Writer Susan Orlean Plays Not My Job
Susan Orlean, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has just written a book about the life and legend of …
Bow Bow, Chk-a-Bow: Five Voices Rise To The Top Of TV’s A Cappella Competition
American Idol is more high-profile and The X Factor is more sensationalized, but perhaps television’s most unusual singing competition is …
For Fassbender, Two Perspectives On The Perils Of Sex
The Irish actor Michael Fassbender stars in two current films that revolve around the perils of sex — which means …
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Muppets, Nostalgia, And Finding Common Ground
On this week’s Pop Culture Happy Hour, we spend some time talking about The Muppets — not just what works …
Improv Everywhere Has Done It Again! Can Anyone Do Anything About That?
Beware, fellow citizens, for there is a sinister force that lurks just underneath the surface of our quotidian lives. It …
Award-Winner Nikky Finney On Life As A Poet
Nikky Finney has dreamed of being a poet since she was a teenager. She published her first book in 1985, …
A ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ And Dark Things In Her Slumber
In Charles Perrault’s classic Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, a princess is cursed to sleep for 100 years, eventually waking to …
Lives Of Paralyzing ‘Shame,’ For Reasons Unexplained
It was frantic sex that earned Shame an NC-17 rating, but this arty drama is mostly slow and methodical. And …
‘Khodorkovsky’: In Putin’s Russia, A Tycoon’s Fall
When director Cyril Tuschi heard about the imprisonment of Mikhail Khodorkovsky on charges of tax evasion and stealing his own …
Orchestrated ‘Outrage’ Among Kitano’s Yakuza
Throughout the 1990s, in his capacity as writer-director-editor-star — and that’s not all the hyphenates for an artist who has …
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