A.V. Club Blog

Jul 3, 2008

I do take requests when it comes to this feature, in no small part because suggestions from you guys have helped me find (and sometimes introduced me...

Jun 26, 2008

Most of the musicians I’ve been featuring in this series have been from Mississippi, with

Jun 19, 2008

In his book Deep Blues, Robert Palmer describes Eddie “Son” House as “a failed...

Jun 13, 2008

Before actually telling you anything about Furry Lewis, it’s probably best to just throw one...

Jun 5, 2008

A lot of the musicians in this series were only filmed late in their lives because in their younger days, during the 1930s or earlier, nobody in...

May 29, 2008

I wasn’t very familiar with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee before starting this little blogging project, but as soon as I heard them, I knew I had...

May 22, 2008

Chester Arthur Burnett, a.k.a. Howlin’ Wolf, was a true giant of the blues, a great...

May 24, 2006

Hey you guys, So I just got the following email update from my main home slices over at Allhiphop.com "Chicago rapper Twista is hard at work on his third major-label album and will be adding the role of actor to his growing list of titles. "I aint know too much about acting, but I got one of the best acting coaches," Twista told AllHipHop.com. "I ain't gonna reveal no secrets or nothing, [but] we gonna put it down right and you're gonna see Twista doing it real big on the screen."

May 22, 2006

So I was at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art yesterday checking out the Andy Warhol and Chris Ware exhibits and a white-haired senior citizen in a wheelchair saw that there was an exhibit of comic strips and guilessly gushed to the silver-haired gent pushing her chair "Oh goody! I love cartoons!"

May 22, 2006

"IF YOU HATED THE MOVIE SO MUCH WHY DID YOU GO AND SEE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE?????"

May 22, 2006

fourth in an ongoing series

May 22, 2006

The Da Vinci Code

May 19, 2006

It's not what you think—it's actually worse.

May 18, 2006

Of all the really great vintage video clips that YouTube has helped unleash on the Internet, this is one of my recent favorites—the website...

May 18, 2006

Thoughts on Dick Cavett, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Conan and the holy trinity of Benny, Cosby and Frazier

May 15, 2006

Hey you guys, I’m mixed on DMX as a rapper and actor but I’m a huge fan of his misbehavior. I’m especially impressed by his longstanding genius for getting arrested in the most flamboyant, colorful manner possible. Seriously, he’s like the Ronnie Dobbs of hip hop. Only Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Juvenile can match his gift for being incarcerated under the most ridiculous circumstances.