Jesse James Hollywood On Trial: Part One

by Natasha Vargas-Cooper

SANTA BARBARA-Trials are terrible things in that they bring people together. This past Friday, in the afternoon, Jack Hollywood, a brawny man in billowy khaki pants and dark sunglasses, stood in the sun at…

The Great Lie About Social Security And France

They say that travel broadens the mind, but for any hardy soul who journeyed through the Memorial Day edition of the Washington Post to approximate that experience, they’d have to move through the A-section back to front. That’s because the op-ed…

Crossword Corner: Look Back In Anger

by Alex Pareene

This week’s puzzle: short, but hard! (Mmmph… OKAY, okay, that’s what she said!) Print and enjoy in the privacy of your cubicle, if you still have one.

News Blender: California, Eminem, That Couple With The Assload Of Kids

We don’t always cover every story that happens during each day’s news cycle, so here’s a capsule summary of recent events: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposal to close California’s budget gap by killing…

Sensitive Aussies Upset By Hasty Climax Ad

NYT Buries Truth About Undead Animator

One of the knocks on the mainstream media is its function as “gatekeeper,” deciding what news the public should know and which details should be withheld. Last week the Times-the greatest “gatekeeper” of all, unless we’re talking about national security, in…

New Kanye West Video: Paranoid

Videos: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs On Tour

Man Finds Profundity In Commonplace Experience: A Continuing Series

Hey, it’s another one of those patented Alex Balk Metropolitan Diaries! This one is even less relevant and more disgustingly sentimental than previous, if such a thing is possible, so if that’s gonna gross you out…

Sotomayor: The Case Against Confirmation

Absent massive scandal-and one would think that by now the White House has finally…