Your U.S. elitist Senators selfishly voted today to destroy job opportunities for U.S. citizens and legal immigrants. In a surprise move, Sen. Patrick Leahy motioned to table Sen. Sessions’ E-Verify Amendment, and the motion passed by a narrow margin, 50-47. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Amendm...

Mustachioed and graying, dressed in the uniform of a full-time job he once had, Gonzalo Garcia is out in front of The Home Depot on Lake Worth Road most mornings, and it doesn't take much to catch his eye A braking pickup or the wave of a driver's hand will send him and several other Hispanic day la...

24’s Kiefer Sutherland and Jake Gyllenhaal’s reported ladyfriend Reese Witherspoon were on hand at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin, Germany for a photocall event to promote their work in the upcoming new 3D animated film Monsters vs. Aliens. Here are a few photos of Kiefer and Reese from the e...

The beautiful thing about science fiction is the mystery surrounding the premise. Since the writer gets to create the world, but can’t simply create it from scratch, there’s usually an interesting adherence to reality that acts as the anchor for whatever strange creatures and new physics...

Lots of talk about Bishop Allen, Cursive, The Number Twelve Looks Like You and the new Punk Goes Pop collection. Hate to say it, but I’m not really looking forward to any of them much. A few that might get overlooked: Mirah’s new release is awesome. Portland’s repping pretty strong...

to inform your blog readers that you’ve been kidnapped by some unknown forces and made to go through some specialized brain-washing in some funkitized technological pod, which is the supposed reason for your hiatus throughout the last 1 week or so.   No people, I regret to inform you that...

A Japanese astronaut is set to perform a number of worthless experiments this month while aboard the International Space Station in an attempt to piss off taxpayers and win over schoolchildren. Koichi Wakata will perform 16 tasks chosen from 1,597 suggested by hundreds of people, from nursery school...

[Posted by David S. Cohen] It’s a happy accident for fans of comics and sci-fi pictures that Watchmen and Monsters vs. Aliens open within a few weeks of each other, because in some peculiar ways, they’re two sides of the same coin. Granted, in some ways the two movies could hardly be more differ...

There are some fantastic movies coming up in 2009, and while you never know how a movie will fare until you actually see it, I’ve picked out 16 movies that I think will knock us out with their awesomeness. See if you agree, and add your own in the comments! 1. Watchmen (March 6). “Who wa...

Well, first the good news. Peter Straub has selected "The Long Hall on the Top Floor" for Fantastic Tales: American Stories of Terror and the Uncanny, which he's editing for the Library of America. The volume is due out in October 2009. I count this, with the reprint of "In the Water Works (1889)" i...