Clips

LIVE CONCERT REVIEWS

Beyoncé

Bob Dylan

Keith Urban

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Radiohead

Tegan and Sara

Prince

Arcade Fire

Riot Fest/The Replacements

A-ha

Dead Man’s Bones/Ryan Gosling

Depeche Mode

Echo and the Bunnymen

The Flaming Lips

Guided by Voices

LCD Soundsystem

Modest Mouse

Muse

Pavement

The Rapture

Sufjan Stevens

Sunny Day Real Estate

Vampire Weekend

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Yo La Tengo

BAND INTERVIEWS

Aimee Mann

Phoenix

Belle and Sebastian

Psalm One

Leggy

Regina Spektor

Ryan Bingham

The Civil Wars

Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Chillwave

St. Vincent

FILM/TV

1985: The last great year in film for kids and young adults

Rob Lowe

Nick Offerman

Efren Ramirez (Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite)

The oral history of Phat Beach

1999: The last great year in movies

10 most authentic Chicago movies

Beverly Hills Cop

Bigfoot movies

Robert Downey Jr. comedies

Drunk uncle

High Fidelity

Roger Corman

Fight Club

Peter Mehlman

Say Anything

Miles Teller

Savage Steve Holland/Better Off Dead

Bob Saget

LA 92 director interview

12 facts about Abbott Elementary

12 facts about Better Off Dead

12 facts about Desperately Seeking Susan

17 facts about Empire Records

25 facts about Lethal Weapon

15 facts about Suits

Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner

Leslie Dixon, Overboard (1987) screenwriter

Doug Liman on Swingers

Catalina Sandino Moreno on The Affair 

Jason Patric

Paul Rudnick, In & Out screenwriter

Robin Schiff, Romy and Michele screenwriter

Penelope Spheeris on Wayne’s World

Robert Townsend on Hollywood Shuffle

FOOD, DRINK, AND TRAVEL

Beer cheese trail, Kentucky

Carmel, Indiana

Nebraska beer

Portland, Oregon’s coffee scene

Buffets in The Florida Project

Junk food in Glow

Mexican food in Gentefied

Russian food in The Americans

Voices In Food: Bryan Ford

Voices In Food: Jenny Nguyen/The Sports Bra

Voices In Food: Thuy Pham

Voices In Food: Dana Rodriguez

Voices In Food: Latinx wine makers/Lydia Richards

Voices In Food: Elena Terry

Voices In Food: Dana Thompson

Voices In Food: Jose Salazar

Voices In Food: Zia Sheikh/Chefs and addiction

Coffee tipping

How to make the best sangria

Dining out rules

Dayton-style pizza

Swensons and Skyway

Northside, Cincinnati

Gluhbier

Naz Deravian Los Angeles Persian food

Shab-e Yalda

ESSAYS

Ask the Singer

Shirley Manson

My mom’s obit

Love and Sex: Conference Call

Love and Sex: On the Strip

John Hughes

SCREENPLAYS

Waxing and Waning: A Literary Journal

Fibby

The Finicky Cat

The Finicky Cat teaser trailer

Propinquity

BOOKS I’VE WRITTEN