The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A marine responded. "Yeah, right, University of Jihad, motherfucker." What the fuck It's a hot title, only partially...

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ArtCal Zine home page screen grab Omigosh, I'm not sure I can stand the excitement. ArtCal now has a real zine! No, I'm really serious about my enthusiasm: I think this thing is really cool. A...

say no to the no Lately you may have noticed a decline in posts here about gallery shows. There's a reason: I'm not feeling it just now. I'm going to sound like a grouch, if not just a scold, b...

John Singer Sargent Ethel Smyth 1901 pastel If this hundred-year-old opera had always enjoyed the success it deserves today I'd probably be whining about the endless parade of productions of La Bo...

Roy Batty's epiphany Last night I spent far too much time worrying about how to express the depth of my broader frustration and despair before posting the latest version of my regular fulminations...

This post is part of a series begun on May 21, 2007, which will continue until the U.S. concentration camps at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere around the world have been razed. Many of us learned yea...

Noah Lyon's print mural, wrapped around a wall above his colorful booth Slavs & Tatars poster ("the money, it's not so smart, says the Tajik guy") Soiled Mattress and the Springs, sounding ...

Michael Cline Picket 2007 oil on linen 62" x 36" [detail] In time, Michael Cline's jaw-dropping show of oils at Daniel Reich, "Folks", may be recorded as a cultural benchmark, both aesthetic and...

lights out The pink cupcake is dark tonight. Dead. And long may it rest, in oblivion. I was immediately sorry for what the closing of Burgers & Cupcakes might mean to its employees, but m...