The Circle Can Be Broken
A friend and I got to talking the other day about communities within communities, like how our little universe is basically restricted to the...
Spacey
Most musicians go through little rituals when songwriting, and most of them can't explain the madness to their methods.
Ditto for Chris Plavidal, the...
You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’
I ain't skerred to admit I'm a big fan of about as many covers of classic tunes as the classics themselves.
I'll take Manfred Mann's...
Anne Feeney
One of the reasons we learn history, teachers tell us, is so that we're not condemned to repeat it.
The songs on Anne Feeney's new...
Carrie-on Baggage
I wish the Sex and the City movie had been a musical, with our four favorite fashion plates addressing their relationship problems by bursting...
No Bones About It
TBones Mississippi Style BBQ was born in the back of owner Terry Coleman's catering truck.
Coleman and his family still do catering, but for...
Cutting the Tension with a Fork
Chow, Baby adores its friends Smiley and Mr. B., but they do have one flaw. Feature, sorry, Chow, Baby meant to say "feature": They're...
Inner Universe
God particles and dark matter may sound more like topics for theological debate than terms of science, but they're both part of a global...
Torture Porn
Having made such classic documentaries as The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War, Errol Morris looks deeper into the events at Abu...
Hebrew Hammer
In Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, the main character and his Jewish friends are huge fans of Steven Spielberg's Munich: "Every movie with Jews, we're...
