Chev’s1545 St. Clair Blvd.203-6623
The air was cool and the streetlights warm in a freshening rain when my companion and I took in an evening at Chev’s, an eatery just around the corner from Jane and St. Clair Boulevard.
Chev’s is just beginning to get its belt on under it, after spending a year and a month […]

“Sexy Losers”Drawn and written by HardUpdates weekly (currently on hiatus)
For those lucky few for which this will be their first link, the World Wide Web is filled with pornography. For pay, for free, or for pop-up, the web is filled with carnal media. Very little of this painting of whores is of any value beyond […]

Christina Milian featuring Fabolous“Dip It Low”3 minutes, 23 seconds
In the mind of man lies a sprawling, jewel-behung idyll in which the ego is permitted to run free, adorning itself in all manner of bling; where every palm-tree-fringed oasis is a mirror for the self-indulgent, and Narcissus rises like a waterborn phoenix. How refreshing it is, […]

“Aliens vs. Predator”Starring Sanaa Lathan, Lance HenriksenDirected by Paul Anderson
If Alien (1979) was the reawakening of a societal fear of sexual intrusion, and Predator (1987) represented alienation from one’s government, what could a head-on collision between the two possibly symbolize? Foregoing mental images of rape perpetrated by the Lincoln Monument, Alien vs. Predator is a […]

Friend Joey Tribbiani, of the fabled and now-completed American television show Friends, has ensconced himself in popular consciousness as an everyman one-and-a-half steps behind the everyman. Fortunately for Matt Le Blanc, the program that signed his checks is lodged more firmly in the esophagus of our hearts than even an ultimate-orange-pounding Heimlich could account for. […]

“Men In Hats”Drawn and written by Aaron FarberUpdates daily
Farber is one of few webcartoonists who actually began their online curriculum vitae with their sophomore effort. No stranger to webcomicking in a vacuum, his previous effort Pentasmal rang true, if somewhat obscurist, leaving potential new readers to, as the catchphrase goes, “get nothing.”
His current […]