Entertainment

Yahoo produces the occasional original mini-movie videos. The series is serialized and 6-10 minute episodes are released every daily over a period of days. Tom Hanks produced “Electric City” for Yahoo. It’s a post-apocalyptic animated series that featured an all-star line up for voice work: Tom Hanks, Holland Taylor, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tara Stong (Twilight Sparkle […]

Mike Birbiglia is a contributor to This American Life. I heard his Moth routine where describes his REM sleep disorder and how it affected his life. This disorder is characterized by the person acting out what he is dreaming. Usually the dream is about being chased while the dreamer tries to run away. The movie is

Hi, my name is JudyAnn. I’m a This American Life addict. <Hi JudyAnn> On my e-reader: David Rakoff’s Half Empty On my i-pod: David Sedaris’s Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Went to the Mike Birbiglia movie Sleepwalk with Me On this week’s Prairie Home Companion, Ira Glass was a guest There was a

In my post-anesthesia haze of my shoulder surgery, I began watching the 1997-2002 Sci-Fi series Lexx on NetFlix. IMBD describe the series as A group of desperate fugitives from an interplanetary tyranny find themselves in control of a massively powerful starship. Wow, it was so much more. It was silly, it was sci-fi, it was

<Sigh> While listening to Diana Krall at the Santa Barbara Bowl last Sunday night, I kept sighing with overwhelmed feelings. As she played the piano and elicited so much music from the one instrument, I turned to DH and said “THAT’S how you play the piano.” I saw Diana Krall at Gainey Winery in the