Salman Rushdie

Janet Evanovich Is As Good As Ever

Diary of a Madwoman

Not even Renée Zellweger can make us Jones for this sarcastic romance

Echo Chamber

Talk radio talks to itself for argument's sake

Great Pods

Comic eXistenZ turns erotic mind games into sigh-fi

Embarassing Moments In TV Cooking History: Welcome to the List, Padma

Padma Lakshmi isn't technically a celebrity chef. Yes, she's published two cookbooks and hosted/starred in an array of food-related programming. But she's also known for plenty of other endeavors, chief among them being married to Salman Rushdie and her career as a highly successful Indian model/act ... More >>

The New Next Rushdie

Padma Lakshmi isn't technically a celebrity chef. Yes, she's published two cookbooks and hosted/starred in an array of food-related programming. But she's also known for plenty of other endeavors, chief among them being married to Salman Rushdie and her career as a highly successful Indian model/act ... More >>

Independents' Day

WorldFest is back with the best films you've never heard of

Troubled Water

Deepa Mehta completes her trilogy amid outrage from Hindu fundamentalists

Best Reading Series

The Margarett Root Brown Reading Series

Divine Decadence

Rabbis won't recognize this wild and wicked Holy Land

Salman Fury

Salman Rushdie lashes out at his favorite targets in Fury

Drug Money

Narcotics task forces in Texas spend millions of dollars each year busting low-level users and dealers. Is it money well spent, or are officers just addicted to easy cash?

Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

Narcotics task forces in Texas spend millions of dollars each year busting low-level users and dealers. Is it money well spent, or are officers just addicted to easy cash?

Fatwa This

Ayatollah you once, ayatollah you again: Abbas Headline:Kiarostami's movies just aren't that interesting

Win Passes To 2012, And See What Other Religious Buildings They Wimped Out On Destroying

Roland Emmerich, who never met a plot hole he couldn't fill with explosions and shitty dialogue, tells us there's one place we won't see bite the big one in his upcoming movie 2012:  [T]he 53-year-old director had wanted to demolish the Kaaba, the iconic cube-shaped structure in the Grand Mos ... More >>

Top 5 Musicians Whose Art Trumps Their Politics

​Once again we have yet another example that if a musician opens his or her mouth without the benefit of a guitar or piano close by, trouble is usually not far behind. In this case it's Rockin' Randall Hank Williams Jr., who compared this year's Obama/John Boehner "golf summit" to Adolf Hitler ... More >>