The lack of diversity in the 2015 Oscar nominations sparked an outcry in the Twitterverse on

So, they’re at it again. In the aftermath of Ohio State’s (unexpected) victory over Oregon in the first-ever College Football Playoff Championship Game – is that what it’s called? There have been so many iterations of the college football championship it’s hard to know what’s what – students at OSU’s campus in Columbus, Ohio, were…

In November 1981, when the Rolling Stones were touring in support of their enormously successful Tattoo You album (best known for “Start Me Up” and “Waiting on a Friend”), bassist Bill Wyman talked to Rolling Stone magazine about the band’s desire to play small clubs in the midst of its worldwide stadium-rock orgy: “When we…

TWiB! Media, an independent media company, is looking for a part-time video/audio editor. This is an

Pausing between songs at his intimate, mostly acoustic November 6 show at SPACE in Evanston, Illinois, New York singer/songwriter Garland Jeffreys quipped, “So, we’re on this little tour … I call it ‘The Rest of My Life Tour’ ….” At 72 and still bringing down the house, you can’t begrudge him the hint of road-weariness…

Elon James White: If you’re in St. Louis or headed here for the Weekend of Resistance: All I have to say is rest up.

Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson released a video statement apologizing to the Brown Family and  Ferguson

As the adage goes, the good intentions of things like this are precisely what the road to hell is paved

 Over the last two weeks the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have grown in size, fury, volume. and visibility.

Last week, freelance journalist Ryan Schuessler blogged about his time in the media pit with fellow journos

A talk show host crowed out the “headline” that actress Melanie Griffith and her actor ex-husband

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I first became aware of Brittany Maynard in the grocery store late one night when her face and the headline

YOU HAVE TO VOTE. OK, it’s not up to me to tell you what you “have to” do. But please vote. Like,

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On the Steve Harvey show last week, celebrity chef and grandmotherly racist Paula Deen came on to talk

Yes, people are going to look at you funny in Bumblefuck, Ohio, for having a little brown girl. Welcome

Meet Brian Howard. Until last Friday, Brian was a contract employee with a Federal Aviation Administration radar

So, they’re at it again. In the aftermath of Ohio State’s (unexpected) victory over Oregon in the first-ever College Football Playoff Championship Game – is that what it’s called? There have been so many iterations of the college football championship it’s hard to know what’s what – students at OSU’s campus in Columbus, Ohio, were…

In November 1981, when the Rolling Stones were touring in support of their enormously successful Tattoo You album (best known for “Start Me Up” and “Waiting on a Friend”), bassist Bill Wyman talked to Rolling Stone magazine about the band’s desire to play small clubs in the midst of its worldwide stadium-rock orgy: “When we…

Pausing between songs at his intimate, mostly acoustic November 6 show at SPACE in Evanston, Illinois, New York singer/songwriter Garland Jeffreys quipped, “So, we’re on this little tour … I call it ‘The Rest of My Life Tour’ ….” At 72 and still bringing down the house, you can’t begrudge him the hint of road-weariness…

Baseball is a game of absurd complexity and equally absurd superstition. It has nearly unfathomable regulations, like the infield fly rule or what constitutes a balk, and there are at least seven different ways for a batter to get on base other than by getting a hit. That is, if you count offensive interference and…