Familiar Face on Wisteria Lane
On the bustling Wisteria Lane, the famous street on a Universal back lot where facades have grown into working homes to shoot in, the colors becoming more vivid and the…
TV Critics Press Tour Begins
I don’t know much about birds or Capistrano, but TV writers and critics have returned to Beverly Hills for the summer TV critics press tour that starts today with a…
Worst Comic-Con Yet
Oh, it’s gotten a lot bigger in recent years, but the San Diego Comic-Con has gotten more and more weird since they opened the doors to all manner of movies…
Playlist 7-23-10
New stuff from M.I.A., some songs that are part of the McCartney at the White House event showing on public TV next week (and some that are not). And more…
Martin Luther King vs. Lindsay Lohan
Imagine: If only Lindsay Lohan could Tweet from jail. What gems we could be savoring. Jail has been an inspiration for some of mankind’s greatest thinkers and so it might…
Labor Implications of 'Jersey Shore' Strike
The entertainment world is closely watching the shocking news of one of the biggest strikes to hit the industry since Jay Leno pretended to write his own jokes. The cast…
Mom's Names for Kool-Aid Man
One of the things that came up in cleaning out the family house were all manner of secrets (including one about my dad that involved changing his name that’s quite…
Playlist 7-15-10
New stuff from Ratatat, Alejandro Escovedo, Paul Weller, Laurie Anderson and Peter Gabriel. A somewhat indulgent (and scratchy) selection of 45s I saved from my family estate sale last weekend,…
Regarding 'Omaha Mall'
Back in Nebraska Saturday night, my heart sank when I saw the high-ranking subject trending on Twitter: Omaha Mall On an earlier trip back, a shooting spree in the city…
Fireworks in Connecticut
When fireworks were slowly decriminalized in Connecticut, the shock wasn’t the barrage you’d hear on July 4th so much (that stayed about the same). It was seeing big fireworks bundles…