Humanizing The Vacuum

I do agree with Jess Harvell : Bonzo Goes To Washington's legendary cut "5 Minutes" is a dud. This collaboration between Talki...

So Arlen Specter is, in the words of Jonathan Chait , an "unprincipled hack," but in that he's not charmless. Better an unprin...

The death of Bea Arthur has got me wondering where else to get my fill of her pert bullfrog voice and inflexible smirk besides old "Gol...

Thomas swears by the first Wendy and Lisa record -- it's one of his top ten albums, he told me once. The only post-Prince works of their...

While Adam Lambert can't bear the weight that Ann Powers puts on his (lovely) shoulders, she does as good a job as Tom Smucker, Peter S...

At the Supreme Court today, justices wrestled with the question of whether a strip search of a thirteen-year-old at a public school for Ibu...

After several recent desultory appearances, it's a relief to see Gore Vidal at near peak form, as he was on "Real Time With Bill Ma...

The new Pet Shop Boys album isn't memorable, sad to say. My review of Yes takes off from a discussion first stared by Scott and Thomas ...

StinkyLulu has a nice appreciation of one of the most beloved characterizations in movies: Juanita Moore in Imitation of Life .

Oh, look: Nora Ephron still thinks that Mike Nichols makes movies for Intelligent People. "One of the main things about Mike’s movies ...

The latest subject of George F. Will's ire: denim . So Tory he makes Samuel Johnson look like Clement Atlee, George the Bemused doesn...