By • Mar 11,2010

The Davis Cup in trouble?

A recent post over at the Fan House asked if the Davis Cup — tennis’s annual tournament that stretches on for nine months out of the year and pits teams...

By • Mar 10,2010

Another day in paradise

I mean that literally, unlike Phil Collins’ song about the plight of the homeless. I spent the past few days in Anse Marcel (photo above) on the Caribbean island of...

By • Mar 10,2010

Same as it ever was…

Hollywood redundancies will keep the film rudimentary and lacking in social, philosophic and aesthetic meaning. A new mind is needed to work upon the rudiments and extend them. Hollywood will...

By • Mar 10,2010

Sandra Bullock? Best actress? Seriously?

Sonny predicted she would win, calling it a “kind of lifetime achievement award”. Yet looking over Bullock’s filmography, I find it somewhat hard to identify the achievements. That said, Bullock...

By • Mar 09,2010

Like something out of "The Wire"

Via Will at the League, I see this great, rousing story about a neighborhood in Detroit trying to defend itself from criminals: Some hire middle-school kids as drug couriers, training...