Los Angeles
Kobe Bryant is suffering a midseason crisis. Back in October, with 16 years and five championships under his belt with the Los Angeles Lakers, Bryant had looked to his new super-team—stocked with the aging, future Hall of Fame guard Steve Nash and the veteran big men Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol—as his last, best chance to match or even surpass the six titles won by Michael Jordan, his idol and the rarely disputed Greatest of All Time. READ MORE >>
An "Enlightened" Mike White Wants to Change TV
The Year in Art: The Best Exhibits of 2012
Bret Easton Ellis, Twitter Psycho
The Many Wonders of Christopher Walken
Now that Christopher Walken is getting lauded up and down for his performance in "Seven Psychopaths," we thought it'd be worth bringing back this wonderful short essay on the actor by Andrew Corsello. It originally ran on the dearly departed website Other People's Stories, and contains the best reference to Fran Drescher in American letters. READ MORE >>
Soak the Almost Rich
Immigration Reform’s Wild-Card Power Broker
How to Save College Basketball
The Curse of Warholism
Obama Loses The Cavalry Vote
The peak Twitter moment in Monday night’s presidential debate occurred when President Obama answered Mitt Romney’s complaint that the Navy has fewer ships today than in 1916: “Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military has changed.” READ MORE >>