An unmade Green Lantern script by Robert Smigel is genuinely funny.
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Author: Shawn Conner
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An afternoon eating and drinking at a food trade show.
Very strong stalker-thriller. Don’t be fooled by the cover.
Eating and drinking our way through Portland, Oregon.
Jennifer Egan on A Visit from the Goon Squad I met Jennifer Egan a year or two before this interview, at a library in Brooklyn.…
The 1981 movie is still a delight 30 years later.
Interview—Mark Yarm, author of Everybody Loves Our Town Mark Yarm‘s new book Everybody Loves Our Town follows the rise and fall of grunge, and how it…
Lots to choose from at the Australia Regional Round-Up.
Chaplin, Modern Times, Green Hornet and Black Swan.
Buffalo Trace bourbon tasting at Brix One thing I’ve always loved about Buffalo Trace is its name. It’s got to be a good bourbon if…
If you love ABBA, ABBA: Arrival from Sweden isn’t a bad substitute for the real thing.
This one’s a winner. Especially after the tawdry, dull Burlesque.
Not the book the band deserves.
A new documentary traces the career of the comedienne.
In ‘Exit Sandman’, writer Shawn Conner goes through a self-imposed comic-book de-programming.
Guided by Voices West Coast reunion tour 2010 In 2010, Guided by Voices reunited after a five-year absence. I had seen the “final” shows, New…
East Van resident Louise Papais tries to see the Olympic torch, fails.
This New York Review Books edition, published last year and translated from the Italian by Marina Harss, is a beauty, and a must-see for aficionados of graphic novels and comics.
Alan Moore’s 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom – by Shawn Conner In 2006, Lost Girls was published. Something of a milestone, it was the…
An index of what I saw at Burning Man 2009.