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We watched Christina Aguilera host Saturday Night Live last night with a fair amount of apprehension. They allayed some of those fears in the monologue, confronting the skank issue head-on by having Jimmy Fallon telling her to, you know, “dress like Christina Aguilera,” and by showing a past Weekend Update …

I have no particular preconceptions going into the frenzy over Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ film. I think he has been great in any number of movies and I do not minimize his talents as a director. I also have no problem with his depicting Jews as culpable …

It appears as though the European left is finally waking up to what isolated leftists like Christopher Hitchens, Orianna Fallaci and Paul Berman have been saying for some time: that many of the basic values held by Muslims throughout the world are simply at odds with those of Western civilization, …

We have been discussing improving our writing and editing quite a bit of late in an effort to make Blogcritics a bit more uniform and easier to read. I am very gratified that so many of us are interested in improving our written communications – that is kind of what …

No one wants to lose a good job, and no one wants to see a friend or family member lose a good job – the pain is very real. The debate over trade, job and economic policy is crucial to the coming presidential election and the way we will live …

I typically find George Will to be a pompous, boring pud – even on baseball – but as the drum beats louder for restraint on trade and the “exporting” of jobs, he offers a very important and sensible counterweight to the ominous rumblings protectionists: John Kerry and John Edwards, who …

Speaking of tax loopholes, the British film industry claims it is being shut down thanks to the closure of one: Tulip Fever, starring Jude Law, was to start filming in April – but is on hold after the government closed a tax loophole it said was being abused. And The …

John Kerry played bass in a surf band and recorded an album, the first presidential candidate to have done so: The band was forged in 1961 while Mr Kerry was a pupil at the exclusive St Paul’s prep school in New Hampshire. They called themselves The Electras, and recorded their …

It’s refreshing, perhaps paradoxically, to hear a full set of music as resolutely out of fashion as slide guitar specialist George Gelish’s new home-produced CD “Don’t Quit Your Day Job.” Combining many of the elements that formed what’s now called classic rock with a knack for catchy riffs and choruses, …

Norah #2 has biggest first week of sales of any record in almost three years: Norah Jones’ “Feels Like Home,” the follow-up to her multiplatinum, Grammy-winning debut album, has sold over 1 million copies in its first week, the highest sales debut for an album since 2001. No act has …