the lost doonesbury strips on harriet miers

It could be my political slant, of course, but Garry Trudeau has done terrific work in the last couple years, methodically shellacking the B...

dangerdoom

The hottest MC and the hippest DJ came together for a little irreverent fun, and the results are the very stellar The Mouse and the Mask .

consumables

In bite-sized form, here are my reviews of Shopgirl , Capote , Good Night, and Good Luck and many other wonderful pop-culture items. I call...

calvin and hobbes

A genuinely funny comic strip stands above the medium's mediocrity so easily that there's a tendency to overrate any brief flicker o...

paul zimmerman: football for non-dummies

Dr. Z, longtime NFL writer for Sports Illustrated , is a hero of mine for his ability to blend the personal anecdote with the objective anal...

animal collective

My review of Animal Collective's new album Feels appears in the Phoenix New Times .

who is rodrigo garcia?

A very nice, very funny, very smart man with a great new movie called Nine Lives . I talked to him about it for the LA Weekly .

life lessons from robert christgau, part one

Robert Christgau has been writing about music at the Village Voice for over 30 years now. His body of criticism is an inspiration to anyone ...

how to write an appreciation; or, remembering august wilson

When someone well-regarded in the arts dies, he or she usually receives both an obituary and an "appreciation" from most publicati...

a history of violence

David Cronenberg's A History of Violence has been praised as a searing indictment of America and its gun-crazy culture. I disagree .