I like to gripe about Top 40 radio, but I don't have much of a technical music vocabulary. Are there names for the vocal styles of Avril Lavigne, Taylor Swift, et al.? Recently I found myself trying to articulate the particular way that these singers deliver lines, and I quickly ended up using unsat...

Now that he’s clean and sober, Jackass prankster Steve-O is asking his fans to help him redesign his body art. The Dancing With The Stars hoffer, who admits he’s tired of some of his trademark ink, has launched an online contest for fans to exercise their creativity. “I’ve de...

People are really a lot like sheep.  Not in a necessarily bad way, like they really are like sheep.  But they do prefer to travel in herds.  That fact is pretty well represented throughout history.  If you prefer a modern reference, I give you the millions of members of social sites. Herds follo...

I decided to dub this “U2 Week” in honour of U2 releasing their new album, No Line On the Horizon, on Tuesday 3 March 2009. You probably also have heard that U2 was on Late Show with David Letterman all this week and that they even had a street in NY temporarily named “U2 Way.̶...

As promised, probably one of the funniest hours of tv ever: For non-Hulu users, TDS is here, here, and here. And if that wasn’t good enough for you, the Colbert Report spend the entire episode mocking that idiot Glenn Beck: .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url(‘http://www.comedycentra...

Over the weekend I saw the movie, Fireproof, and was pleasantly surprised. The movie had some very funny moments and the suspense scenes were very exciting, plus it had a positive message. There was no anti Catholic content and it was a movie that could be viewed with your children in the room. But,...

Filed under: Babies, Pregnancy & birth We're in the process of naming our second boy, and we don't want to end up with a name that will be at the top of the charts in ten years . How can we predict if we're picking the next Aiden or Liam?- Not one of the crowd When it comes to clothes or music, ...

As y'all know, I am inordinately fond of movies, and also of Top Five Lists and their lesser cousins, Top Ten lists and other denominations. So it was with interest that I perused this one put together by National Review, the "the 25 best conservative movies of the last 25 years," whic...

You know that event over the weekend I mentioned attending back here? It was a fund-raiser for Hand Middle School over at Gallery 701. And while a lot of folks did come up and converse with me about newspaper business, our dialogue was somewhat constrained by the fact that it was hard to talk over t...

- Barack Obama -C h a n g e.© 2009 - Ben Heine.(High resolution of this image, forprinting purposes, available here).Poll: Obama More Popular Than Jesus, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.John Lennon once claimed the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Now President Obama has evidence that he's mo...