These two older women are a perfect metaphor for the “economic crisis”, a.k.a. GD2 (Great Depression 2) CLICK HERE FOR DIRECT IPOD LINK...

I am one of very few that thinks U2 really isn’t that great, other than The Joshua Tree and a few other random songs. The fact that Rolling Stone gave the new release five stars pretty much guarantees I won’t like it. But Neko Case… ohhh Neko Case. If only you were ten years younge...

LET'S YOU AND HIM FIGHT. So apparently there's this kerfuffle in the American Philosophical Association about whether schools which require their faculty to abstain from gay sex should be allowed to advertise in the APA's job listings. There's a petition, and a counterpetition, and my name came up i...

Yeah, so... the budget passed. The legislature's 'solution' involved borrowing over a quarter of the needed money. It'll work great as long as revenues don't fall again. Which, considering the economy and the fact that the state just snatched up everyone's stimulus money with more taxes, seems prett...

“We, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race,” said average American Eric Holder, Attorney General for the Obama administration, in a speech to Justice Department employees earlier today. Holder, whose speech was meant to honor Black History Month, went...

2009 has been an overwhelmingly great year for exciting new music so far, and it seems like an unfairly disproportionate amount of it is being released via Brooklyn label Captured Tracks. In addition to releases from Dum Dum Girls, Blank Dogs, the Mayfair Set (seriously, listen to this band now), Li...

Back in the fall, cocktail blogger Matthew Rowley suggested that a good Mixology Monday theme would be “hard drinks for hard times.” Paul Clarke says he had doubts about the idea. The next available MxMo slot wasn’t available until February and by then the economic hard times might...

"Repentance alone is of no help; grace cannot be bought with repentance; it cannot in any way be bought.""If His churches and priests were like Christ Himself, there would be no need of poets."-Hermann HesseSo speaking of religion, here's a......

Filed under: In Sixty Seconds Normand Laprise urges cooks to not ignore the truffle in hard times -- suggesting how far an ounce can go -- from flavoring your in-shell eggs, to truffle ice cream (recipe included), scrambled eggs, risotto, and bread with a truffle center. February is the perfect time...

Look, I know Idolator used to be owned by Gawker. But if we really were the Gawker of the music industry, you would have seen so much coverage of Clive Davis' Grammy party. You would hear where it was, who was playing, who was invited, who wasn't invited, who sat next to who, and how you could crash...