zach braff gets serious

The Last Kiss plays like a somber version of Zach Braff's Garden State , but despite this new film's ambitions to be significant an...

keep your 9/11 away from my 9/11

The anniversary of 9/11 always depresses me, but it goes beyond the memory of what happened five years ago. Nowadays, it's the way certa...

bob dylan

Modern Times isn't up to the level of Dylan's other recent albums. Sorry, it's true. Elsewhere in Consumables, I go nuts for Ne...

the album leaf

Jimmy LaValle, the electronica musician who is the Album Leaf, is an unassuming nice guy. I know because I interviewed him about two years ...

jody rosen on robert christgau

Slate 's Jody Rosen has a noteworthy appreciation on Robert Christgau's legacy . While I disagree with some of Rosen's nitpicks ...

talking to patricia foulkrod

Patricia Foulkrod is the director of The Ground Truth , a new documentary about the horrors that befall our troops once they return home fro...

robert christgau and "breakfast with the beatles": say it ain't so

As we slide into Labor Day weekend, there are two sad stories on my radar. First, is that Robert Christgau has been let go from the Village ...