. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING “Have You Seen…?” The Jews had Moses to deliver the Ten Commandments, and those of us who worship at the altar of cinema have David Thomson. The author of the magisterial The New Biographical Dictionary of Film has given us a holy treat with the release of [...]

. A Life In Review by Ryan Dixon Since the bad news came during the elation of the Obama election — a celebration rivaled in transcendent excitement only by the Rebel Alliance’s defeat of the Empire at the end of Return of the Jedi — perhaps the low-key response to Michael Crichton’s passing shouldn’t come [...]

. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCE ANTICIPATION Ghost-to-Ghost on Coast to Coast While it seems like truly bizarre radio programs can now only be found while driving deep into the desert or hiking through the dueling banjos territory of Appalachia, the nationally syndicated Coast to Coast AM with George Noory (airing 10PM-2AM, six nights [...]

. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING The Original Faces of Death: 30th Anniversary Edition Before the internet allowed us to watch footage of people being mauled by animals for free,  any aspiring video age Percival had to search high and low for quality smut, and there was no relic so highly prized as [...]

. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon (Surgeon General’s Warning: May Cause Hemorrhoids if Read on the Toilet) FIERCELY ANTICIPATING Haunted Houses Halloween is here and that means it’s time to make the pilgrimage to haunted houses. Here are the three must-visit haunted destinations in Southern California: Spooky House Haunted Theme Park (Chatsworth, CA): Looks can [...]

. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING Honk! Festival of Street Bands What happens to all of those awkward, yet enthusiastic high school and college-age souls who take off their shakos and leave behind the sex-crazed, drug addled lifestyle of the marching band? Well, it seems that many of them have thankfully forgotten to [...]

/ A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING Religulous / An American Carol Not since 2004’s The Passion of the Christ and Fahrenheit 9/11 have two movies been released that so perfectly represent the opposing views in our national Cold War of ideology. While it’s almost a given that Maher’s film (directed by Borat helmer [...]

A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING Neil Diamond in Concert The Oughts have been very good to Neil Diamond. Like his fellow pop-culture roller-coaster rider William Shatner (both “Solitary Man” and Star Trek first appeared in 1966), for a long time it looked like the career trajectory for both men was going to be [...]

. A blogumn by Delia Hauser We’ve all done it.  We’ve all stood in front of a mirror examining a hat, scarf or new piece of jewelry and asked the BIG question.  “But…Is It Me?” This madness has to stop.  We ARE whomever we please and we should allow ourselves to change our look everyday [...]

. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman. I may be threatening to enter uncharted nerd territory by writing about a book that explores the behind the scenes machinations of the Bush administration for the second week in a row, but this newly released tome is the [...]