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Hail, hail: black nerd icon Janelle Monáe’s new album of sound and vision, Dirty Computer, is out. It’s dope, and different. It’s the freest...
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Hail, hail: black nerd icon Janelle Monáe’s new album of sound and vision, Dirty Computer, is out. It’s dope, and different. It’s the freest...
What’s going on, kids? My mind is wiped. Lots of chaos in the news, in the country and in the world amid these Trump...
I wonder how Ready Player One will work as a movie. To become viable, the movie likely has to jettison a lot of how...
I’ve seen The Shape of Water twice in the past few weeks, both before it won the Academy Award for Best Picture earlier this...
What do you say about Black Panther? Where do you begin? This movie, a piece of the Disney-owned Marvel Studios blockbuster machine, another cog...
So, I’m a little annoyed with my black nerd self at the moment. How did I not know that Black Lightning (The CW) would...
In my last column, I said I was finally ready to see The Last Jedi. Life got in the way: Moving, then holiday travel,...
Hello, 2018. I know we just met, but at least we started in style and in familiar comfort: with my friends amid song, booze,...
It’s a Saturday in December, and the snow is falling as I drive down I-95 in a U-Haul truck. The day grows colder, the...
I’m tired. Spent. Sure, many of us are. The nation appears awash in chaos coming from the scandal-ridden White House on down. When, ever...
Oh, look! The fall TV season is well under way! And I’ve been watching, folks. Not as much as usual, but I make sure...
Can I dare say I’m a little bit excited about this Justice League movie? It’s coming out on my birthday weekend, so that’s good,...
South Park is turning 20, I am turning 37, and I think the thrill is gone. I don’t think the show has changed, exactly....
There has been a lot of old TV shows playing in my house lately. Our cable provider reshuffled the channels, and my wife now...
So I’m watching Game of Thrones season seven’s penultimate episode,“Beyond the Wall,” and I should be freaking amped. It’s Jon Snow, Sandor “The Hound”...
I must confess. I didn’t see Girls Trip until its second weekend in theaters. Yes, I have sinned, and I paid the penance –of...
I’m still working my way through all the nuggets of awesome to come out at San Diego Comic-Con. At this Nerdmas in July, the...
Doomed man in space, a mad scientist tormentor, sarcastic robot friends, and cheesy movies. I am living the revival life with Mystery Science Theater...
These days, my pop culture life has been filled with wonder. On the Friday opening night of Wonder Woman, you would have found me...
There are many things that Steven Universe fans love about the animated series: the anime style, the jokes, the lore, the cosplay appeal, its...
Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On is the kind of album that, no matter how many times I listen to it, each time its greatness...
Praise the geek gods for Greg Berlanti and the Arrowverse, right? Never, ever, in a million years, did I think I’d be watching weekly...
The Fate of the Furious, the eighth feature film in the Fast and the Furious series, opens on a familiar setpiece: Dom Toretto (Vin...
Kong: Skull Island burst its way into multiplexes to usher out this past winter, presenting tons of movie monster bombast and over-the-waterfall-and-through-the-rocks action thrills...