Blind dates. They’re risky, nerve-wracking and incredibly common in a society of singles anxious to hook up with Mr. or Ms. Right. But who’s to blame when a blind date goes terribly, horribly wrong? Read more...

It was, of course, too late; I was already hooked. But even as I settled in to watch, resigned to my latest addiction, the thought crossed my mind that perhaps reality television has finally gone too far. Read more...

A week from Friday, MTV Films is releasing its new film, “Better Luck Tomorrow,” which features overachieving American high schoolers who idle in their idyllic suburbia until they develop violent lives of crime. Read more...

It’s fitting that Elvis Costello and his Imposters pulled out the impassioned rocker “(What’s So Funny About) Peace, Love and Understanding” Friday night at Royce Hall, in Costello’s last series of performances as Artist-in-Partial-Residence. Read more...

Memorable moments from the 75th annual Academy Awards held March 23: “¢bull; “The Pianist’s” surprising triumph in Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay Miramax’s dual campaigning for “Chicago” and “Gangs of New York” may have split the Best Director vote for Rob Marshall and Martin Scorcese, clinching the award for the infamous Roman Polanski. Read more...

Guilt is an emotion that often feels inescapable. We may wish that our past actions had been different, but opportunities to assuage those feelings can seem hopelessly out of reach in the present. Read more...

Bending and twisting, shaking and shouting, 38-year-old actor and comedian John Leguizamo’s mother is spanking him with her chancleta (a flip-flop sandal). With a backdrop of hundreds of twinkling lights, his jerking body moves to a danceable beat. Read more...