Humanizing The Vacuum

Herewith, Dave Barry's year in review : Shortly thereafter McCain stuns the world, and possibly himself, by selecting Alaska Gov. Sarah ...

Thank you, Matos , for expressing what I thought in July when I heard Dennis Wilson's rightfully withheld masterpiece. I'll only add...

When I saw the trailer for Doubt , I smacked my lips: it looked like an (un)holy combination of Agnes of God meets Notes From a Scandal , a...

I contributed a couple of blurbs to Jeff Weiss' blog, which L.A. Weekly is publishing simultaneously: Hercules & Love Affair and TV...

One of my favorite Christmas songs, not least because it sets the mood for Steve Sanders' anguished parting from his friends as he begin...

1. Erykah Badu - New America Part One (4th World War) 2. TV on the Radio - Dear Science 3. Robert Forster - The Evangelist 4. Ne-Yo - Year o...

Likely the ballot I'll submit to Pazz and Jop (the first ten anyway): 1. Hercules and Love Affair - "Blind" (Frankie Knuckles ...

Friends know how I feel about Husbands and Wives , Woody Allen's ode to bad marriages, Judy Davis perms, and Shakeycam. Nick Davis has w...

Although I've owned it for two years, I don't use my iPod "properly." It mostly acts as a musical way station, into which ...

This grows on me the more I listen to it.

When you amuse George Packer, he laughs long and hard, as he does here in this assessment of Sean Penn's journalistic talents.

I don't yet own the remastered first-time-on-DVD Earrings of Madame De. .. (I treasure my videocassette copy), but it would have to be a...