Frozen Over Nothing quite communicates the commodification of childhood like appending “ON ICE” to the title of any treasured story. “The Velveteen Rabbit … ON ICE.” See? But if any giant corporate entity can successfull...

In a world where movie adaptations corrupt the imagination (picture Harry Potter, not Daniel Radcliffe), book trailers — videos for would-be bestsellers — were inevitable. Is this bad? Good? Silly? “I think on the whole they’r...

Picture Shiloh Jolie-Pitt with a tail. That’s how upset we are by exquisite gadgets saddled with grotesque cords, crass stands and clunky charging bricks. “A strip was fine when we just had lamps. Now we have all these interestingly shape...

Ellicott City, Md., stay-at-home dad Adam Newcomer, 31, talked with Express about the glamorous lives of D.C. househusbands. » EXPRESS: Is “househusband” a perjorative? » NEWCOMER: I prefer “trophy husband” myself....

“WHEN HISTORIANS LOOK back at ancient Rome, they point to the sport of watching lions eat Christians as a sure sign of that mighty culture’s slide into depravity and decadence. If they tried that today, the lions would all die of HEART AT...

“WAS ‘GOT SMURF’ taken? Why not ‘Smurf Matters’? Or ‘Just Smurf It’? or an obvious play on another corporate slogan that’s 20 years old now?” — Filmdrunk.uproxx.com finds much fault with the...

“THIS SEEMS LIKE a great recipe for a riot: New York Times Arts & Leisure cover boy Drake playing a free show in the rap capital of the world on the day his sure-to-be-No.1 ‘Thank Me Later’ hits stores.” — Blogs.vil...

“IT’S NOT JUST a kiss but a political statement contra one of the nation’s most august publications: Newsweek, which argued a few weeks back that the out-Hayes could not convincingly play a straight man.” — Mediaite.com ...

Did you know that “funk” has several different meanings? We were hoping that “word with several meanings” had some fun term ending in “-nym,” but turns out that’s just what words are. Anyway, if you aren̵...

WHEN PRESENTED WITH INSIGHT DRIVESHARP — software that purports to cut one’s risk of a car crash in half — we fully expected an extremely boring version of “Grand Theft Auto.” Not so! DriveSharp (PC or Mac, $139, Positsc...

» “IT’S UPTON SINCLAIR and ‘The Jungle’ all over again, except that only 90 minutes of your attention are required.” Theslowcook.com thinks everyone should see “Food, Inc.,” but adds, “Too bad mos...

» “IF YOU ARE a passenger in a train and that train stops to let new people on, please be a peach and move closer to the center of the car.” “I can assure you that nobody needs to tell me that blogging about the D.C. Metro sys...

DROP THE F-BOMB at the cocktail party, and watch the conversation wither. We speak, of course, of “feminism,” an idea considered progressive by those before us — a fierce belief in the need to fight for a woman’s rights. Once ...

“APPARENTLY, VERSES LIKE ‘McCain don’t belong in any chair unless he’s paralyzed’ haven’t really made the Obama campaign happy.” idolator.com reacts to the obama camp’s recent denouncement of the lyrics...

THE MOST FASCINATING thing about Pop‘s Lip Lust ($13, Sephora) lipsticks are that they are “infused with natural food flavorings for yummy taste.” While we tried only Petal Pink — maybe Dewy Toffee had more tang — we con...