In 1972 comedian George Carlin famously delineated the "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television." All seven words dealt with bodily parts or functions at a time when ...
In sporting terms, America is very much an island with its own quaint customs. For this reason the etymologically unsound American version of "football""the world's ...
The rise of the nerds to mainstream dominance is one of popular culture's most important developments over the last generation. Consider the gulf in sensibility between old ...
As an aficionado of the atrocious, I thought I"d sneak a peek at Rebecca Black's song "Friday." For those too engrossed in such small matters as Libya to notice, the ...
Dear Delphi, I know my husband has been cheating on me. He also knows that I know, because I hired a private investigator who nailed him red-handed. I wanted to get back at him, ...
America's Great Weird Religion hit Manhattan's Great White Way last Thursday night as South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone premiered their musical The Book of Mormon to ...
"Mama Tried" is a popular prison tattoo and a tear-jerking Merle Haggard country ballad. The 1968 classic tells the tale of Merle breaking his mother's heart by going to ...
NEW YORK—Twenty-two years or so ago, I wrote a column for The New York Observer, a weekly paper owned by a tycoon named Arthur Carter. He had come up the hard way and made his ...
Antaeus was a Libyan giant whose strength appeared invincible. One day he challenged the mighty Hercules to a wrestling match. Each time Antaeus was thrown to the ground, he rose ...
In Win Win, Paul Giamatti (perhaps best known for 2004's Sideways) plays a nice-guy lawyer, Mike Flaherty, who also coaches his old high school's wrestling squad. His family-law ...
Dear Delphi, I"ve had a crush on my best friend's husband for the past five years. I have never acted on my crush because I thought it was just me, plus she is my best ...
Japan has endured a three-headed monster of colossal catastrophes over the past ten days"a 9.0 earthquake, a tsunami with 30-foot crests, and an unresolved nuclear-reactor ...
In 1831, Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville came to America. Four years later, he published an outsider's perspective of the culture that remained the gold standard for exactly 176 ...
Thursday night is opening night at the Chelsea galleries in New York. But, an art opening is not a good place to look at art because there are too many distractions. Nor is it is ...
Last week was the 70th anniversary of the Café de Paris bombing during the London Blitz of 1940-41. By March of 1941 most Londoners had learned to take shelter underground when ...
GSTAAD—I’ve got the end-of-season blues. I know I say this every year, but this has been a particularly fun winter, with friends throwing goodbye parties, dinners, and lunches ...
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