Two-thousand-and-nine is drawing to a close. We’re at the end of the decade and inching towards the culmination of the ancient Mesoamerican Mayan calendar...nearing the epoch of who knows what?

Literally, philosophically, pop culturally and sociologically, the zeitgeist points to the fate of the world hanging in the...

Earlier this week, I attended my first two screenings at the Indian Film Festival Los Angeles: the L.A. premiere of Firaaq by actress and first-time director Nandita Das and the much-anticipated global premiere of Sikandar released by Big Pictures (as in Anil Ambani/Reliance, of Dreamworks deal fame). I am...

A standout piece in the Autumn/Winter 2009 couture collections -- if you're a pop culture fanatic like myself -- is undoubtedly a very special coat made of 'animal pelt' created by French designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. But no animals were harmed in the creation of the garment, unless of...

Most are dubbing the current economic collapse a recession. Others have dared utter the dreaded "d" word (depression). I posit that the current financial crisis may be a sign of something greater than either of the aforementioned: a total global, top-to-bottom reshaping of our value system--a system that hasn't thus...

"He's an Arab," one of Sen. John McCain's elderly female supporters blurted out in reference to Sen. Barack Obama, at one of McCain's rallies. This is but one item in a growing laundry list of angry and sometimes borderline Libelous remarks that Mac crowds -- initially under the conductorship of...

For today's geo-quiz, as NPR has been known to phrase it, we're looking for a country that is fast adopting the four-day work week. Gas prices are high, so people are buying smaller cars, even as petite as the SMART car and the Austin Mini. Though this nation is still...

Hollywood may have an affinity for youth, but just like in the movies, when one of its sagacious elders decides to speak, oceans part and proverbial ears perk up...especially when said utterance is published in Variety. Several days ago, soon-to-be-90 (that's 630 in Hollywood years) publicist Julian Myers told a...

When everyone and their little brother (and ultimately Big Brother), started jumping on the Facebook bandwagon, I resisted, at first. Despite its fairly recent expansion into a post-collegiate demographic, the social networking site was known to attract the bored and baby-faced. And, the idea of migrating to yet another online...

Unfortunately, TV audiences in the midst of a writers' strike aren't the only ones short on new material these days. So is political comedian Stephen Colbert. In his recent 'knee-slapping,' 'laugh-out-loud-funny' shenanigan, he veered into Robin Williams Man of the Year territory and attempted a mock run for the presidency...

Has anyone seen those crazy joke ads that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign has been running -- you know, the ones in which she makes fun of herself?

Sadly, no one has. Said spots were the fabrication of MSNBC's satirical scribe Andy Borowitz, in a recent edition of...