Humanizing The Vacuum

My review of the TK Webb and the Visions' latest single is up.

On his radio show Glenn Greenwald interviews Daniel Ellsburg, the former RAND Corporation employee whose release of the infamous "Penta...

The picture tells us how The Witnesses approaches the subject of AIDS in mid eighties France: insouciantly. We know – the characters vaguel...

I remember the shock when I read Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One a couple of years after Brideshead Revisited . Imagine listening to the ...

Good news here and here. In the first link, the House votes to revoke the travel ban on AIDS victims by an overwhelming margin (303-115); ...

A review of Entertainment Weekly TV critic Gillian Flynn's debut novel Sharp Objects.

One of my favorite songs. "It's Over" for the eighties.

Far more disturbing than the heat and the sight of women in black Spoon T-shirts during Pitchfork Music Festival was the new Batman flick, T...

I'll remember Pitchfork Music Festival this year for the great times with friends I too rarely see and the heat (as a South Floridian I ...

I've been Pitchforking for the last four days: at the music festival and hanging out with friends. See you on Monday.

Yes, yes, I know "Caught Up In You" is the kitschklassic, but I can't resist "Second Chance," .38 Special's only...

Remember Imani Coppola? She's back , and, boy, is she mad at a certain female British Grammy winner.