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Devil’s Brew

In an effort to ruin terrible parties forever, some San Francisco asshole is sucking the life out of Sparks. From the press release: "A recently published study found that college students who mix alcohol ...
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Peep Show

I appreciate the thoughtfulness of the organization Porn for the Blind providing a service to those who can't enjoy all the hot, free Internet porn that is out there. This isn't a hoax. The non-profit organiza...
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_Music: I-LXXXIV_

This winter, Pressed Wafer Press will publish the second, long-awaited prose collection by poet-delinquent August Kleinzhaler, a selection of music reviews written for the San Diego Reader. Known for maligning ...
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Colby Bird

Colby Bird's photographs and sculptures (featuring crack pipes, airplane alcohol bottles, and cocaine-smooth surfaces) lay bare a fascination with drug overindulgence and a kind of middleclass ostentation that ...
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Actress Melissa Leo

Between the red hair and heartbreaking stare, you know you've seen Melissa Leo before, but you're not quite sure where. Mabe her performance in 21 Grams? (Called "as good as it gets" by Manohla Dargis.) Was tha...
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Waste Management

Newspaper and cardboard can be recycled, but toilet paper cannot. In an average lifetime, a single human being will flush 4,249 rolls of paper down the toilet—and that doesn't take into account the four layers ...
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Tis the Season to…See Holocaust Movies?

Check out New York Magazine's chart, which tells you which of the four Holocaust movies currently out in theaters is right for you. The piece's text is followed by aflow chart, whichhelps to guide you in your d...
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What Would Moses Do?

Jake Weisman, a senior studying film at Columbia College of Chicago wants you to see his interpretation of a conversation between God and Moses. It's no Ten Commandments and it won't win any awards, but it's ...
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Dial “F” for Funny

It was bound to happen. Now you don't even have to enter the comedy club or turn on the TV to get some funny. The LOLs & OMGs! will B Twittered 2 u. Can't prom it'll b LOL, but there b no, long jokes cuz ea...
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Sales of _Merchant of Venice_ Spike

Another shifty Jew in the spotlight. My grandparents used to feel nothing but shame when something like this happened, but I just want to sock it to Bernie Madoff right in the shnoz! ...
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Night of the Living Nazis

If you believe that "the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi," then have we got the movie for you: Dead Snow, a Norwegian SS zombie frightfest, which will appear at Sundance in January. The film revolves around a gr...
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Nerdcore

Do you ever see those Dungeons and Dragons guys and worry they don't have enough healthy outlets for fun, as you foreshadow another Columbine? Or wonder if your teenage brother has even noticed the opposite sex...