The race between 2 Democrats — Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez — to replace Barbara Boxer speaks volumes

The "Last Week Tonight" writer talks to Salon about his new album, handling hecklers and working for John Oliver

Ongoing research elaborates the incredible lengths male animals (and men) will go to ensure that sperm meets egg

Eddie Izzard at P.S. 122.

The chain has earned praise for promoting animal welfare — but there's no getting past the bloody truth

The film "Breakfast of Champions" misses the point: What "Bokononists" love is Father Kurt's smart anti-intellectualism.

Pick of the week: Two British comics on a fine-dining tour in a side-splitting, casually brilliant guy flick

Trey Parker and Matt Stone's potty-mouthed genius has made them into our country's greatest living humorists

Bill Gates lets out a big "Whew!" as the court decides that what's good for Microsoft is good for America.

What you need to see, read, do this week: Al Green, undercover Green Day and ... "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead."

Nothing suspicious at all about a rumor that Britney Spears stripped to her skivvies with Ben Affleck; the kids are all right, a friend of Melissa Etheridge says of the singer's now-broken home. Plus: Graham Chapman's ashes get prime seating at his own play.

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson attempted to explore the intersection of the performing arts and digital culture. But a funny thing happened on the way to the theater.

Charles Darwin's boozy, girl-crazy great-great-grandson goes to Tennessee to sneer at the Bible-quoting locals -- and stays to learn a lesson in faith.

The culture of anti-intellectualism in America is fueling hateful, racist demagogues -- in politics and on TV