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  Have a good spring break, y’all!  Avidly won’t be posting this week, but  we’ll be back next week with ideas about: Disney; Dance Movies; Sail Boats; Writing; Eye Brows; Aging; Probably More Basketball. Also, a reminder that we’re always open for submissions–for instance, if you’d like to tell us about Spring Breakers (which...
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As the year winds down, we here at Avidly would like to thank you for your amazing contributions and support and enthusiasm. We’d like to end the semester by looking back at a handful of excellent posts you might like to reread as you decompress from a busy fall. Note that this doesn’t aim...
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We all remember when Edward bit those pillows the first time he and Bella did it, right? They were newlyweds then, and apparently are still newlyweds now, a whole movie later. The camera, as it enters the house, is Bella, surveying her new domestic space (the only thing that would make that incredibly literal...
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At this hopeful post-election moment, we’re struck by one fascinating difference between this week and its partner in 2008.  Whereas Obama’s first election was widely described as ushering in a “post racial” America, this time around the pundits seem to harbor no such lofty idealism. Indeed, quite the opposite—media attention has glommed on to...
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In the opening scene of ABC’s new drama Nashville, Connie Britton takes down her hair.  Well, it’s not totally Connie Britton. It’s Rayna James, Britton’s new country singer character, freeing her hair from its pins, getting ready to go on stage.  But you’ve got to think the directors knew what they were doing.  “Come...
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Origins Sarah M: For me the motivation for Avidly came from this sense that there was a shortage of places that published the stuff I wanted to read, and also to write. I was interested in work that brought intellectual rigor to a range of topics, while at the same time bringing the enthusiasm of...
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  “I’m holding out for a captivity narrative American Girl with a horse hoof in her pocket.” –Michael Snediker. “Share the HERO in YOU.”–American Girl Friends! You may have noticed: the days are shorter, the students are back, the summer is gone. Avidly, too, is ending…but just its first issue. We’re taking a brief hiatus to...
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Welcome to Avidly, a summer school experiment, if you will. This is a place to indulge enthusiasm for thinking and feeling about culture. We’ll be publishing Tuesdays and Thursdays until around Labor Day. Equal parts archive fever and incitement to discourse, Avidly was borne out of a desire to preserve some of the conversations we are having...
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