Humanizing The Vacuum

Ariel Levy's profile of screenwriter-director Nora Ephron in the current New Yorker (you need to be a subscriber to move beyond the fi...

Last week's singles: Spoon , Major Lazer , Shakira (I keep trying), Rick Ross feat. Kanye West and T-Pain , Sway , Spinnerette , and Lov...

1990 had some of the worst Number One singles in rock. It wasn't at all a bad year for pop music generally: as a high school sophomore ...

Two Lovers, directed by the aptly named James Gray, demands some patience. Gwyneth Paltrow plays a variant on her depressive in The Royal T...

This week's singles: The Mars Volta , Marit Larsen , Ciara , Mary J. Blige ft. Drake , and Mariah Carey .

This is how I feel lately -- slightly worn and bloated too.

Johnny Depp and Christian Bale have the finest sets of cheekbones in moving pictures today, and they sure get a workout in Michael Mann'...

On the fortieth anniversary of Stonewall, cops raid a bar in Ft. Worth last Saturday, arrest seven people, and beat the shit out of one cust...

Fewer great historical events are brought about by the power of the new than by the enduring strength of the old. It is altogether more serv...

The best Michael Jackson obits I've read: Marcello Carlin (he hears Martin Fry and Trevor Horn in "Beat It"; about Off The Wa...

New bits on Kanye West ft. Mr. Hudson (people really do love 808 & Heartbreak ), Calle 13 ft. Ruben Blades , the inexplicable Phoenix ...

Bravo, Frank Rich : No president possesses that magic wand, but Obama’s inaction on gay civil rights is striking. So is his utterly uncharac...