Out of Sight, Like a Pumpkin

"Topless" photos threaten Hannah Montana juggernaut. I shouldn't have to explain this, but here goes: Topless = nipple. I...

The New York Times looks at Randy Newman's "Louisina 1927" and its evolution via the folk song tradition. While the song...

"Through Weegee's Lens" : The New York Times has a profile today of photographer Jill Freedman.

More info on the shark attack. After fielding phone calls about this all day, I can finally go home and watch the news and actually find o...

Breaking news: Fatal shark attack in Solana Beach.

Clinton, Obama, John Edwards all on The Colbert Report Thursday night. Hillary's bit just wasn't funny; Obama at least seemed to ...

Chris Gaffney, dead at 57. Only saw him perform once, at the Belly Up, opening for Dave Alvin with the Hacienda Brothers, and later playin...

Hazel Court, dead at 82. I watched her in The Raven just the other night.

The Nazi origins of the Olympic torch relay. Leni Riefenstahl staged the first torch relay, to "create the myth the Greeks never got ...

Ollie Jonston, Disney animator, dead at 95.

Padres lose in 22-inning overtime. After the 18th inning, sprinklers came on in the Park at the Park.

I saw a high school production of Urinetown: The Musical last weekend. Once I got over the awkwardness of being the only person in the aud...

Slate looks back at the photograph "The Soiling of Old Glory," from Boston's 1976 busing crisis. The slide show also include...

The Monty Hall problem hits research into cognitive dissonance. That article had a link to a vintage New York Times article from around t...

People like people with the same name. We like things that remind us of ourselves. So why does the new Mike Myers movie look to me like a...

So, I finally got around to returning to the library the VHS cassette trapped in my VCR. Returning it still entombed, of course. I hoped ...

Colbert announced the other day that he won a Peabody this year (he thanked the Peabodys and their boy Sherman); now I see Wait Wait, Don...

Grand Prix head assures the public his orgy did not have Nazi undertones. No, sir, it was your typical, mom-and-pop, meat-and-potatoes org...

A look at the film D.O.A. . Included is a promotional piece suggesting theaters host an essay contest, with the theme of when a man is jus...

Seuss sez: Stop making movies of my books.