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Monica waxes on The Ultimate Thrill (1974), is informed that her time is coming to an end (in this space).
A 2019 KEXP interview with musician John Dwyer vs. a 2018 Los Angeles Review of Books interview with cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb.
Back in Action is a fine, although long-delayed, vehicle for Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl isn’t just a great sequel, but an argument in favor of an antiquated form of art.
Star columnist Dan Rodricks leaves The Baltimore Sun after nearly 50 years. What Year is it (#527)
The old forms are dead. There’s only this moment; you realize you’ve already been there.
Beetlejuice, Caliber 9, and Lancelot du Lac.
How a middling British writer packaged others' ideas and sold them to a generation before being canceled for his assorted misdeeds.
The history of 20 St. Mark's in the Bowery, the oldest building on 2nd Ave. (1799).
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's interest in architechture and the fantastical is essential to understanding his cinema.
The Stars and Stripes don't need to be saddled with such a burdersome country.
The Danish true crime thriller The Girl With The Needle is among the scariest horror films in years.
An altar boy discovers a nightmare in the last pew.
A look at the new Yacht Rock “dock”umentary.
We should ease the pain of the victims even as we embrace the coming college collapse.
Solometo gives the class another writing assignment.
Bright pyre, liberal city revisited.
Teaser: Palmer fares poorly too.
“Politicize” is for losers.
With a little planning, a sense of humor, and maybe a well-timed snack break, you can handle it.
I need a break from Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, and Matthew McConaughey. Let's see, who else?
Jamik Ligon’s Every Runner, Every Day is an engaging, idiosyncratic memoir of a man and his sport.
It’ll be mobbed on July 27th, when Ichiro’s inducted.
Focusing on the money. Or not.
The awe-inspiring first five minutes of the late David Lynch's 2001 masterpiece.
An obscure, low budget conspiracy thriller set at ski resort starring Britt Ekland.
Recorded by the Moscow String Quartet in 1995.
The band perform at the Palais d'Auron in the middle of their tour for Antics on May 23, 2005.
The late James Bond talks to Opie, Anthony, and Jim Norton in this November 9, 2011 interview.
The controversial actor and filmmaker talks about his new movie Flight Risk and much more in this two and a half hour conversation.
The legendary indie band play what would become the second song on their acclaimed and widely influential 1991 album Spiderland.
The performer talks to Johnny Carson on this December 28, 1972 episode of The Tonight Show.
The actress talks about her recent hit in this conversation sponsored by SAG-AFTRA.
The actress talks with Josh Horowitz about her recent projects.
The TrueAnon co-host talks to Friedland about current events and much more.