Whale Wars Captain Paul Watson on Greenpeace, Whale Meat, and Why Protestors Are Pussies

No wonder I’m not rich and famous. Apparently I skipped a crucial stage of human development. On the day the dean of my master’s program handed me my diploma, my father handed me both my student loan and my car loan coupon books and informed me that now that I was an adult it was time to get a…

When I first met my current boyfriend, I knew he was a pedophile. I made this decision in the same way that you assume someone is a bouncer or a basketball player – by physicality. Not only was he 6’1” and 111.1 pounds, he had what can only be described as “The worst goatee…

I’m sitting in my grandmother’s retirement home in Denmark. It’s in a town the size of a dimple, built between asymmetrical patches of grazing fields and the small muffs of forest that fill in the seams. You could walk into the town and out the other end in ten minutes if you didn’t…

Several months ago, I met Kyle Cornforth among the basil and bitter gourds growing on the grounds of an organic cooking school in northern Thailand, where she worked as director. She, her husband and young daughter had left their Berkeley home for an enlightening—and edible—year at the…

Early Warning is a feature wherein I survey the landscape of films in development or production, and highlight the ones that are going to have to overcome ridiculously steep odds to be better than terrible.  In short, the projects you read about and mutter “This can’t be good.”

Jack and…

I read If a Tree Falls: A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard, by Jennifer Rosner, in one big gulp and loved it.  As the parent of a special needs child who required an army of early intervention specialists along with a battle plan, I loved how Rosner got so many of those details…

Why is it so weird to see Drew Barrymore and Justin Long sharing a bong and making out? And humping on the kitchen table? And having relatively explicit phone sex?

The Times reports this morning on smart retailer Nordstrom making its inventory in warehouses and in stores transparent so a buyer who’s dying for a purse can find it nearby (for immediate gratification), or from the warehouse (for convenience), or at the last store that has it (which will…

Is August 24th too late a date to introduce summer’s hottest jam? Probably. But, “early fall’s hottest jam” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it. Whatever you call it, “F**K You”, Cee-Lo’s contribution to The Ladykiller soundtrack, is sure to be a labor day dance floor beast,…

Star Wars, Episodes IV-VI are undeniably the greatest movies of all time. We all have our favorites (mine used to be Return of the Jedi, now it’s The Empire Strikes Back, both of which were made before I was even born). And now, there’s solid (albeit insane) proof that there’s a rather large…

First: Sorry this is late. For some reason, they didn’t screen “Piranha 3D” for critics in advance of its opening.

Fans of smart comedy should rejoice about the debut of IFC’s new show, Portlandia.  Fred Armisen, of SNL and intense drumming, and Carrie Brownstein, of Sleater-Kinney and NPR music blogging, have been reliably entertaining fans with their online comedy partnership, Thunderant, for a…