"Stairway to Stardom" is a big, flashing target: This 1980s public-access cult phenomenon featured a wide variety of people strutting their stuff with a blithe confidence unsupported by any evidence of traditional talent.
One enterprising refugee has set up a thriving business helping people recover and print those photos from their phones, a phenomenon featured in a new documentary, "District Zero," produced in collaboration with Oxfam.
Yet these attention-wary citizens have become a media phenomenon, featured in films, novels, magazines, newspapers, and television from Witness, Amish in the City, and Devil's Playground to the intense news coverage of the 2006 Nickel Mines School shooting.
Now, FriFotos has become a Twitter phenomenon featured in major news media and a nearly round-the-clock discussion on the social media site.
His recent show at Tracy Williams, Ltd., in New York, titled Anatomy of a Phenomenon, featured paintings of people who claim to have had a UFO-related encounter, extraterrestrial-related or not.
And while Argento may get his kicks out of killing beautiful women, Suspiria and Phenomena feature heroines as plucky as they come; even The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Profondo Rosso or The Stendhal Syndrome subvert traditional female roles.
Bonus Features include episode selection and in-depth explanations of all the sea phenomena featured in the episodes via short animations and fun songs!
But it is not just blue-collar men struggling to build and keep a family, says Jonathon Narducci, a film-maker whose documentary on the mail-order bride phenomenon, Love Me, features Wilson.
She's also a part of the online "snackwave" phenomenon, which features young women and teenage girls sharing their obsession with snack foods, with Clapp regularly singing her praises of pies and her grandmother's dill pickles.
