Children’s book author Maurice Sendak died Tuesday, May 8, 2012 in Danbury, Connecticut at the age of 83. According to Michael di Capua, his longtime editor, [...]

Legendary punk bassist Mike Watt (of Minutemen, fIREHOSE, The Stooges, Unknown Instructors) will be releasing a photographic memoir on May 1, 2012 entitled Mike Watt: [...]

Thanks to a poor decision made by some clueless HarperCollins publishing exec, the horrifying artwork in the children’s book Scary Stories to Tell in the [...]

As I’ve stated previously, I am a staunch believer in the serial (Oxford) comma. Apparently, so are many of our readers, as evidenced by the [...]

I am a staunch believer in the serial comma (i.e., the Oxford comma). This image, courtesy of The Gloss, illustrates why: On a personal note, [...]

Award-winning author Neil Gaiman and his wife Amanda Palmer are embarking on a brief co-headlining tour of the West Coast this Fall, starting with a [...]

A film adaptation of one of Hunter S. Thompson‘s greatest yet most under-appreciated works, The Rum Diary, is set to finally hit the silver screen. [...]

Because quiddich and mass suicides go hand in hand.

Keanu Reeves has written a sad, sad book. But can we really say we didn’t see this coming? In the words of Bill S. Preston, [...]

Gil Scott-Heron: April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011

Owning homes in both Florida and Maine, King acknowledges that he resides in two of the three states where Tea Partiers have taken the governorship, and poses the question: “As a rich person I pay 28 percent tax. What I want to ask you is: why am I not paying 50?”

How did I miss this one? I like Edgar Allen Bro even more than Hipster Einstein. For more Edgar Allen Bro-ness head over to his [...]

On April 26, Of Montreal will be releasing a new EP called thecontrollersphere on Polyvinyl Records.  The EP consists of five tracks come from the same [...]

Deerhunter played a live show at the Apple store in New York in September,  and now a live EP recorded at the show is being [...]

As a tribute to the old-school 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System games of their youth, a pair of San Francisco-based video game developers have released the [...]