From the billboards alone, you might assume the Food Network broadcasts MMA events and Bobby Flay kicks outrageous amounts of ass. I feel any advertisement I see for the station’s programming features one of its celebrity chefs with his arms crossed and a combative scowl that says, “if you don’t like this gourmet doughnut, I’ll [...]

I watched two movies this weekend, Blade Runner and The Running Man, which were both made in the 1980s and both set in the year 2019.
Neither 2019 reality appears entirely likely to happen, but I’ve made this helpful chart to sort the two out. Hat tip to Eric Simon at Amazin’ Avenue for the HTML [...]

We left Mohegan Sun around 11 p.m. on Saturday night because we had seen all we wanted to see, we were down five bucks, and we had a long drive back to Westchester ahead of us.
But we didn’t realize we were leaving at precisely the same time a Kid Rock there let out, so we [...]

The show Lost starts up again tonight. I’m psyched.
For a while, that wasn’t necessarily the case. This will be the final season of the show — a longform mystery rooted in dime-store philosophy and science fiction — and after the end of the last season, I feared the show’s myriad still-unanswered questions could be answered [...]

Occasionally I check Craiglist for bands in my area looking for a bassist. I’m rusty on the instrument and my amp is buried somewhere deep within my parents’ garage, but I miss playing shows and figure if I found the right group of area would-be rock stars it might be fun to join on as [...]

The wife was out last night and Death Race was on Cinemax. So that’s what this is about.
Jason Statham is awesome. He perpetually looks like he’s about to kick someone’s ass, even in scenes when he’s tenderly romancing his wife in the kitchen and such.
In fact, it feels like just about every Jason Statham movie [...]

So apparently it’s a big deal in England to have the No. 1 single during Christmas week. And apparently for the last four years, the Christmas charts have been dominated by winners of X Factor, a Simon Cowell-produced pop-singing competition in the American Idol mold.
And apparently this year, someone got so disgusted with it that [...]

I saw James Cameron on the street Monday night, outside of a bar on 51st St. in Manhattan.
I considered walking up to him and asking, excitedly, “Excuse me, are you the man responsible for Titanic?” and then, when he said yes, punching him in the face.
I realize that’s not a nice thing to do, plus [...]

I’ve been so caught up in Winter Meetings nonsense this week that I’ve been totally remiss in weighing in on non-baseball nonsense.
Mark McGrath, in case you’re unfamiliar, is Sugar Ray.
You might argue that technically Mark McGrath is just the lead singer of the band Sugar Ray, but as my colleague Dave Tomar has pointed out [...]

Being a member of the Strokes must suck. You have to deal with having tons of fans, playing sold-out shows all the time, suffering through endless praise from critics, and sleeping with models on top of giant piles of money.
Actually, I’m being sarcastic. That wouldn’t suck at all.
And yet apparently none of the Strokes are [...]