Category: Tuesday

By now, you either love/hate/or have never heard of HBO’s Treme, David Simon’s ode to post-Katrina New Orleans the way The Wire was his love-song to Baltimore. People that love the show are probably tired of defending it, and people that have never heard of it would probably hate it. I started off thinking the…

Tonight’s episode of 60 Minutes (hands down the best news magazine on television and arguably the best journalism on broadcast TV) featured a harrowing story of survival for a North Korean political prisoner. He was born, raised, and would have died in Camp 14 (a prison camp that could have more than 15,000 prisoners in…

Now that the Twilight saga is officially over, the inevitable question surfaces of “What film is the best? And which one is the worst?” [And the word “best” is used as a loose translation of “which one won’t have me on suicide watch after thirty minutes?”] This is all largely a matter of personal taste,…

For those that don’t know, Allen West is a congressman from Florida. He’s part of the Tea Party, he’s one of the most aggressively partisan members of the House Republicans, he’s one of only a handful of black Republicans in congress, and he’s a former defense contractor/torturer that makes Herman Cain look like a nice…

As much as people love dissecting the candidates themselves for any little thing, I think it’s just as helpful to grade the moderators. First Debate…Moderated By: Jim Lehrer…What Worked: [Crickets]…What Didn’t: A ton. His performance was widely criticized by almost everyone. And you can’t say it’s just “liberal whining” because Obama lost the debate, conservatives…

That mouthful of a title is just an (to quote Mitt Romney) “inelegant” way of saying that noted gay activist Dan Savage dropped by a Barnes and Noble to promote his new book, and also answer some questions from the audience. Many know Dan from his numerous appearances on Real Time with Bill Maher and…

As the Democratic National Convention kicks into a higher gear, the question on everyone’s mind (at least, those that really only follow politics for the sensationalism…which is pretty much every political reporter and blogger on the planet) is “Will there be an ‘Eastwood’ moment?” By that, what they’re really wondering is “Will there be a batshit crazy…

Over the weekend, Egypt’s new Islamist President (I could write his name, but would it matter? We’d all forget it in two seconds and I don’t know that his name is as important as his political ideas which skew ultra-religious and rigid) ousted a few top military leaders from power. This is seen as a…

Yahoo’s new web series “Electric City” is set in some sort of vaguely defined post-apocalyptic city where electricity is a precious and coveted commodity. People are willing to steal for it, a quasi-fascist government will arrest people for overuse of it, and a secret society of “founders” (nefarious old ladies who quilt and plot murders)…

What’s a mega-star to do? Tom Cruise is finding himself in the middle of a very, very bad week. Perhaps the worst he’s had since he shot to mega-fame in Risky Business. I mean, a box office flop (Rock of Ages) that was supposed to show off his range, a divorce from his THIRD wife…

Tonight, I went to a Barnes and Noble mostly to check out new books and see what might be worth reading for next month’s Book of the Month Club pick, and inadvertently stumbled upon a book signing for the autobiography of Good Times’s Jimmy “Jay Jay” Walker, a man mostly known for saying “Dy-no-mitttttte!” but…