In celebration of National LGBT Pride Month, it's time to put together a list of the best LGBT characters from movies and TV shows.
In celebration of National LGBT Pride Month, it's time to put together a list of the best LGBT characters from movies and TV shows.
It seems fitting that Anthony Weiner's surrealistic meltdown of a press conference came on the same day that Steve Jobs unveiled another path to making our lives more virtual, more convenient, and more risky.
It's hard to figure out why someone didn't come up with such a great way to celebrate such a cocktail-mad city long ago.
How was the season finale? On the anti-climactic side, actually, and not nearly as good as the penultimate episode, one of the show's best. But it did set up an intriguing beginning to the show's ninth season in the fall.
Between Leon Panetta's experience in cutting costs as Clinton's federal budget director and the striking success of William McRaven's counter-terrorist bin Laden mission, maybe this duo can help get us on a different track.
Mad Men matches these times much better than does West Wing, 2008's Bartlet-like politics of hope notwithstanding. It's just too bad that the mass audience eludes it.
July has come to mean a lot of lovely things, but for me, returning to the '60s and catching up with Don, Bette, Peggy, Roger and Co is right up there.
I was shocked, even stunned, by the play The Escort. I think it is one of the most engaging, interesting and finest depictions of sexual relations I have ever encountered in the theatre.
Elizabeth Taylor's passing really got me thinking about looks that defined that time. I've taken each statement from the 1920s to 1980s and put a new spin on it.
When will we make the connection between official American violence and the free-for-all of our products?
Doctor Who is once again an institution in the UK, with a vast audience. Here in the US it's more of a cult favorite.
Neither too involved nor too uninterested parents have any interest at all in the inner life of their children -- their hopes, desires, dreams. And without nourishing those aspects, we starve them of everything from imagination to hope.
Oh, Freedom! "Freedom" was in the air -- the frigid air -- on that sunny early afternoon a half century ago today when John F. Kennedy uttered his mos...
I am a professor of sociology teaching classes on gender and social change -- and I have never read Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique." It turns out that very few of my well-educated, feminist-leaning friends have either.
Niki de Saint Phalle's Black Rosy is an iconic work representing the shadow of Eros that would be repressed by feminist criticism in the years to com...
The difficulty of compiling a Top 10 Best TV Shows of the Year list points to the fact that people who complain there is nothing worth watching on television don't know what they are talking about.
Ever the optimist, I decided that my last post of the year should be a tribute to the things, from Mahler to Freedom, that made the past year endurable, if not, at times, outright beautiful.
2010 was a busy year. Like every other year, you had to deal with the family, work, fantasy football ... oh, and you really should get that noise your...
The best show on television is again being honored as the awards season begins to ramp up. There's nothing that says Christmas quite like advertising and excess.
As I began writing my list of favorite television shows of the year, I instantly placed Mad Men in the number one slot. But I just couldn't shake the survivors of Oceanic Airlines.