Dear Mom, Was reading a T.C. Boyle short in The New Yorker last Thursday at the library and started crying. It hit hard, harder than Joyce’s “Araby” even. Read more...

With just a week and a half remaining on the calendar until Oscar night, it’s time to start thinking about whom you’re going to pick in your local pool. Read more...

“Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?” It is the refrain of children restlessly sitting in the cramped backseats of station wagons during family trips. Read more...

For some, art museums can be valuable venues of cultural, historical and artistic achievement to be cherished for many generations. To others, art museums are forbidding enclaves of hoarded, ancient relics accessible only to a select group of fanatics in stuffy rooms behind thick, uninviting walls. Read more...

Man Man “Six Demon Bag” Ace Fu Records “Six Demon Bag,” the second release by psycho-group Man Man, has a sound that can probably be best understood by imagining a really, really old car. Read more...

Destroyer “Destroyer’s Rubies” Merge Records Destroyer’s Dan Bejar has been many things: erstwhile member of The New Pornographers, explosive rock guitarist, folk-pop troubadour and engrossing storyteller capable of sketching worlds of literate references and intricate characterizations. Read more...

“Street Fight” Directed by Marshall Curry Marshall Curry Productions LLC The 2002 mayoral election in Newark, N.J. was not a big concern for the average Californian, or even the average American. Read more...