The food bracket has returned…with ice-cream flavors.   What better way to wind summer down than with an out-and-out brawl at the freezer case?   Keckler and I can’t think of one.
The main tourney-update page …

…some of which require the bulk of said century to get to the point.[rimshot]Seriously, though: many of the stories faff around for two or three pages explaining how the protagonist had come to marry a …

BSD dropped me an email about Bernie Mac’s death about an hour ago; the Sun-Times had it, but none of the other news orgs were confirming it, so we were on the phone together looking …

The duck-and-cover thing still shocks me a little bit. I’ve seen it before, of course — that footage is a staple now, used to point up the naiveté of the fifties or the sheep-like qualities …

The design of your tube is super-cute, but you don’t moisturize my lips, at all; you don’t give them any noticeable color; I don’t use you on my cheeks.   It’s nice of Stila to …

A much better movie than I’d expected — I’d kind of anticipated something more precious, or that it would go for a quirkier, funnier tone, and it’s so much better for not having done that.
It’s …

Warning: Contains spoilers.
I can’t figure out why I like the Bale Batmans so much (foxy Bale himself aside). Both movies lean heavily on storytelling maneuvers that I tend to hate, and both movies arrived in …

Friend of TN Karen tipped me to the nifty music of Schocholautte, which took me a while to get around to listening to (and even longer to spell correctly).The band has a Hives-y sound, and …

I forget where I read the article that referred me to the book, but it went straight onto my Amazon wish list — I mean, what a crazy story. A Times reporter gets bounced from …

Vegas is one of those topics (others include sex and music reviews) that requires as even a writing tone as possible — the less tone of any kind, the better, in fact, because it’s already …