music
Asia on DirecTV

DVR alert: The original lineup of Asia performs in concert in a broadcast on DirecTV tonig...

journalism
Journolist Scandal Documents Rampant Media Bias

By Ben Domenech The blockbuster series of Daily Caller reports on the Journolist—culled...

manners-and-morals
Professor Fired for Teaching Catholic Belief in a Catholic Class

By Daniel Crandall Here's yet another case of reality intruding where only the satirica...

manners-and-morals
Kathy Griffin Reaches New Low, Boycott Suggested

The professional snotty bore and antinomian terror Kathy Griffin, who bills herself as a c...

manners-and-morals
Woods Shows Good Character in Spontaneous Gesture

A classy gesture by Tiger Woods at the British Open in St. Andrews, Scotland: Woods steps ...

manners-and-morals
Jackson: LeBron Treated Like ‘Runaway Slave’

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the nation's foremost professional race-card player, said billiona...

books
Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Attacked, Defended

Author Harper Lee and her groundbreaking novel To Kill a Mockingbird have received a well-...

people
Can Being a ‘Global Warming Denier’ Make You an Enemy of the State? Frank Tipler Says Yes

Frank Tipler, a cosmologist, and Freeman Dyson, a polymath, are among those credentiale...

books
Stephen King Strikes Out with ‘Blockade Billy’

Baseball inspires great stories. W. P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe and Bernard Malamud’s T...

music
Musician Shawn Phillips on U.S. Tour

The brilliant folk-rock singer and songwriter Shawn Phillips is on a U.S. tour. See him if...

manners-and-morals
Another Gibson Tirade Claimed

Mel Gibson has reportedly been caught in another profanity-laced tirade which included vil...

movies
The Aaron Hendra Project Meets The Machine Gun Preacher

Turn any corner, especially in Hollywood, and you'll find stories about artists struggling...

journalism
WaPo ‘Conservative’ Blogger Dumped

The Washington Post's phony house conservative has resigned under fire. Good bloody riddan...

commerce
Traditional and Christian Themes Dominate U.S. Cinema Ticket Sales

It was a solid weekend for traditional-themed movies at the U.S box office. The entertain...

culture101
Appreciating Robert Bresson: ‘Seemingly Simple but with Mystery at the Heart of It’

Shmuel Ben-Gad commemorates filmmaker Robert Bresson, one of the greats. “But I firmly b...

journalism
Lynch ‘Marries’, USA Today Reports

From our ever-expanding Transvaluation of All Values file: actress Jane Lynch has gotten m...

music
Emerson-Lake Praised

Keith Emerson and Greg Lake of the great progressive rock band Emerson, Lake, and Palmer r...

music
Steve Kilbey’s Intimate Musical Diary

Let me tell you a little bit about Steve Kilbey... A long, long time ago--in the late 1...

people
Ray Fisher: American Martial Artist

Note: This is an excerpt from a larger work-in-progress. The sound of training fills th...

art
Frank Frazetta, 1928-2010

He was an artist, not an author, but I suspect he was responsible for more fantasy book...

movies
Selleck TV Movie Wins Night’s Ratings Race

Tom Selleck still draws a crowd. His mystery-detective movie Jesse Stone: No Remorse was ...

journalism
Maher Smacked Down on ABC

HBO's Bill Maher was exposed as the ignorant ass he is on an ABC political talk show. Amu...

music
Robert Plant: Acting His Age

If there were a Class of 1971 Rock 'n' Roll Yearbook, I'd bet good money that Robert Plant...

people
Anthony Flew: Philosopher of Science Who Accepted Theism

Although his name was no household word, the philosopher Antony Flew, who died recently ...

movies
A Convenient Deceit

In commemoration of Earth Day, here is my analysis of the Academy Award-winning Al Gore mo...

books
George H. Scithers, 1929-2010

I got word today that the first editor to buy one of my stories professionally, and my ag...

manners-and-morals
Lady Gaga Goes It Alone

I'm not sure that we need to know this, and I am well aware that not too long ago such a...

manners-and-morals
Woods Criticized for Televised Outbursts of Foul Language

Is it acceptable to be tired of Tiger Woods? I certainly am. I watched some of Sunday's M...

journalism
‘Story of Stuff’ Is Outrageous Classroom Propaganda

The brilliant documentary filmmaker Ann McElhinney (Mine Your Own Business; Not Evil, Ju...

genres
Cultural Kommisar Attacks Filmmaker Reitman

One indicator of how far statism has progressed in American society and culture is the t...

movies
John Forsythe, Class Actor

Actor John Forsythe died on Friday at the age of 92. Story here. He had real screen charm,...

manners-and-morals
‘I Am Proud to Be a Heterosexual Man’

I am proud to be a heterosexual man. This is something worth celebrating. Allowing myself...

culture101
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, doing his acclaimed step dance in 1932, back when dancing was s...