Today is RAW day, w00t! Cuts for spoilers. You can skip to the middle of the post for other interesting stuff if you don't care about manga. Bleach 244 : get it . Is it just me or is Bleach getting exciting again? Perhaps because Ishida's back...

Ok, so I admit it, I am an iTunes/iPod junkie. I have assembled a small collection of my favorite songs. It's hard for me to distinguish any one category of music as my favorite. I like it all...

Ioan Holender, the powerful and sometimes controversial Intendant (chief executive) of the Vienna State Opera, announced today that he will step down from his position when his current contract expires in August 2010...

On by Michael J. West: That this argument even went on to Comment #47 and involved so many "Oh, yeah? Well so-and-so said s.....

Howard Shore's awarded and praised scores for the three Lord of the Rings films are some of the most thematically rich and complex scores in recent times...

I missed last week's second-season premiere of on IFC, but it reruns often enough that I'll be able to catch it. The show featured an interview with Marilyn Manson and a performance by Peaches...

I have a terrible fault as a columnist. It doesn t affect you, my readers, so much as it affects me. For some reason, I won t allow myself to write the same thing more than once...