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...