by Ana Marie Cox And Jason Linkins
by Seth Colter Walls
By avant-music metrics, last night was pretty star-studded over at The Stone on Avenue C…
by Marisa Meltzer
The West Coast Adventure Takes a Turn — An Unsought Date — Some Spiritual Guidance, in the Form of Books — Liplocked! — In the Buff — Locavore Etiquette — The Worst Thing…
“Minimalists tend to do better than maximalists. Flinty and workmanlike seem to win the day…. It is the self-proclaimed geniuses who suffer. Writers of long sentences seem to do worse than the writers of short ones.” Tom Shone looks at what happens when writers go on the wagon. [Fair warning: The piece…
How crafty is Barack Obama? “As for the alleged ‘kookiness’ of birthers, a true conspiracy theorist would surely believe that Obama deliberately started the birth-certificate business in order to make it easier to dismiss his opponents as…
Jenny Diski, discussing documentaries in the London Review of Books, could just as easily be describing reality TV: “[W]hen documentaries return after every ad break, the narrator — voice-over or walking head — gives a full precis of the previous segments. You can’t expect an…
Rights activists lashed out Friday at local officials who allowed hundreds of infants to be dropped from the roof of a mosque in western India in the belief that the fall — which ends when the babies are caught in a bedsheet — would ensure good health and prosperity…
The Times cautionary ratings summary indicates much male genitalia.
You may have already seen this video of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani telling the President of the United States to “shut up,” which will certainly make you nostalgic for the civil and direct tone he set during his time in…
It only looks like an Onion headline.
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Okay, I raved enough about the movie in my review, so this will be the last time I mention it, but if you’re not living somewhere near a theater that’s showing In The Loop, it’s now available on On Demand. More details here.