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Updike on the uptake
In a review of "Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism," Martin Amis wrote of John Updike:\ \ Beckett was...
Traitorous Bon Jovi!
Corner blogger Kathryn Jean Lopez is incredulous that Jersey residents aren't crying foul at Jon...
'Anarchy' on 'The Tonight Show'
Via the Volokh Conspiracy: I don't want to read too much significance into this. All I'll say is...
Timid libertarianism
To paraphrase Florence King ("If Christopher Hitchens is a Marxist, I want to be one, too"), I he...
'Magic' static
FOX News' Roger Friedman, bless him, is shaking his fists at Big Radio for not playing new music...
Arcade Fire on E Street
Bruce and Co., with Win and Regine Butler, doing Springsteen's "State Trooper" and Arcade Fire's...
Two thoughts on the culture and fatherhood
From Henry James' "The Portrait of a Lady" (1881): "He never speaks of his painting -- to people...
Bruce Bizkit
I'm not sure if the producers over at "60 Minutes" timed it deliberately, but right after Bruce S...
Rockonomics
Megan McArdle and Tyler Cowen each have interesting analyses of Radiohead's move to offer its new...
K.T. Tunstall and the 'way-back machine'
Critic Rob Sheffield puts a finger on precisely why I can't get into K.T. Tunstall:\ \ Set the wa...
Britney
If there's ever a blogospheric topic that warrants a one-word title, it'd be Britney Spears' "com...
Lunatic, here are the keys
I sure hope my 401(k) doesn't carry Sony stock, because Rick Rubin's new gig as co-head of Columb...
Unhinged suburban parenting, part pi
When I was a kid, this story would have been an Onion parody (that is, if the Onion had been foun...
Not in a Seattle state of mind
Says Central Virginian Dave Matthews of his adopted hometown of Seattle: "I will, no doubt, conti...
Fin du cinema
Of Antonioni's work, I've only seen "L'Avventura and "Blow-Up"; of Bergman's, only the "spiritual...
