By Jeremy Kotin
Now being performed at the Metropolitan Opera through November 13th
Modern opera isn’t for everyone. That has been made abundantly clear to me time and time again when I seem to be one of the few left standing after three and a half hours of confused, atonal yelling in English. The older and predominant opera… Read More
By Matt Lambert
Of all the Autumnal perks, I am going to boldly declare that my favorite part of Fall is the proliferation of pumpkins and pumpkin-derived goods. For one thing, pumpkins look freaking awesome. Even before you slice a visage into their hide, the unmolested pumpkin is still such a charming-looking gourd. They look almost half-cartoonish to me, like… Read More
This weekend on Cocktail Crashers, I’m giving you a powerful (and possibly insipid) little morsel to pass along to your dinner dates: the bizarre history of a few popular salads. I’ve already had a couple of people tell me they used my last bit of trivia successfully, though it was hard to steer conversation in a way… Read More
By Chris Baily
Yup – six days until we know who the next President of the United States will be. Whether you’re just tuning in now, or if you’ve been following this thing like a sports junky, I thought it might be helpful to throw up a list of my top ten favorite political websites/blogs for use in the last… Read More
By Chris Baily
One week from today we will know who the next President of the United States will be. (knock on wood)
Holy shit.
Seven days from now, we could be waking up to one of those newspapers you keep for your kids. It’s scaring the hell out of me. I know I’m just being a stupid, snake… Read More
By Chivo
In the words of esteemed thought leader L.L. Cool J, “Conventional methods of making love kind of bore me.” Amen, Cool James.
Like so many of us, I was past puberty when the internet began blossoming. My first email address came freshman year of college. Approximately twenty minutes after creating my Hotmail account, I was frantically searching… Read More
By Peter Brauer
10. John McCain. He is one major reason he is not being elected. No need to elaborate.
9. The North Vietnamese. Whatever his torturers did to make him move like Frankenstein ruined his TV presence for all future debates.
8. Global warming. This proven scientific reality has been long denied by his party, and it makes him… Read More
So here’s the thing about Literature. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad. And sometimes the really good is bad, but only because it’s so goddamn good, you can barely tell it’s good. I mean, you know it’s good, but you don’t like it. That’s kinda how I felt about Cormac McCarthy’s, Blood Meridian (1985) (runs and hides,… Read More
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
There are groups that will go down in history as perfect comic matchups. Broken Lizard… Tenacious D… The Kids in the Hall… Tim & Eric… the list goes on and on. One day I’ll make a top 10 for them too. However – today I wanted to focus the spotlight on The Lonely Island guys, and my Top… Read More
By Hawkes Klein
According to Newsweek it looks like someone in the crowd gave her the scarf during an autograph signinging. Brilliant.
Tomorrow marks 100 days since the BP oil spill in the gulf. I know they “successfully” capped it, but as long as that sucker is still leaking, I’m saying there is still an oil spill. But this disaster got me thinking a lot about the good old days of folk – when popular music regularly included anthems… Read More
When I was in my formative high school days, going to the Warped Tour was a highlight of the summer. Just old enough to drive, we’d pile about 9 bros and skateboards into mom-duke’s Ford Exploder and drive at high speed to Fitchburg or some other pseudo-municipality in middle Massachusetts, blasting Rage Against The Machine and… Read More
