I spent my formative years in Irvine, deep in the heart of now-famous "O.C." We used to refer to Central Orange County as "T...

Went to Hollywood Blvd.'s semi-historical venue The Knitting Factory last night to check out one of my favorite working comedians, the l...

Rapper The Game has been arrested for , get this, causing a scene in a mall and refusing to remove a Halloween mask. Seriously. How will he ...

Well, okay, the law actually hasn't won anything yet. An indictment is more an announcement - "Hey, guy, I intend to prosecute you...

Okay, it's almost Halloween, so that means it's time for long lists of cool scary movies to watch on Halloween night. Even though, ...

Okay, new Crushed by Inertia poll for you all to ignore. What's the single worst invention of all time? I have some nominees of my own.....

Many thanks to Tom Tomorrow , from whom I've shamelessly lifted this image:

Forget Plamegate. Forget Katrina. Forget Iraq. The #1 news story of 2005 is this item from the Associated Press. The headline: Suicide M...

Actor George Takei, best-known for playing Sulu on the original series of "Star Trek," came out of the closet to something called ...

According to USA Today , there has been a sudden resurgence of interest in samurai movies. That's pretty cool, but hard to believe. If...

This morning, CNN revealed that Bush will withdraw the nomination of Harriett Miers to the Supreme Court. It was a move that was pretty muc...

The one comment I hear most often from people in re: the blog here is that the reviews are too long. For some reason, people are surprisingl...

I'm not a huge fan of cliches. People who speak in cutesy little idioms all the time are some of my least favorite people. It's al...

This is it. The final list. My 10 favorite directors of all time. More or less. I'm sure, in a few years, it will change. British m...

I've been listening to a lot of new music lately. Around this time every year, record companies and indie labels begin releasing a shitl...

A while back, I was challenged by a conservative. "Why do you always refer to Republicans and right-wingers as 'scumbags' or ...

George Clooney's second film as a director, this intense docu-drama about Edward R. Murrow's fight against McCarthyism as an anchor ...