Grief In Greenness: Two Melancholy Poems Of Spring
Springtime is the season of renewal, but it can also be a season of ambivalence. After all, for something to be made new and fresh, it first has to have gotten old and worn. Perhaps this is why some of...
View ArticleJason Segel: Creating Comedy With The Tone Of Life
More and more, audiences are getting to know Jason Segel. After featured roles in Judd Apatow projects like Freaks and Geeks and Knocked Up, Segel has gone on to star in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and...
View ArticleRegional Weekend Roundup
The sunny, hot weather drew big crowds of winter-weary residents to a number of outdoor activities around the Inland Empire this weekend.
View ArticleVeep: A New Take on Politics
Julia Louis-Dreyfus knows it must seem like she's "arrived," as NPR's Rachel Martin says during their discussion on Sunday's Weekend Edition. She's well-known from Seinfeld, of course, but she's also...
View ArticlePolly Frost: She MIGHT be near you soon!
I was first able to interview Polly Frost for her one-woman show, "How to Survive Your Adult Relationship With Your Family" at The Canyon Crest Winery in Riverside. Before she contacted me - I must...
View ArticleThe Doctor Is In - A Conversation With Hugh Laurie
For the past eight seasons, actor Hugh Laurie has played Dr. Gregory House on the Fox medical series House. House is brash, narcissistic, unsympathetic, addicted to painkillers, confrontational — and...
View Article'Scream' Still Echoes After More Than A Century
It's perhaps the most reproduced piece of art ever created. It has adorned key chains and coffee mugs, and the cover of Time magazine. Andy Warhol used it, and now one of the four versions of The...
View ArticleAdam Yauch - RIP MCA
"Hey. One of The Beastie Boys just died."This is what I was told as I walked into work, debating whether to turn on my computer or go say hi to everyone while on the way to pretending to check my mailbox.
View ArticleLena Dunham Addresses Criticism Aimed At 'Girls'
Lena Dunham was just 23 years old when her second feature film, Tiny Furniture, won the best narrative feature prize at the South by Southwest Film Festival. The movie's success led to Dunham striking...
View ArticleThe World of Kristin Korb
This… is a reflection going back almost exactly four years. I had been inspired to actually put down on paper, some feelings about recent events. A couple Thursdays prior, I witnessed some religious...
View ArticleSendak's Legacy: Helping Kids 'Survive Childhood'
When author and illustrator Maurice Sendak entered the world of children's books, it was a very safe place. Stories were sweet and simple and set in a world without disorder. But Sendak, who died...
View ArticleOn 'Mad Men,' Beatles Tune Misses The Mark
Don Draper sure has a lot of power for a fictional character. At the end of this week's episode of Mad Men, Don dropped the needle on that copy of Revolver ("start with this," his wife Megan said as...
View ArticleThe Dictator Rules With A Satirist's Fist
Many fans will be disappointed that Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator is a more or less conventional comedy and not an ambush-interview mockumentary in the style of Borat and Bruno. But that...
View ArticleDonna Summer, The Queen Of Disco, Dies At 63
Donna Summer, the queen of disco whose career spanned four decades and earned her multiple number one hits and five Grammy awards, has died after a long battle with cancer, TMZ and E-online and the AP...
View ArticleYour New 'American Idol' Is (Surprise!) A Laid-Back Dude With An Acoustic Guitar
Being named "Phillip Phillips" kind of makes Phillip Phillips sound like he was created like a Cabbage Patch Kid, and after his manufacture, someone said, "What should we call him?" And somebody else...
View ArticleClean Your Grill, And Other Hot Holiday Tips From Food Network's Alton Brown
If there's one grilling tip to remember this Memorial Day weekend, it should be this: Flame is bad.
View ArticleAllen Fiddling Again With Familiar Ideas
Woody Allen's slack new movie, To Rome with Love, comes fortified with a fine bit of nonsense involving a shower, a loofah and a nervous Italian tenor who's terrified of performing in public.
View ArticleLessons For Europe From 'The Second World War'
For most people, the start of World War II means German soldiers marching into Poland. Historian Antony Beevor begins and ends his new book, The Second World War with something different: the story of...
View ArticleAndy Griffith Dies, Was TV's Sheriff Taylor And Matlock
Andy Griffith, who played the wise sheriff of Mayberry, N.C., in one of American television's most beloved situation comedies, has died, according to a family friend and a real-life sheriff in North...
View ArticleCoachella Fest Moving?
The Coachella Valley city of Indio is trying to repair its relationship with the producers of the world-famous Coachella Music and Arts Festival, after Coachella’s promoters threatened to move its...
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