Rosie O'Donnell

How to Speak Republican: Decoding the GOP

Cable TV Programmers Make Bait-and-Switch a High Art

Drunken yoga does not equal female empowerment. Show of hands: Who remembers when cable TV's A&E channel featured real art for entertainment? Been a long time, right? Back in the 1990s, the Arts & Entertainment channel, as it was known then, specialized in high-culture programming. Ballet. Opera. ... More >>

Thanksgiving Rules for the 21st Century

Oh, Thanksgiving. The holiday that recognizes that the only way we can stand to be around family is to emotionally eat ourselves into a tryptophan-induced state of apathy. Boundaries are pushed. Feelings are hurt. There's no clear-cut etiquette, no collective list of things that could be avoided to ... More >>

Pet Sounds

Animal psychic Sonya Fitzpatrick hears voices, the dog and cat kind.

Kitchen Dog's Tina Parker puts the shine on Charm; gods are not great at Theatre Too's Tales From Mount Olympus.

The Top 10 Couples I'd Like to See on DWTS

​Granted, it would force me to actually watch the ridiculousy cheesy show, but I'd be willing to stomach Dancing With The Stars' sequins and sass and smarminess of Tom Bergeron if only I could orchestrate whom was boogieing down with whom. Following in the "Foxtrot" footsteps of Emmitt S ... More >>

The Top 10 Bodyguards in Case of Zombie Apocalypse

Would the Bird Man make a good Wing Man?So you're having a beer at your favorite watering hole. Next thing you know, zombies. Through the door. Crashing in the windows. Falling from the ceiling. Purgatory-confined, blood-thirsty zombies. Everywhere. This hasn't happened to me in a while, but ... More >>

Food For Thought 3.02.09

"He says, 'There's a drunk club, I forget what it's called, but you have to like be really drunk to get in, I don't know if they'd let you in, but you could ask them for tips.'" (Rosie O'Donnell, explaining to Tyra Banks how her 13-year-old son convinced her to stop drinking. Seems she tried to pul ... More >>

The Top 10 Most Memorable Cowboys-Redskins Games

Chamillionaire

Ultimate Victory (Chamillitary/Universal Motown)

Sigh...

Buzz isn't buying conspiracy theories

(Definitely Not) America's Team

Batter Up

The game's the thing at Lone Star Drive-In

Miss Independent

Annie Leibovitz makes a permanent mark

American Girl

Sarah Vowell's readers don't feel so alone with Radio On

So Seuss Me

Horton sits on an egg but doesn't lay one in Seussical the Musical

Under Ogre

Shrek offers an amusing, if empty, fractured fairy tale

Dry Spell

At Piccola Italia, the only hooch is in the rigatoni.

Holidaze

Unwrapping our annual roundup of musical season's greetings--and beatings

The Doctor Is Out

A Dallas activist helps lead the charge against Dr. Laura

Live from New York?

Saturday Night Live and DreamWorks Records team up for two not-ready-for-prime-time compilations

Vine art

Disney's Tarzan still swings, but he's a bit too tame

Night & Day

May 6 - 12, 1999

Sunny day

Steady breakin'

Jeff K and Kelly Reverb put the needle on the record and dance, dance, dance

Getting fat off non-fat

A fat substitute with some unpleasant potential side effects pits junk food against junk science

Night & Day

May 21 - 27, 1998

Harriet the wuss

A classic heroine turns wimp in Harriet the Spy