Unorthodoxly Orthodox

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Novel: "My Name Is Asher Lev" by Chaim Potok
Autobiography: Surfing Rabbi by Nachum Shifren
Nonfiction: Cool Jew by Lisa Alcalay Klug
Article: "Putting the 'fun' in fundamentalism" by Mark I. Pinsky
Album: This Is Babylon by Y-Love
Album: Youth by Matisyahu
Album: Heavenly Jams Band by Piamenta
Website: http://www.rivkahk.com/
Blog: Frum Outdoorsman: Rare but Possible
Blog: Frum Satire | Jewish Comedy
Blog: The Jew & The Carrot
Blog: cool yiddishe mama
Blog: Anarcho-Judaism
Blog: Hasidic Rebel
Blog: One Frum Skeptic
Blog: frum female
Blog: A Frum Punk
Website: http://rabbisimcha.com/
Wikipedia: Jewish religious movements

Tupac

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Poetry: The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur
Book: Tupac: Resurrection by Tupac Shakur et al
Biography: Tupac Shakur by Heather Forkos
Nonfiction: The Killing of Tupac Shakur by Cathy Scott
Album: 2Pacalypse Now by Tupac Shakur
Album: Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. by Tupac Shakur
Film: Juice (1992)
Film: Gridlock'd (1997)
Article: "Tupac's Book Shelf" by Mark Anthony Neal
Article: "The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 86) Tupac Shakur" by 50 Cent
Wikipedia: Tupac Shakur

Walt Disney: The Man and His Company

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Biography: Walt Disney: An American Original by Bob Thomas
Biography: Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince by Marc Eliot
Autobiography: Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet
Website: http://www.waltdisneymuseum.org/
Film: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Film: Fantasia (1940)
Film: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1954)
Film: Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
Film: Mary Poppins (1964)
Film: The Jungle Book (1967)
Wikipedia: The Walt Disney Company

Mouse Morality: The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film

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Nonfiction: Mouse Morality: The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film by Annalee R. Ward
Nonfiction: Deconstructing Disney by Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan
Film: The Lion King (1994)
Film: Pocahontas (1995)
Film: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Film: Hercules (1997)
Film: Mulan (1998)
Article: "Beyond the mouse-ear gates: the wonderful world of Disney studies" by Cynthia Chris
Reference: Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia "The Lion King", "Pocahontas", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Hercules", "Mulan" by Dave Smith
Wikipedia: Disneyfication

The Cowboys Get Religion

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Album: God by Johnny Cash
Album: Show Me Your Way by Glen Campbell
Novel: The Backslider by Levi S. Peterson
Blogpost: "A Cowboy of Faith" by Editor Corbett
Article: "Ministry the cowboy way" by Bobby Ross Jr.
Documentary: "Cowboys Of Faith" (2006)
Memoir: "The Salt Block" by Bubba Stahl
Novel: Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed
Wikipedia: Circuit preacher

Black Cowboys

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Nonfiction: The Negro Cowboys by Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones
Picture book: Black Cowboy, Wild Horses by Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney
Autobiography: The Life and Adventures of Nat Love by Nat Love
Novel: Ebony Marshal by Sean Chandler
Album: The Essential Charley Pride by Charley Pride
Film: Blazing Saddles (1974)
Film: Silverado (1985)
Wikipedia: Cowboy

Little Red Riding Hood

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Nonfiction: Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked by Catherine Orenstein
Children's novel: Wolf by Gillian Cross
Film: Red Riding Hood (2004)
Film: Hoodwinked! (2005)
Music video: "Call Me When You're Sober" for Evanescence (2006)
Short film: "Red Hot Riding Hood" (1943)
Short film: The Story of Little Red Riding Hood (1949)
Poem: "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" by Roald Dahl
Picture book: Ruby by Michael Emberley
Picture book: Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault and James Marshall
Picture book: The Wolf's Story by Toby Forward and Izhar Cohen
Fairy tale: "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" by Charles Perrault
Fairy tale: "Rotkäppchen" by the Brothers Grimm
Song: "Li'l Red Riding Hood" by Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs
Comics: Spider-Man Fairy Tales #1
Wikipedia: Little Red Riding Hood

Repartee

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Short story collection: My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Play: The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Play: Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
Film: Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Film: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Film: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Nonfiction: Viva la Repartee by Mardy Grothe
Essay: "Twitter Aphorisms, Epigrams and Repartee" by Tim O'Reilly
Essay: "H-E-E-E-E-RE'S BARRY!" by Dave Barry
Wikipedia: Wit

Of, and, for, or about Castro

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Speeches: "History Will Absolve Me", "On the Triumph of the Revolution", "One Hundred Years of Struggle for Cuban Independence", "Rectifying the Errors of the Cuban Revolution", "Assessing Half a Century of the Cuban Revolution" by Fidel Castro
Novel: Escape from Castro by Mario Lamar
Novel: Flight to Freedom by Ana Vesiana-Suarez
Film: Bananas (1971)
Documentary film: Fidel: The Untold Story (2003)
Nonfiction: The Man Who Invented Fidel by Anthony Depalma
Wikipedia: Fidel Castro

San Francisco (no earlier than twenty years ago)

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Novel: Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Novel: McTeague by Frank Norris
Film: Bullitt (1968)
Film: The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Film: Vertigo (1958)
Film: San Francisco (1936)
Song: "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" by Tony Bennett
Song: "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)" by Scott McKenzie
Song: "San Francisco" by Jeanette MacDonald
Photo book: San Francisco's Chinatown by Judy Yung
Nonfiction: San Francisco : a cultural and literary history by Mick Sinclair
Wikipedia: History of San Francisco

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Novel: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Novel: My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Nonfiction: Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman
Comics: Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
Website: http://www.fromthetop.org/
Website: http://www.teenspoint.org/teenart/index.asp
Magazine: a recent issue of Teen Ink
Movie: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)
Wikipedia: Alliance for Young Artists & Writers

Just your average upper-middle-class African-American family

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Novel: The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Television: The Cosby Show, "A Shirt Story" and "Clair's Case" and "Mr. Quiet" and "Cliff's Birthday"
Television: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, "The Fresh Prince Project" and "Clubba Hubba" and "Mistaken Identity" and "Kiss My Butler"
Radio news: "Black Brokers On Obama" by Celeste Headlee
Article: "The Secrets of Success of Wealthy African Americans" by Jevaillier Jefferson
Website: http://www.bravotv.com/Real_Housewives_Of_Atlanta/season/1/bios/index.php
Nonfiction: Blue-Chip Black by Karyn R. Lacy
Wikipedia: Black billionaires

For Love of Luna

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Film: The Right Stuff (1983)
Film: Apollo 13 (1995)
Film: 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968
Short film: Le Voyage Dans la Lune (1902)
Nonfiction: Apollo by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox
Novel: Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke
Children's nonfiction: Reaching for the Moon by Buzz Aldrin
Nonfiction: The Moonlandings, chapter 16, "First Steps -- and Where They Led" by Reginald Turnill
Song: "Monochrome" by The Sundays
Webpage: hhttp://windows2universe.org/mythology/planets/Earth/moon.html
Wikipedia: Moon

The Russian Space Program

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Photography: Kosmos: A Portrait of the Russian Space Age by Adam Bartos
Nonfiction: Sputnik: The Shock of the Century by Paul Dickson
Television documentary: NOVA: Sputnik Declassified (2007)
Article: "Going to Space? First Stop: Eight Months of Grueling Training in Russia's Star City" by David Kushner
Website: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/partners/aol/special/sputnik/
Website: http://www.sputnikmania.com/
Article: "Sputnik -- one man's dream" by the Associated Press
Blogpost: "Sputnik was just a rocket booster!" by Kim Sbarcea
Article: " Russia's space program is struggling to recruit a new generation of cosmonauts" by Mara D. Bellaby
Article: "Russia thriving again on the final frontier" by Alan Boyle
Wikipedia: Russian Federal Space Agency

The Great Deluge

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Scripture: Bible The Book of Genesis, chapters 6-10
Epic poem: The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI
Novella: Atlantis by Orson Scott Card
Nonfiction: Noah's Flood by William Ryan and Walter Pitman
Article: “Svalbard Global Seed Vault: a ‘Noah’s Ark’ for the world’s seeds” by Marte Qvenild
Film: Waterworld (1995)
Webpage: http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/floods.htm
Wikipedia: Deluge (mythology)

Football Season

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Nonfiction: How Football Explains America by Sal Paolantonio
Novel: North Dallas Forty by Peter Gent
Nonfiction: Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
Film: Any Given Sunday (1999)
Film: Horse Feathers (1932)
Film: The Waterboy (1998)
Film: Remember the Titans (2000)
YouTube: "The Super Bowl Shuffle:The Bears"
Wikipedia: Formation (American football)

Blacklisted!

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Article: "I'm No Communist" by Humphrey Bogart
Documentary short: The Hollywood Ten (1950)
Film: The Majestic (2001)
Film: Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
Memoir: I'd Hate Myself in the Morning by Ring Lardner Jr.
Article: "Hollywood Blacklist" by Dan Georgakas
Article: "Many Refuse to Clap as Kazan Receives Oscar" by Patrick Goldstein
Article: "How the Film and Television Blacklists Worked" by Richard A. Schwartz
Memoir: Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist by Bernard Gordon
Wikipedia: Hollywood blacklist

The Cold War

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Memoir: Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy
Film: The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Film: From Russia with Love (1963)
Film: Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Website: http://www.coldwar.org/
Webpage: http://www.inthe80s.com/coldwar.shtml
Nonfiction: The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
Novel: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Song: "Leningrad" by Billy Joel
Wikipedia: History of Soviet and Russian espionage in the United States

What meaning "Freak"?

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Film: Freaks (1932)
Television: Freaks and Geeks, "Tricks and Treats"
Novel: Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Song: "Superfreak" by Rick James
Song: "Le Freak" by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Song: "Freak" by Silverchair
Nonfiction: Jesus Freaks by dc Talk
Manga: Anne Freaks Volume 1 by Yua Kotegawa
Novel: Freak by Marcella Pixley
Blog: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/
Wikipedia: Freak

Math Is Fun

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Film: Good Will Hunting (1997)
Nonfiction: Radical Equations, chapter four, "Bouncing a Ball" by Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb
Nonfiction: Kiss My Math by Danica McKellar
Television: Numb3rs, "Sabotage"
Nonfiction: The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio
Novel: Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
Comics: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, Annie Di Donna
Songs: "Lobachevsky" and "That's Mathematics" and "New Math" by Tom Lehrer
Wikipedia: Srinivasa Ramanujan