Hedeby Island, Sweden. Henrik Vanger, the venerable head of the powerful Vanger dynasty, opens a parcel from Hong Kong. The contents, a neatly pressed flower, floor the old man as surely as if a...
I’ve heard a lot about "Up In The Air," partially because it was just Oscar season, and partially because reviewers across the country have written about it as excessively as sports writers wrote...
Boston Harbour Islands, 1954. Music, dreadful and foreboding, starts up like impending doom. A ferry is lashed by slate grey weather, the opening bars of an orchestral hurricane to come. Puking his...
Come back home to the refinery/Hiring man says, "Son if it was up to me"/I go down to see the V.A. man/He said "Son don't you understand" FOX News host Glenn Beck has set himself up as a sort of...
Iraq 2003. The “shock and awe” party is in full effect, tracer fire lights up the night sky and concussion blasts from “smart” bombs shake gilded masonry into the lap of the movie theatre....
Howard Stern, in case you needed reminding, is the highest paid American radio personality & the ultimate media shock jock. On Monday, on his Sirius XM program with co-host Robin Quivers, he had...
Driving home from work this evening, I head the news that Corey Haim was dead. I guessed it was a drug overdose, but I didn’t guess how I would feel. Gutted. Stupid, I know, considering I’ve...
At the start of yet another American tour, Kirsty Evans had a chance to catch up with Arch Enemy vocalist Angela Gossow, one of the most ass-kicking women in metal. Having recently participated in an...
On February 26th, Michael Bryan, the eighteen year old son of Marie Osmond, leapt to his death. The Osmond family has asked for prayers of support in this extremely difficult time. According to ET...
Isn’t it funny, that when it comes to the end of the world, we’ll buy monsters, zombies and aliens as the harbingers of Apocalypse, but we won't give the man (or woman) upstairs the time of day...
