The Cricket's Daily 3: Getting irate over "Girls'" nudity

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Here's what's being talked about in pop culture:

• The makers of HBO's "Girls" got ticked off at a reporter who questioned the nudity on the comedy — setting the Internet on fire briefly. [Entertainment Weekly]

• The "Veronica Mars" movie will premiere at SXSW, causing a perfect storm of hipster cool that will envelop the universe. [The Huffington Post]

• Influential and controversial poet Amiri Baraka, who helped found the Black Arts movement of the 1960s, died at the age of 79. [Washington Post]