New Visual Kei singer Kanon Wakeshima has a lot going on right now. Plucked from obscurity as the result of an impressive Sony audition tape by Visual Kei and Gothic Lolita icon Mana, she already has...
If someone was unfamiliar with the demographics of the United States and watched an evening of television, they would be likely to believe that no overweight people actually exist within the nation's...
Lyndon Johnson famously said, after Walter Cronkite's criticism on air of his adventures in Vietnam, “If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America.” Soon after, Johnson announced that he would...
The previous installment of the Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) retrospective discusses "The Killing." Released in the same year as "Goldfinger," Kubrick’s satire on nuclear Armageddon could be a Bond...
My lifelong confusion surrounding language and culture often surfaces without warning. In moments like these, I confront one of the most private shames I carried into adulthood: despite having a...
It's beginning to look like a possibility that Americans may actually see health care reform happen in this administration, and maybe even this year. Having lived through the abortive attempt in the...
CNN has aired the final part of its new four-hour documentary, Black in America II. Out of all the Black in America segments, this one was the most incoherent. It seemed as though the network was...
Wonder woman has nothing to do. Sat on her back porch with her underwear still on the outside and a beer in her hand, she knows: Metropolis is fine. The Riddler’s dead. All the vampires exploded...
In Spies: The Rise and Fall of The KGB in America, historians John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr teamed up with former KGB member and journalist Alexander Vassiliev to illustrate the phenomenon of...
Last year, CNN presented a four hour documentary by Soledad O’Brien entitled Black in America. The first part was called The Black Man and the second part was the Black Women and the Family. Much...
