By Ellen Mayer   Perhaps you’ve heard of The Hunger Games. In fact, if you watch television, use the Internet, or even walk around outside with your eyes open, you must have because the name is everywhere. Before The Hunger Games was a record-breaking movie with the highest weekend box-office of any non-sequel film, it was the first of three highly popular young adult fantasy books by Suzanne Collins. When Lionsgate acquired the movie rights in 2009, it also acquired a built-in audience, emulating a formula established by the Twilight and the Harry Potter movies. The books’ popularity alone, however, cannot account for the movie’s...

By Anika Ades   Bonnaroo, Manchester, TN, June 7 – 10 Cost: $255.00 and up. Lineup Highlights: Bonnaroo plays it safe, but you will not be disappointed with its three veteran headliners: Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Phish. Bon Iver, Foster the People, and Skrillex have broken into mainstream popularity this year and are guaranteed to put on excellent shows as well. Conspicuously absent are perennial Bonnaroo favorites, Dr. Dog, My Morning Jacket, and Mumford and Sons, as are the electronic groups that have come to define the late-night scene at the festival. To all you ecstasy-popping club kids: rage...

By Evan Tarantino   Despite its terrifying ability to render us helplessly socially exposed, the Internet is a fluid breeding ground for monumentality. Welcoming both the optimistically serious and the confidently inane, it has thrown the idea of cultural limitation to the dogs. Expression, creativity, and communication know no bounds and are thus able to exert their full and true potentials. The World Wide Web reaches so far beneath the tip of the cultural iceberg that we are often able to find exactly what we were looking for—and then some. Comedy is undoubtedly one of the cultural mediums most influenced by the web. Because...