August in August
In Woody Allen’s 1979 film Manhattan, his character says, “When it comes to relationships with women, I’m the winner of the August Strindberg Award.”
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Torture of the Powerless
“People on death row have better medical treatment than these women. After all, they want to keep the death row inmates alive and...
Word-o-Rama
Chow, Baby learned a new word! Mutabel (aka moutabel, muttabel) is a roasted-eggplant dip that's a lot like baba ghannouj, except creamier, spicier, and...
Velveteen Rabbit
The Night Listener has a great story, so great that it indirectly causes the movie’s downfall. It’s based on an Armistead Maupin novel, which...
NASCAR Gags
We’ve seen great movies about baseball, football, basketball, even soccer and golf. But we’ve never seen one about auto racing (Days of Thunder doesn’t...
Eat Here, Get Gas
This is what Chow, Baby gets for trying to be efficient. Having recently gotten the Chowbabymobile's a/c recharged, Chow, Baby spent last week's heat...
Orange Crush
A while back, Thanh Thanh Vietnamese Cuisine relocated across East Arkansas Lane from one strip mall to another. They carpeted the new, spacious locale...
Trippy Dick
Back in his heyday some 30 years ago, pulp author Philip K. Dick was the literary equivalent of a paranoid nut-job. Some of his...
Gassed to Death
Chris Paine’s documentary asks Who Killed the Electric Car? I thought we knew. It was that secret society that Homer Simpson was trying to...
Bringing Heat
Few tv shows are cool. Even fewer manage to define cool. But Miami Vice did when it debuted back in 1984. The show didn’t...
