I’m hardly the first person to observe this phenomenon, but what the hell: the iTunes shuffle-songs feature knows what I’m thinking. It can sense my moods; it can tell what’s going on in my life. …

Flipping through the digital-cable programming guide, trying to find something to tidy up the apartment by, I settled on VH-1 Classic, the existence of which I had utterly forgotten despite various friends of mine extolling …

Many’s the time I’ve been mistaken
And many times confused
We’ve told our stories of that day a hundred times, a thousand times: where we were, what we did, with whom, how. It’s not rehearsed; it’s just …

Mr. Sobell turned in a recap of a Miami Vice episode recently, and as I edited it, I went in my mind back to that wonderful time in our culture when Don Johnson went sprinting …

Come here, chorus of De La Soul‘s “Potholes In My Lawn,” into the chorus of which I can fit the words “cat barf in my shoe” perfectly, and thank the Lord, because apparently there’s no …

At a cocktail party last week, a guy told me that, actually, it’s not just you — the onslaught of Christmasiana did start early this year. Usually, it just seems like the tinselly retail-driven barrage …

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – The Federal Communications Commission has confirmed it received complaints about the uncensored broadcast of Oscar-winning war movie “Saving Private Ryan” on ABC-affiliated stations last week.An FCC official said several complaints …

In my nearly thirty years on earth, I’ve gone to just about every possible kind of show, in just about every possible category of venue. I’ve seen Madonna at Madison Square Garden, I’ve seen honky-tonk …

It’s year-in-review time in the publishing world, the hallowed season during which print journalists forgo researching and developing actual features in favor of throwing together lists of The Stories That Touched Our Hearts, thereby freeing …

In college, we spent a lot of time on the theoretical. Part of that derived from our classes — although, if I recall correctly, I greeted my PHI 101 preceptor’s question about the possibility that …