29 September, 1995

200 POP Culture Sites

To celebrate NETCOM's 200th POP (Point Of Presence -- the name that is given to access points by the telephone communications people), we present 200 great POPular Culture Sites for your entertainment and edification.

Cultural Iconography

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The Andy Warhol Museum --Yahoo's Madonna Listings --Superman as well as The Lois and Clark Web -- Official Disney Stuff and Scott's Mickey Mouse Pages where you can tour Walt Disney Word and a compilation of Other Disney Links -- Popeye the Sailor -- John Lennon and the rest of the The Beatles -- Bob Dylan -- The Unofficial Yanni Page -- Godzilla -- Julio Iglesias -- Virtual Voyager: In Search of Elvis.

Hollywood, Film, and TV

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Hollywood Archeology -- Hollyweb movie previews, discussion of current films, who's shooting, and industry briefs -- Harrison Ford, the unofficial stuff page plus The BladeRunner Multimedia FAQ, Indiana Jones and Star Wars -- Star Trek Voyager -- Frank Zappa's Black Page -- At Rochester, there're some Monty Python scripts in a gopher. -- Doug Krause's WWW TV Server has audio files, photos, and FAQ lists -- Other sites: Gilligan's Island, M*A*S*H, The Andy Griffith Show, Beavis and Butt-Head Home Page, Encyclopedia Brady Bunch, the official Friends page as well as the Unofficial Friends' Jump Point, The Muppets including Pigs in CyberSpace, Can you find BigBird? Seinfeld and Home Improvement, Frasier and Wings, Sergeant Bilko and Cybill, Beverly Hills 90210 and it's neighbor 4616 Melrose Place, or visit Central Park West or The LA of The Rockford Files. Twin Peaks takes The Prisoner to A Party of Five on the Northern Exposure of Picket Fences painted NYPD Blue. Meanwhile, out in The Wild, Wild West The Rat Patrol and their Sisters are in Jeopardy of spinning The Wheel of Fortune until The Price is Right! For continuing information, see The Game Show Page. Who shot Mr. Burns? from The Simpsons. TVNet's Ultimate TV List thousands of links for hundreds of shows -- from The A-Team to The Young and Restless. Soaps can be accessed 24 hours a day, too. Try All My Children, Another World, As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, East Enders Fan Page, General Hospital, The Guiding Light Daily Update, Loving, One Life to Live, and The Young and the Restless. The rec.arts.tv.soaps.faq list of Web pages pertaining to Soaps. And because some of our favorite moments on television are commercials, here's A Commercial. Now are you ready for The Emmys? How about The Oscars?

Here are the US networks: NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, and UPN (Unofficial) as well as TV around the World. And the Entertainment Studios: Disney, MCA, MGM, Paramount, and New Line Cinema. And the current scorecards: Last weekend's top box office hits.

Music, Music, Music

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Janet's Page is there for you Janet Jackson fans. And her brother's latest can be found at History at Sony If you're a fan, you'll want to join The Michael Jackson Internet Fan Club. If you're not a fan, you'll want to check out Club Don't Scream. For some completely different Jacksons, try The Joe Jackson Archive and Alan Jackson. How about Bogus Records' Bull Moose Jackson & the Flashcats? Click on the link to hear their sound recording samples.-- Frank Sinatra -- a fan page and pointers to the The Frank Sinatra Mailing List. To subscribe to the list, send e-mail to listserv@vm.temple.edu , the body of the message consisting of the words "subscribe sinatra". All messages to the list should be directed to sinatra@vm.temple.edu.

Jazz Online points you to news about jazz artists and record labels. If Blues is more your thing, you might want to check out The Blues Birthday List to see what you should be celebrating this month. Not to mention The House of Blues, a site worth a long visit. House of Blues Studios might be your next stop. If you're a reader as well as a listener, you might want to check out Da Capo Press and their catalog of books about blues and jazz artists. King Biscuit Time celebrates the blues and the people who sing them. The Blue Highway takes you on a Cybertour of The land where the blues began. Link to the cult movie The Blues Brothers for an alternative Blues vision. And now for something completely different: The Moody Blues.

Sony's List of Artists is a click away as is The Internet Underground Music Archives List of 600 Artists. Why don't you try Hula Monsters? Then there's the Mammoth Music Meta-List, quick access to artists from ABBA and Cecilia Bartoli to Stevie Ray Vaughn and ZZTop. Connect to the Rock Site of the Day! Still looking? Try The Ultimate Band List.

For fans of contemporary music, there's The Unofficial Kronos Quartet FanWeb and The Official Kronos Quartet Page from Warner Classics. Contemporary Music Info-Junction gathers information on computing and music and their intersection.

Then there is The Boston Chamber Ensemble, Gustav Mahler, The works of Antonio Vivaldi, and the Symphony Orchestras from San Francisco, Dallas, and Atlanta.

Are you now musically inspired? Want to try it yourself? Go to Guitar College. More information on doing it yourself (as well as the Windows 95 Blues) is presented on Bob Frazier's Music Page where you'll find the theory as well as the impetus to practice. The American Music Center has scores available for you to check out if you become a member. And, if you need a name for your group, try The Random Band Name Server.

Emags, 'zines, and stuff

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Metaverse by Adam Curry; Hotwired; Hype magazine and their Nostalgic Wave; Millenium Pop-- tracking the rapid changes of our networked, electronic culture --Exclaim! -- features, columns, art, reviews. Alternative-X and the The Floating Gallery of the Mind. Try People Magazine via Time-Warner's Pathfinder where you'll also find VIBE Online -- The BUZZ: Irish politics, music, history, and art. For similar material gathered in and about the English Language, try Carnegie Mellon University's English Server.

Booking it out

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Authors, Characters, and Publishers in search of an audience:

Del Rey Books-- Bantam Doubleday Dell -- Nancy Drew-- Sherlock Holmes -- Nero Wolfe -- The Regency Reader -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- The Magic of Xanth -- Isaac Asimov -- Jeffrey Carver -- Philip K. Dick -- Harlan Ellison -- William Gibson -- Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time -- Stephen King -- H.P. Lovecraft -- Melisa P. Michaels -- Bruce Sterling -- Julia West -- Robert Anton Wilson -- The Dilbert Zone (Definitely a character) --

Did we miss your favorite? Try here at the Speculative Fiction Clearinghouse. Or here at Yahoo's Publishing List and for fun: Internet for Kids Companion from Sybex.

David Plotnikoff's Modem Driver shouldn't be missed.

Pages defying categorization

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Kaleidospace (independant Internet artists) -- Today's short Tarot Reading (just for you -- but remember to pres s ReLoad if you aren't comfortable with the spread) -- Did your cards say you'll meet someone new? Maybe it'll be via Match.com -- American Memory makes you proud to be one -- The award winning Travels with Samantha -- George Brett's Knitted Web -- A multimedia tour of The Nine Planets -- The Fractal Explorer -- The Visible Human -- Stagecoaches from Wells Fargo -- Crash Site.

Sportin' on the Web

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Major League Baseball with pointers to Everyone's Favorite Team -- no? That one wasn't yours? Oh. How about US Soccer -- the men and the women with the crazy redhead from Birmingham, Michigan and the one with the Best Hair. Too bad the photo doesn't do it justice. If you want to get in shape for the next Winter Olympiad, check the Figure Skating page. Volleyball -- Golf -- Rugby -- SCUBA -- SkiWeb -- Tennis -- Great Lakes WindSurfing -- Mountain Climbing. Yes, all the Professional Sports are here, too, the National Football League, National Basketball Association, Sarah's Rodeo Page, Track and Field (Athletics) Statistics, and Wrestling. There're sports places and palaces on the 'Net, too, like Churchill Downs, and organizations like The Pacific 10 Conference.

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