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May 15, 2008

This time out, let’s check in on a few songs by Booker T. Washington “Bukka” White, who...

May 15, 2008

Screw the Grammys, this is the kind of award every musician should hope for: Neil Young has had a spider named in his honor. East...

May 12, 2008

May 8, 2008

This is the second in what I hope will be a fairly extensive series highlighting some of the terrific performances by old-school blues musicians that...

May 5, 2008

Talk about striking while the iron is hot: Just after Iron Man led the box office...

May 1, 2008

Among its other fine qualities, YouTube has been a gold mine for people who, like me, love finding gems of yesterday's pop culture. I'm a particular...

Apr 30, 2008

Wire and Simpsons fans, this is worth keeping an eye on—Oregon artist Steve Lieber has started a project drawing...

Jul 27, 2005

I abandoned my effort to avoid finding out who won the World Series of Poker the morning after the main event ended, when my eye fell on the winner's name in my local newspaper. What I didn't realize then was how ridiculous my plan to keep myself ignorant actually was.

Jul 27, 2005

I expected the worst out of the festival: unruly crowds, outrageously priced concessions; brief sets; people boozed up and looking to kick some ass.

Jul 26, 2005

For the right audience—sickos like me, I guess—this year has yet to produce a more exciting piece of American filmmaking.

Jul 26, 2005

Even though Elizabeth Moon is my favorite fantasy author -- I read The Deed of Paksenarrion every year, and frequently teach it -- I didn't know she'd written a book about adult autism with a near-future setting.

Jul 25, 2005

Hello, and welcome to the new-look A.V. Club. Take your time. Look at the colors. Pretty, no? And that new logo—sporty, huh? Oh, and what's this... a blog? What the...

This week marks the debut of the lovingly overhauled A.V. Club website. Longtime readers needn't worry—we haven't taken anything away. You'll still find the same mix of opinionated reviews, probing interviews, unpredictable special features, and our regular plunges into obscurity: Games of Our Lives, Films That Time Forgot, and Commentary Tracks Of The Damned.