The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

I recently watched Empire of Dust, the 2011 documentary about Chinese development in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Perhaps you, like m...

I recently saw the musical 'Hamilton', which was an enjoyable depiction of American nostalgia for its own myths. That much isn't...

Baaaaa. Why do you do the things you do? If you're ever in some trendy cocktail lounge or bar, chances are you'll see some...

AL sent me a link to this story about how Jessica Kerr, lately a model for Victoria’s secret, was apparently punted from said job after sa...

They made a movie called Don John? At last! Someone else read the Chesterton poem and thought it was as awesome as I did, and wanted to mak...

Like the tobacco industry, you need not want to purchase a product to respect a well-constructed business strategy. Consider the example o...

A fairly robust fact about celebrities is that they tend to date and/or marry other celebrities. The most obvious explanation for this is ...

If you're ever with a Limo driver, I recommend asking them to tell you about some of the celebrities they've driven around. I was wi...

Via Jason Kottke , apparently one of Stefani Germanotta's co-workers shot a bunch of photos of her in 2005 in her apartment. Not long af...

The whole furore (mercifully dying down now) over Whitney Houston’s death gave me cause to reflect on the odd way that the average person of...

Cee-Lo Green from the Superbowl Half Time Show: 'Future Dudes', from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. The other Cee-...