A year and a half ago I covered the Germs show and have been waiting for the Darby bio pic since. So it was I took Cooky to see WHAT WE DO...

Saw a screening of Kasi Lemmons', Talk To Me, with Fish and really enjoyed it. Cheadle is always solid but it's good to see Chiwet...

As I glanced at the cover of Vanity Fair's, "Africa Issue," I did my usual furrowing of the brow. After all, what can one of ...

John Conner: We're not gonna make it, are we? Humans, I mean. Terminator: It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.

I received this recently: Greetings to all my colleagues, friends and family, A funny thing happened on this fine day. I got to type these s...

As of this writing the Cavs are stepping onto hoopdom's grandest stage against the heavily favored Spurs. What's so remarkable is t...

As a kid I had a skateboard, but we never screwed around with them in creative ways like the legendary Dogtown boys clear on the other side ...

Only a few months ago I wrote about the new trinity which is inclusive of sustainable practices and green technology feeding into and sup...

As a young person I was always searching. Knowledge, beauty, the mad Freudian drive for sex... in that sense I was certainly like the billi...

...white guys. Yup. Basically, the following WSJ article (courtesy of a poster on the AA Drama list) shows how crazy the diversity/outreach ...

By chance I came across a postcard for Nikolaus Geyrhalter's, OUR DAILY BREAD , which I saw a year ago at the LA Film Fest. Don'...

Aside from Noguchi, Ruth Asawa is one of the few APA artists that stands as someone who could compete on a mini-major level. Little known o...

Toussaint wrote about the Ali quote I posted yesterday. On 4/25/07, Toussaint wrote: Our generation cared more. Yeah, we did get high and wa...

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-call...

Read three books this month: Steven Levitt's (with Stephen Dubner) "Freakonomics," "iWoz," the eponymous autobio by ...

Ironically, it's not as hard to read good players as it is to read a bunch of incompetents. -Sklansky If they don't know what they...

Those who know me know that I like poker. I've been playing since I was a kid when I'd hang around watching my uncles play stud - l...

Those of you who don't speak Hoopanese, I apologize, but I'm gonna talk a bit - just for a bit - as the second round of my favorite ...

Because of its charm and guise as a "comedy" - as satire or black comedy, depending upon who's commenting -  Little Miss Su...