Steve Driver's tale of swords, tasers and sex inspires titters across the Web, but underneath, it's a tragedy

In her second feature, Gillian Robespierre handles infidelity as deftly as she handled abortion in "Obvious Child"

Pop music's food fetish is just a thinly veiled hunger for love.

Kitchen slang — like "Behind!" and "Yes, chef" — is ripe for double entendre, though your mileage may vary

Viola Davis transforms to assume her role, but so does Chadwick Boseman. Together they create something magnificent

Tofu Hut's John Seroff provides a six-step primer on the pied piper of R&B.

Text-messaging has made the late-night drunken hookup insanely easy. 2 EZ?

The pop landscape is dominated in part by former stars of the middle school circuit, for good reason

Suffering from hobbit withdrawal? These tracks will give you a Middle-earth fix

It's hard to overstate the offensiveness of the fabulous four's exquisitely tone-deaf trip to Abu Dhabi

Elizabeth Cook sings about mullets, hipsters, sleeping with drunks and how "it takes balls to be a woman"

I know this young woman has problems at home, but I think she might need a good slapping!

I annotate movies. I do this so that "Sugar and Spice" isn't translated into Swahili as "Condiments, the Movie."

Is the Jamaican music biz just so much bloodsucking globalization? And does Salon need to "lighten up" and learn to love "lowbrow" fare like "Straight Plan for the Gay Man"? Readers have their say.