Hello everyone!  Here's our update for Thursday, February 5, 2009.  Our Winter Bargain Back Issue Sale has begun .  Check out the EVENTS section to read why this is our best one yet. Voting has opened for the Valley Advocate’s 2009 Best of the Valley Poll.  We hope tha...

Hello everyone!  Here's our update for Thursday, January 29,2009.  Our Winter Bargain Back Issue Sale will start NEXT WEDNESDAY .  See the UPCOMING EVENTS section for details. We have just received a new shipment of Pocky and Ramune.  Chocolate and Blue Hawaii are back in stock! ...

Sorry to the delay in the year in review stuff. Got a little sidetracked with the coaching change. Keep in mind that I am using what happened during the season. Any of the off the field drama that happened after Nashville didn’t influence this. This portion was formerly known as the biggest disapp...

Hello everyone!  Here's our update for Thursday, January 22, 2009.  Our Winter Bargain Back Issue Sale will start in two weeks.  Check out the UPCOMING EVENTS section for details. This week we have our usual sections on NEW COMICS and Graphic Novels, recent GAMING arrivals, new postin...

Hello everyone! Here's our update for Thursday, January 15, 2009. Our Winter Bargain Back Issue Sale will start in three weeks. Check out the UPCOMING EVENTS section for details. This week we have our usual sections on NEW COMICS and Graphic Novels, recent GAMING arrivals, new postings to our eBAY &...

By Ali Arikan I think it was Lester Bangs who said listening to Pink Floyd is like wrestling with shit. Him or Spiro Agnew. Whoever it was, they were right. It’s a band I tried to like for a long time—“everyone says they’re great, so they must be�—but I have finally come to the dawning r...

I like to read… but only certain things.  Some love reading fiction and just have to read the latest bestsellers that are out.  I enjoy reading books that deal with theology, ministry, and the trends of the culture.  In 3+ days, I will be heading out to Trinidad with 38 copies o...

By Todd VanDerWerff I started out 2008 as a paid TV critic with a happily stable and sedate personal life that rarely edged into something all that exciting. After a series of corporate maneuvers seemingly designed to leave me weeping in the street early in the year and a last week of the year that ...

The Bloggies obviously you should take the time to nominate me for everything. I never make it -- they tend to only honor the blogs with millions of readers in bigger categories and they don't have a "best film blog" category -- but hope spring eternal! The Playlist Morricone not scoring Tarantino's...

The Top 10 mania that grips year-end film culture provides some of the most vulgar oversimplifications, abstractions, nonsense, critical self-regard and hype known to man. We've read the worst so you don't have to. As enumerated since 2005 at this Defamer editor's alma mater, the annual survey of To...