A month into the 2007-2008 TV season, there are few bright spots. Fall isn’t nearly as important as it used to be, as spring now brings major hits like 24 […]

Peter Berg is an odd creature. I first knew him as the hip, mush-mouthed Dr. Billy Kronk on Chicago Hope and the washed-up, similarly-named Terry Conklin in the underrated boxing […]

I have a love/hate relationship with sampling. It can be ingenious, recontextualizing sounds from records we know into something completely original. DJ Shadow’s “Lost And Found” used the urgent, instantly […]

Last September I made up my mind that I could only watch one show on Monday nights. Would I choose Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, the highly anticipated drama […]

Hipsters have long argued the merits of selling records out of your trunk at dive bars versus using The Man’s money to finance and distribute subversive anti-materialist rants. The recent […]

I’ve watched Conan O’Brien nearly every night since I was 13 years old. Obviously, I keep late hours. Though it has had its ups and downs, Conan’s show is perhaps […]

Back in my day, all the indie rock bands wanted to sound like Sonic Youth. The self-consciously silly lyrics, the dissonance, the one totally cool girl who plays bass… it’s […]

What’s with all the movies I like flopping? Is my endorsement a kiss of death? I was disappointed but unsurprised by the commercial failure of Zodiac, a brilliant film that […]

Lost is the best TV show ever. I say this with certainty, the same way I would say “the sky is blue” or “Nickelback sucks” (oh, by the way, there […]

I didn’t want to talk about movies this week, honest I didn’t, but the Oscars inspired me to make one last statement before I bid 2006 cinema adieu. An even […]