Video Monday: Welcome to Ashley
My apartment no longer smells like turkey. That makes me smile—almost as much as I smiled while watching Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox Saturday night at the Forum 8. Animals in natty threads always cheer me up, along with a sparkly soundtrack—in this case, a pairing of original compositions by Alexandre Desplat with tracks from Burl Ives, the Beach Boys, the Bob

Album of the Week, 11/26/09--"A Brief History of Love" by The Big Pink
Let's hope you're all doing whatever it is you enjoy doing on Thanksgiving. I'm taking a holiday break fr

Turkey Seconds on Mars
Those of us wedded to our cubicles are one day removed from the holiday break. I will be cooking my first turkey this year and likely trashing my apartment's oven, burning off my patience, and serving up a side dish of bitchery. The holidays chafe me rawer than Tegan and Sara's voices.However, I am thankful for THIS GUY:

Ten Best Soundtracks of the 00s
With only one month to go in the current decade, top 10 lists are popping up like swine flu mutations... Top 10 Songs from Schmaltz-Lacquered TV Shows, Top 10 Tunes to Tweet Like a Twit About, Top 10 Concerts for Naked Crowd Surfing, Top 10 Songs to Listen to While Recycling Tofu Cartons, Top 10 Bands to Mail Body Fluids To, etc.... Everyone loves a list: they're neat, they're concise, they're scannable. They are also,

An Education
Saturday night my friend and I saw An Education at Ragtag. Nick Hornby wrote the screenplay for this fresh retelling of the old "sophisticate corrupts naif" tale set in early 1960s England. Sixteen-year-old Jenny is torn between two very different forms of education: the Latin and English