The year is over. The decade done. Here are the best and worst of 2009 and of the decade, the biggest winners and the biggest losers.
Jerry Capeci | Posted 12.28.2009 | New York
Just as the holiday crowd at the Banner Social Club in Brooklyn -- it included three Bonanno wiseguys -- began to unwind, shotgun-toting party poopers with search warrants arrived.
Michael Rugnetta | Posted 12.21.2009 | Entertainment
Good programming provides us with built-in commentary through nuanced connections between a subculture and our broader culture. Jersey Shore frustrates me because there is absolutely none of this commentary.
Bill Mann | Posted 12.14.2009 | Entertainment
Here's this critic's holiday "gift" to readers: my Top 10 shows of the almost-past decade, from The Sopranos' uncommon excellence to Jon Stewart's comedy gold.
Posted 12.06.2009 | Entertainment
Even the best, slow burning story arcs must one season come to an end, and the noughties saw the end of some television favorites. Which of these show...
Jeff Rivera | Posted 11.10.2009 | Entertainment
Jeff Rivera is an entertainment reporter who blogs about young Hollywood celebrities . He is also the author of the novel, Forever My Lady(Grand Ce...
Mr. Skin | Posted 11.22.2009 | Style
Explosions and mechanical mayhem have supplanted plot and character at the movies and thus, the simple art of storytelling has moved into living rooms. Where plots develop and characters grow, sex happens.
William Bradley | Posted 11.21.2009 | Entertainment
Last night's repeat win at the Emmy Awards further enshrined Mad Men as television's best series on a night when it aired a consequential new episode.
washingtonindependent.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Camille Paglia, the lone Salon.com columnist who can count on her ramblings getting regular links from The Drudge Report, appeared on NPR's "On Point"...
Jerry Capeci | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York
Mob stories continue to be such a hit with movie audiences that you can't blame Mafia sons -- whose dads did the crimes and the time -- from trying to cash in.
William Bradley | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment
There are a number of ways to view Mad Men. For my own part, I can take it as a period piece, a sort of time capsule of the early '60s, at once relatively close yet far enough away to be intriguing for its unfamiliarity.
Tom Matlack | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment
The violence of Tony Soprano and swagger of Don Draper are a cover for the quiet desperation Matthew Weiner sees in all of us. They are liars who want to be what they are not.
AP | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green
PUTNAM VALLEY, N.Y. (AP) -- A civic group is urging some waste management in a suburban New York lake where episodes of "The Sopranos'' were made. ...
Laura Tunberg | Posted 06.04.2009 | Entertainment
History shows that major innovations create major opportunities. The visionaries benefit, the fearful resist and languish. The key has always been seeing the change and adapting.
David Finkle | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment
Maybe this is an overdue recognition that men -- traditionally socialized to be strong, to deny their flaws adamantly -- are finally able to come face to face with them.
Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.09.2009 | Entertainment
Tweet Compete -- in which contestants compete to see who can tweet the fastest while they perform typical reality show tasks like eating bull penises and jumping off tall buildings.
Marshall Fine | Posted 03.27.2009 | Entertainment
I'm here to say that, as it stands, TV turns out more solid and consistent entertainment every week than the Hollywood movie studios put out between January and October most years.
NY Daily News | Posted 03.24.2009 | Home
James Gandolfini had people praying for their lives on a regular basis as mobster Tony Soprano. But to land a role in Broadway's "God of Carnage," wh...
Miles Klee | Posted 03.13.2009 | Comedy
Snowglobe.
Freak you, fugly mother-toucher.
Bull shoe.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 03.12.2009 | Comedy
I'm always amazed when people make comprehensive videos like this, ones that take hours and hours of mind-numbing research, for very strange results. ...
AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 02.09.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — A former actor on "The Sopranos" was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a botched burglary in the Bronx in which an accomplic...
AP | Posted 01.25.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Police say the actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on "The Sopranos" has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound i...
AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 01.22.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — A slain police officer's sister reacted with disgust after a jury cleared a former actor on "The Sopranos" of her brother's killing d...
Carl Capotorto | Posted 01.16.2009 | Style
A long time before I started acting, I worked at a McDonalds in the Bronx and my manager at the time was Curtis Sliwa, pre-Guardian Angels and radio talk show host.
AP | Posted 10.21.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — "Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato Jr. is set to go to trial next month in the death of an off-duty New York police officer. A judge ru...
Taylor Marsh | Posted 01.02.2010 | Politics