A month ago, in large part because of the sports-to-TV time ratio of the Olympics clocking in at about one-to-five, I took a break from...

There are vases with less filler than NBC's prime time Olympic coverage, so I've managed to read three novels this week during the 50...

Sunday ended thus: I ordered spaghetti carbonara at a local Italian place. Noodles, eggs, bacon, onion, maybe another ingredient or two....

For a fantasy-adventure project, House of the Dragon is oddly tethered to a notion that the story should play out in people's houses....

This defense of the Jews "speech" supposedly given at the UN by a "Miriam Novak" that's been making the rounds in the Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd:...

It’s difficult to tell whether this is an ad for Temu’s portable Capitalist Running Dog Reeducation Canopy or an ad for Temu’s production...

Meta doesn't need any help defending itself, but there's a whiff of can't-win-for-losing in the latest Wall Street Journal stemwinder...

Imagine getting a job recommendation for a seemingly qualified candidate where 60 percent of the letter is devoted to how little the...

It's a bit difficult to get bent out of shape over this since the only dialogue people want to hear in a Godzilla flick is "oh no - here...

Hats off to all involved in the Lakers six-year, $70 million offer to Dan Hurley, which was rejected. Lakers president and controlling...

Stories that take a life of their own usually are the product of journalistic innovation rather than the natural flow of events. (An...

You can either read Justin Chang's review of Megalopolis in The New Yorker - chockablock with praise along the lines of "a laborious but...

A dispiriting trend, which I imagine is about 10 or 15 years old, is the insistence by archaeologists that their field work have a...

It's too long and it's a little too serious, but Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ain't half bad! Unlike superhero flicks, which are a...

There's plenty of caterwauling over this story about UCLA medical school's plunging reputation, which is attributed to a DEI takeover of...

Apropos of nothing, whenever I read about the hijinks of the high-tech world - microdosing, orgies, you know the drill - my initial...

This is a nasty piece of work: The New York Times, in excruciating detail, tells us Bobby Kennedy Jr.'s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, is...

If I could retroactively advise men on how to stay faithful to their wives, I could offer no better counsel than for them to have signed...

I don't know if this was an aberration or the vanguard of a new movement in heavy metal, but my weekly dive into SiriusXM's Liquid Metal...

Over the years the sinking feeling I've had about the owner of New Orleans' two sport franchises has coalesced into a certainty neither...