Tag Archives: Video

A good, yet not as thorough as it could have been, examination of the work of Syd Barrett

I love the Olympics, and I love Team USA, but damn, if there hasn’t been some royal lame-assatry going on in Torino. Long before I married into the most obsessed and involved Olympic family in the world, I was a huge fan of the Olympics. It’s just a one-of-a-kind event, …

I recommend Syriana, with the reservation that the labor involved in trying to keep up with the multiple, often obscured, storylines might be too taxing for many viewers.

As Nickelodeon has seeped into the fabric of American childhood (and parenthood) over the last two and a half decades, the network’s annual Kids’ Choice Awards has taken on the stature of … a … really important kids’ award show … okay, a mini-Oscars. Jack Black, fresh off his obliquely …

Canadian Politics makes it to the daytime talk show circut!

I loved the first season of Arrested Development in ’03-’04; the particularity of its absurdity was sharp and richly detailed rendering its inventive satire on American values, the idle rich, the formerly idle rich, the formerly rich but still idle, and intra-family relationships telling as well as hilarious. The show …

The fifth season of American Idol is off to an astonishing start with ratings higher than ever through the audition and Hollywood rounds. Will interest continue throughout the season? Will compelling new stars emerge? Will superstar Kelly Clarkson's cooling toward the show that put her on the map — she …

Jessica Sierra, 20, made it to the finals of American Idol last season on the strength of exuberant self-confidence and a powerful country/rock voice. Though she was just the third singer voted out of the final 12, the Tampa native has had a lot more to deal with than being …

Ratchets up pressure on cable companies to offer greater pricing flexibility.

A frenetic first weekend of the XX Winter Games is complete in Torino, Italy, with the Tomato flying to halfpipe gold, a Texan with Vulcan eyebrow skaking really fast, Bode a medal bust, Italy a luge winner on its $100 million track, Norwegian cross-country skier making a miraculous last-to-second run, …