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Some pieces of pop culture are enormous enough to make craters, not just impacts. Even kindergarteners and Kalahari Bushmen recognize “Book ‘em, Danno.” and The Ventures driving theme song of drums and horns from CBS’s landmark television show Hawaii Five-O. Debuting in 1968, the series raised the standard for what audiences expected from their weekly...

If you haven’t caught any of Adam Reed’s FX Network animated spy spoof Archer yet, you may be forgiven for wonder why we’re covering a cartoon this month. One of the latest in a long running line of American satirical cartoons that stretch arguably back to The Flintstones, Archer deviates slightly from the formula established...

A look at the guns of Justified, from a gun enthusiast’s viewpoint. Everything you need to know about the FX cable television series Justified and its protagonist U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (played by Timothy Olyphant) is established in the first scene of the first episode of the first season. Unable to tolerate the existence of...

By Peter Barrett. Lone Survivor Guns Article was originally published in the August 2014 issue of GunUp the Magazine. In the middle stages of our long war in Afghanistan, after the initial overthrow of the Taliban and before the desultory Coalition draw-down into isolated enclaves, the U.S. Marines operating in the Korangal Valley aggressively pursued and...

As I recall, there were two kinds of boys in the early ‘80s: those who wanted to grow up to be Thomas Magnum, and liars. I suppose those who weren’t allowed to stay up and watch the show get a pass, but being a handsome and suave war hero living a life of adventure and...