Everybody hates Megalopolis, except the people who like it, and they somehow make it seem worse than the people who hate it; e.g.,...

One of 17,000 web-based phenomena currently in vogue is computer reconstructions of the faces of historical figures. No longer do folks...

Reuters shares this dispatch from Cannes and its "strange mood." While there's nothing to get into a twist over, one wonders why two...

It's a tenet of public relations as currently constituted to "get ahead" of embarrassing personal information by releasing it yourself...

Though I can't speak for the world, at least I'd be grateful if a few UFO/Bigfoot obsessives would devote their energy explaining to me...

Anthony Trollope seems to have donned his Stetson and pistols while writing this OK Corral-ish passage! (From his novel Can You Forgive...

There are three problems with the relentlessly awful 3 Body Problem, all of which seem endemic in television and film. Problem one: There...

One journalistic anachronism in need of reform - I say reform because the other option is elimination - is the long-form profile. As...

Let's get this out of the way... I liked the Allmans for both personal and musical reasons. Personal: they were the soundtrack for...

Right about here is where I'd use a metaphor such as throwing a pebble into a pond and watching the ripples flow outward to describe how...

Axios, never asked, but FTW: My proposal: white people get "Saltine."

Here's an odd one: a reporter for Business Insider seems to have never met a young man until recently. America's young men are blowing...

Johnny Depp's either straightened out his financial woes or he's still a spendthrift, for the Fourth Estate says he's got his eyes on...

I don't know shit about bonobos, but I know bullshit when I see it! Not that anyone's losing sleep over it, but the idea bonobos - which...

For all of you geezers who thought a film or television adaptation of a novel is an abridgement of the novel, I leave you with the fact...

The most fecund beat in journalism is writing obits for journalism and the past month has provided plenty of fertilizer – layoffs at the...