Appropriation . After "exploitation" it's the word that so aptly conveys the depth and breadth of white culture over and into...

I always tell my daughter that the baby boomers were goofy, but they did some cool shit. They consistently got up off their asses and said ...

Like any other form of art, what passes for the most part as poetry is garbage. But I recall as if yesterday my discovery of Robert Desnos...

It is important that you risk trying things that you might not be very good at. It is important that you discover that failure is never fina...

What IS it about our twisted American culture that produces outliers that make foreign psychopaths drool? Of course there are sickos every...

When people, particularly the tragically hip, discuss surrealism, it's always in the vein of the fantastical, "way out" imager...

The LA Archdiocese settled a record case of molestation; $660 mil. Thoughts & tidbits: -I love legal parlance that, in one word - "...

I snapped this earlier this year while driving westbound on the 10 heading out of the city back to the westside. It was impressive. To get ...

How did he do it? -Phil Ramone upon hearing Les Paul for the first time Here's what I look for in artists of any stripe and people in ...

Say what you will about Moore, but he's got big brass bowling ball sized nuts. With Sicko , he's crafted an in-your-face indictment...

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...