Elsewhere- Mall Week.

This is may be kind of indulgent, but I'm hoping you will all appreciate it.
For some reason the Onion AV Club has declared this week "Mall Week" and is running a series of articles about and around shopping malls.

The first is a piece about the 1985 movie "Chopping Mall" which I must confess to not having seen. Yet.

There is also a quite lyrical article about how movie malls double as time machines , which is not as silly as it may sound.
And also, there is a great collection of 15 films with pivotal moments set in shopping malls that includes my personal favorite, "Fast Times At Ridgemont High".

Click through the links to read- I'll post updates during the week if there is anything else of note is added.

EDIT/UPDATE: Twelve songs about shoplifting
                            The beautiful artificiality of the American mallscape