A.V. Club: Best of the Decade
  • Music to work by

    AVQ&A Music to work by

    A reader asks the staff and commentariat what they listen to on the job.

    November 20, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Entertainment rituals

    AVQ&A Entertainment rituals

    This week’s staff and reader question asks what events you mark with specific movies and music, and what movies and music you use to mark special events.

    November 13, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • RoboCop

    AVQ&A Drop-everything movies

    This week’s staff and reader question—wait, we’ll get back to you later. RoboCop is on.

    November 6, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The Strangers

    AVQ&A Entertainment that terrified us

    Here’s where we get our chills. Where do you get yours?

    October 30, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The Karate Kid

    AVQ&A Illness entertainment

    Our weekly staff and reader question looks at the culture we fall back on when we’re sick.

    October 23, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Road-trip mix-tape

    AVQ&A Road-trip mix-tape

    What music is essential for a road trip?

    October 16, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The American Beatles

    AVQ&A The American Beatles

    A reader challenges us—and you—to identify the Great American Rock Band.

    October 9, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The New Workout Plan

    AVQ&A Rocking/working out

    We present our playlist for rocking/working out. What makes you sweat?

    October 2, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Hitman

    AVQ&A Favorite micro-genres

    What ridiculously specific, narrow types of things do you love?

    September 25, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Tom Waits

    AVQ&A The cluelessness of youth

    What pop-culture blind spots would have lit up your life when you were younger, but didn’t?

    September 18, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • This is the world we live in.

    AVQ&A Celebrity encounters

    This week, our staff and reader question looks at all the famous people we’ve met.

    September 11, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Whoo-aah!

    AVQ&A Cliché, hooray

    We follow up last week’s staff and reader question by examining the familiar tropes that work just fine for us.

    September 4, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Imagine That

    AVQ&A Cliché, cliché, go away

    Oh no, not that again.

    August 28, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • There is no try too late. Only do.

    AVQ&A Art we tried too late

    Our weekly staff and reader question considers the perfectly good art that we came to at the wrong time in our lives.

    August 21, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Dream collaborations

    AVQ&A Dream collaborations

    Our weekly staff and reader question focuses on what beloved artists we'd like to see working together.

    August 14, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Zach Galifianakis and Josh Modell?

    AVQ&A Celebrity BFFs 

    Our weekly staff-and-reader question explores which famous people we'd like to pal around with.

    August 7, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Favorite time-wasting websites

    AVQ&A Favorite time-wasting websites

    Our staff and readers discuss how they distract themselves at work when they aren't reading The A.V. Club.

    July 31, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • V For Vendetta

    AVQ&A Recommended first comics

    We wrap up comics week by focusing the weekly staff and reader question on what comics we'd recommend for newbies to the field.

    July 24, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Wedded bliss

    AVQ&A Wedding ceremonies

    A groom-to-be asks the staff and readers what music and readings make weddings better.

    July 17, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • First jobs and pop-culture memories

    AVQ&A First jobs and pop-culture memories

    Our weekly staff and reader question looks at the pop culture we associate with our miserable early employment.

    July 10, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Proud to be an American.

    AVQ&A American pop-culture pride

    Our weekly staff and reader question examines the parts of pop culture that make us proudest of our country.

    July 3, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • RIP Michael Jackson

    AVQ&A Jackson memories

    Join us with your reflections on the King Of Pop's death.

    June 26, 2009 | 12:11pm -

  • Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

    AVQ&A Love at first video

    Our weekly staff and reader question asks what great music did television bring you? 

    June 26, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The best around.

    AVQ&A Best music of 2009 so far

    We look back on the last six months of music and invite you to do the same.

    June 19, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Namaste

    AVQ&A Fun fictional worlds

    A reader asks, what imaginary world would you most like to live in?

    June 12, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Chill

    AVQ&A The songs of summer

    To celebrate the season, we ask the staff and readers what songs feel most like summer.

    June 5, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Wow, look at those low rates!

    AVQ&A Favorite local commercials

    Our weekly staff and reader question summons up all the little jingles that are still stuck in our heads.

    May 29, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Johnny Dangerously

    AVQ&A Pop-culture relic quotes

    What can you still not stop quoting, even when it makes people look at you funny?

    May 22, 2009 | 12:02am -

  • Controversy!

    AVQ&A Third (or fourth, or fifth) time’s the charm

    Our weekly staff and reader question explores art that we didn’t get the first time around.

    May 15, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • U2 circa 1980

    AVQ&A Lifetime grudges

    We follow up last week’s “Who gets a lifetime pass?” question with “Who would you take a lifetime pass on?”

    May 8, 2009 | 1:06pm -