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"It's very fascinating to look at these shows in the time-capsule sense," Ms. Churner said.

Before the Web, It Was Public-Access Steve Dollar 2011

Actually, the best motto of all is coined by outsider Ben, who looks out at the contentious town meeting which ends up being recorded for the ultimate time-capsule entry and declares Pawnee as a place for "Weirdos Who Care."

Matt's TV Week in Review 2011

Katherine Haxton at Endless Possibilities 2.0 asked for life snapshots of the time-capsule variety for this month's Scientiae carnival.

May Scientiae: Time Capsules Peggy 2009

The mix tapes that kick off every chapter are total time-capsule candy for anyone who grew up with, say, Duran Duran and U2 and grew into the indie-era of Pavement and Superchunk and others (in fact, many others: the mixes are delightfully mixy and eclectic, criss-crossing time and genre: you'll quickly understand why he listens to them over and over).

October 2009 2009

The series also offers some really hard-to-see, video-store grails like Allan Arkush's "Get Crazy," with Malcolm McDowell as a Mick Jagger clone headlining a fateful New Year's Eve show, and Walter Hill's disregarded "Streets of Fire," a real time-capsule artifact starring a teenage Diane Lane as a damsel in distress, kidnapped by bad guy Willem Dafoe as a biker named Raven.

Singing and Dancing on Celluloid Steve Dollar 2011

It's hard to believe no one has done a film tribute to Roger Corman before Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, Alex Stapleton's loving time-capsule of the career of one of the true independent filmmaking sensibilities of all time.

Marshall Fine: Movie review: Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel Marshall Fine 2011

Still, it's hard not to cough up a laugh when she materializes in "Potiche," François Ozon's time-capsule comedy about a woman on the verge.

Deneuve, Tart Humor Elevate 'Potiche' John Anderson 2011

What the physical space has lost in its time-capsule charm, it has gained in a bustling, fashionable scene, making it one of the coolest restaurants of the moment.

Hats Off Amid Changes 2011

All seven of these stories are standouts, but if I had to pick only three to put in a time-capsule for the ages, they'd be:

Boing Boing 2009

Those who believe that a powerful, old-style, professional civil service is an absolute necessity for high-quality government to take place, and who regard Labour's neutering of the civil service's power as the actions of a bunch of teenage thinkers, whose understanding of politics and human affairs has been locked into the time-capsule of a sixth-form debating society.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010