By Oct 01,2006

Sotto Vox

The instantly likable Mena Trott, dressed in a Diane von Furstenberg-style retro-printed frock, looked more like she was about to unveil a collection of fashion accessories than what could be...

By Oct 01,2006

Remaking Hollywood

The release this fall of Hollywoodland and The Black Dahlia signaled the fedora-laden return of retro noir, a sub-genre of film noir that has only had occasional success over the years, most notably with Chinatown (1974)...

By Sep 24,2006

Truthiness: An interpretive dance

For Jim McGreevey, the truth was always whatever he could get away with. That is, until he appointed a former lover to a high level position who later tried to...

By Sep 24,2006

A lesson of Plamegate

This Novak insider only needed publicly reported information and a dab of common sense to tell just how far off from the truth was much of the media's coverage of...

By Sep 24,2006

Emasculated England

Somewhere along the way, England seems to have rushed headlong into the world of animal rights, environmental activism, political correctness, and other liberal nostrums.