/10/2024

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31/10/2024

PopCult points you to songs about the election today...

[HTML1] It seems appropriate on Halloween to bring you a song about one of the scariest things facing us…the possibility of the worst president in history getting re-elected next week and car…

30/10/2024

PopCult offers up another graphics-heavy list of STUFF TO DO in and around Charleston this week...

Your humble blogger is still in caregiver mode, while also trying to get a head start on The PopCult Gift Guide (which starts this Friday), so we are onced again resorting to a stripped-down, graph…

29/10/2024

Radio Free Charleston markes 200 episodes of our latest incarnation with three hours of local, independent and alternative music, include a deep dive into music from our video archives. Details in PopCult...

Really, it’s not a big deal. I mean, this is the second time we’ve hit episode 200, and if you add up all the previous incarnations of the show and toss in The RFC MINI SHOW and RFC Int…

28/10/2024

PopCult's Monday Morning Art is almost in the holiday spirit, plus we have Halloween programming on The AIR to get you the rest of the way there...

This week’s art started life as a small study on cheap canvas board, based on a photo I took on the Brown Line last summer in Chicago. Just like last week, if you were paying attention. Howe…

26/10/2024

PopCult's RFC Flashback goes to July, 2010, for part five of our look at FestivALL 2010, with music from The Velvets, Actual Rhinocerous and Comparsa, plus theatre, art an dance...

[HTML1] From July, 2010, we have the fith part of our coverage of FestivALL 2010. This was Episode 106 of Radio Free Charleston and was the next-to-last of our six-episode look at FestivAll 2010. …