It's about time I wrote about Mikey DelCampo, aka, Sour Shoes, a Stern misfit. Unlike the Wack Pack, SS is talented and has a sense of ...

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. -T.S. Eliot I've just watched Naomi Klein on her Charlie Rose book flacking tour, and I must...

Beware of those in whom the urge to punish is powerful. -Goethe Zero Degrees of Separation looks at the Middle East conflict and the Palesti...

Two more screenings: CWW was Monday with Aaron Sorkin guesting, ST was tonight, John Logan guesting. While I'm all for ignorant Amerika...

Well, this is the "Academy rush" and the screenings are piling up. So, Fish and I saw a screening of The Kite Runner Wednesday, ...

Short one here on Nuno - saw an exhibit on them and was impressed. In a documentary on the company, it showed the meticulous, artisanly ap...

One of the fortunate things about living in LA is that if you're into movies, this is the place. Well, truth be told, les enfants de la...

I forgot to mention I went to this thing . Kucinich, Hilary and John Edwards showed up out of all the candidates on both sides of the aisle...

Something that I think is important to be inculcating our young folks with are the ramifications of our actions as consumers. While certain...

Nova, the long-running PBS series, is running Judgement Day , a fantastic doc on the controversial Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District ...

I was going to write about Frank Darabont's film of King's The Mist , but it just got trumped for the lead. I saw the front bumper ...

With all of the bluster about the way "new media" is changing the info landscape, the real challenges to the old guard seem to be ...

Here's an example of a readymade I found that I did while in school. I remember the circumstances: It was a class on China's trans...

Sundance Channel's been spamming about their "Iconoclasts" series which is in its third season. I'm catching the beginnin...

Like so many events throughout America’s past, the story of the Camden 28 has virtually been forgotten. Today, two filmmakers, Anthony Giacc...

First and foremost, it was a great betrayal of national security. -Joseph Wilson on his wife's treasonous out-ing by Cheney, Rove, Libby...

This past weekend was the 9th Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival, and I can say unequivocally that this was the most fun I've had in the l...

I like JIm Jarmusch. I think his Stranger Than Paradise is brilliant; it's in my top 15 desert island films. Alongside STP, I have to...

Most progressive economists can see through the smoke and mirrors bilking that is the ponzi/pyramid-scheme American economy. Many moons ago...

Unlike most, I love Scorsese's, "New York, New York." In it, Liza Sings a very good version of this tune, one of my favorite ...