Beware Serenity spoilers ahead… Michae Ghertner at Catallarchy makes a point about the Firefly movie Serenity that had stuck in my head in the theater: At the close of the film’s climactic battle, the Operative has a last-minute conversion (saving the Serenity crew) when Mal shows him evidence that the government had dosed an entire […]

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I know it’s hard to believe, dear readers, but there are a couple of regrettable gaping lacunae in my education—chief among them, alas, visual art. Fortunately, I can outsource my responsibility for knowing exactly why Jed Perl is totally fucking wrong to sharp folk like fellow U Street denizen Kriston Capps. And you know he […]

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If you like more than your potatoes mashed up on a Thanksgiving weekend, check out this deft blend by Party Dan of Cake’s “Never There” and Gorillaz’s “Feel Good Inc.”

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You know how sometimes you’ll pick up an album (or even two) from some artist, give it a couple listens, and then forget about it for months—even years? And then, on a whim, you decide to give it another listen and can’t believe you didn’t instantly recognize how brilliant it was when you first heard […]

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Maybe two years ago, my friend Abe Sutherland popped in a tape at a friends house to show us a movie he said his brother Ben had made. I’ll confess, while I was willing to assume Abe’s extremely high intelligence ran in the family, I went in with a modicum of skepticism: Surely Abe’s high […]

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So, I’m planning to review Serenity for the Reason site, but dragged my feet long enough that I’ll be trying to squeeze in with the bloggers rather than ordinary press; mayhap I’ll see some of you there. Here’s the synopsis the PR folk are sending out to bloggers, in case you’ve been living under a […]

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There’s a marathon of Battlestar Galactica episodes (yes, the new one, not the cheesy tunics and feathered hair one) running all day on SciFi.

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I picked up The New Pornographers‘ most recent effort, Twin Cinema last week; it sounds pretty good on a preliminary few listens, though not as instantly infectious as sophomore album The Electric Version, but I haven’t had a chance yet to pay proper attention to it, since I’ve had Death Cab for Cutie‘s Plans in […]

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Yes, this is actually a real ad campaign for the priesthood:

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Noting the flap about the new Rolling Stones tune “Sweet Neo Con,” Radley Balko complains about the general paucity of good protest music coming out of the Iraq war. I expressed a similar sentiment in this Reason piece about a year back, though I did note a couple of exceptions to the general rule. One […]

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