Last month, Seth Godin wrote a post that both illuminates and complicates the realities for Mormon arts and culture. He outlines what he calls the passion/pop curve (make sure you click on the figure in the post to make it bigger so you can actually read it). The curves live on two axes — the [...]

The online magazine Slate recently posted Hanna Rosin’s review of Daniel Radosh’s new book Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture. Her (and Radosh’s) descriptions of Christian attempts to create safe knock-offs of popular forms of culture and entertainment will sound strikingly familiar to anyone with the slightest bit of knowledge [...]

My youngest sister recently shared the distressing news that the toasted wheat drink Postum has been discontinued. Created by Seventh-day Adventist health foods icon C.W. Post, the drink would appear to be a victim of the continued caffeinization of America. From what I can tell from Internet searches and anecdotal evidence, it would seem that [...]

A week ago the Washington Post took the unusual step of writing about the LDS Church in Nigeria, and in the process made a very interesting characterization of the Church there:
Many scholars say the Mormons’ decision not to adopt more local customs — such as incorporating African drumming or dancing into Sunday services — [...]

Eugene Woodbury recently sent in an e-mail to the AML List reacting to a recent commentary on the modern literary novel. I was taken by his ideas and asked him to expand a bit on the e-mail for an AMV guest post — here is the result (Wm Morris):
“What is wrong with the modern literary [...]

Or proof that you never know what a Google News alert will drag in…
From a round-up review of children’s books that appeared in the Oct. 9 edition of the Globe and Mail — an example of one of the facts included in the recently-published Animals and Their Mates: How Animals Attract, Fight for and Protect [...]

The October 2004 issue of In Focus (a publication of the National Association of Theatre Owners [hey! Trade mags are ultra-hip so you can keep the snide comments to yourself]) features an interview with South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The interview ends with this exchange:
“Between “Orgazmo” and the “South Park” Mormon episode, [...]

The days have slipped by, but I finally have found the time to take up the third question I posed on my initial post on Mormon artists and membership status. That is: Should an artist’s Mormon-ness be a factor when a Mormon decides which artistic products to consume?
I’m going to answer this question by laying [...]