There’s lots of great news on the topic of my subpoena. The first is that three legal groups have all swooped in to save me (and cvillenews.com) from myself: Public Citizen, the ACLU of Virginia, and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. Paul Levy, Rebecca Garrett,...

The Riot Grrrl scene brought feminism to alternative rock in the 90s. Fifteen years on, the aftershocks are still making waves, says Laura Barton 'From hundreds of once pink, frilly bedrooms comes the young feminist revolution," began a USA Today article of 1992, one of many that year trying to desc...

This time around, the West Seattle Weekend Lineup includes several notable events outside West Seattle boundaries that we thought you’d like to know about anyway — including “Remember This” tonight at Seattle Center, the first-ever Rat City Rummage and a beer/ice-cream tastin...

I n this last week of new posting at f/k/a, how can I possibly put together a piece that pays adequate homage to the vast body of haikai — haiku, senryu and related poetic-literary genres — that our Honored Guest Poets have allowed me to share with you?  In two words: I can’t. Beg...

Please scroll on by if this doesn't interest you. I am copying the lists we found of the books my grandmother read. I'm putting them behind a cut because she read a lot. 1970: 53 booksLovey Childs by John O'HaraSalzburg Connection by MacInnessA Fall from Aloft by BurlandA Long Row of Candles by Sulz...

By Todd VanDerWerff If Lost ’s greatest romance, the one between Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) and Penny (Sonya Walger), is all about a couple that is always connected by some sort of deeper link, even when time and space conspire to keep them apart, then the show’s other fine romance, that of Jin ...

These lists have been making their way around Facebook like crazy.  I decided to finally bite the bullet and write my own:  I can pick up clothes and small objects with my toes.  It creeps Steve out, but came in really handy when I was pregnant. I’m an Iri...

Colorado Media Matters: KOA's Caldara repeated dubious talking point that transfer payments in recovery plan "cost() jobs" Colorado Media Matters: Denver Post, KOA news anchors let Coffman promote myths and falsehoods about recovery plan Colorado Media Matters: KOA's Rosen allowed Fox News' Goldberg...

Rebecca put up "Holy Willie's Prayer" in celebration of Burns's birthday yesterday. Here's one of my favorites, which is another one of his scathing critiques of Presbyterianism as he saw it. Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous My Son, these maxims make a rule,An' lump them aye thegit...

Open Bar. Slavish appreciation of celebrity and the cult therein. The Golden Globes are not about who wins, really, but that doesn’t mean that I would ever miss an opportunity to complain about it. Watch as I discuss the television awards with a false sense of authority, write about the movie ...