The instant that Lady Gaga emerged from the fog atop the “Fame Factory” with emerald shoulder pads the size of watermelons, I thought I had made the right decision to watch the Grammys on Sunday night.
Author Archives: Devon McReynolds
Soundbite: “Teen Dream” Beach House
The same few words are used to describe the music of Baltimore duo Beach House: dreamlike, ethereal, haunting, excellent.
As NBC ‘Tonight Show’ ditches Conan O’Brien for Jay Leno, all is not lost for beloved Coco
Have the comedy gods been crying this week, shedding El Niño tears for the departure of Conan O’Brien from “The Tonight Show”? Or have they, as Quentin Tarantino suggested on Tuesday night, been “dancing an Irish jig”?
Q&A with Allen Loeb
Allen Loeb might be the funniest lawyer ever.
Urban sprawl
On a spring day in 1982, Ivan Simon walked the length of Sunset Boulevard.
Fans accuse film of racism
At this week’s Comic-Con International in San Diego, there will be more than just fictionalized drama in the air between superheroes and villains, clashing over good, evil and the fate-of-the-world kind of stuff.
Woody Allen was justified in suing clothing retailer
I’m a big fan of his and have always thought that a lot of the things Woody Allen does are figuratively worth about a million bucks. But last week, the filmmaker/actor/professional self-deprecator settled a lawsuit with American Apparel for the sum of $5 million dollars. That money could get you over 166,000 pairs of AA leggings or a crummy studio apartment on the Upper West Side.