NY Magazine's Approval Matrix

Every week, NY Magazine publishes an approval matrix. It looks like this:

 

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They rank various entertainments, events, and popcultia on a range from highbrow to lowbrow, and brilliant to despicable. 

Check out the approval matrix from this week. Think about the following while you're reading it:

• Who is NY Magazine's audience?
• How can you tell this from the matrix? What do they assume the audience knows and understands?
• Do you get most of the references?
• Do you agree with the highbrow/lowbrow assessments? 
• How does it seem that they determine highbrow or lowbrow?
• What things does the magazine seem to value highly? What does it dislike?
• What does this say about the values of the NY Magazine audience?

 We'll chat about this in class on Thursday... have a great Wednesday night, everyone!