When Louis C.K. said he’d grossed more than $1 million off his self-released, $5 stand-up special, “Live at the Beacon Theater,” the question wasn’t “Would others fo...

Growing older and still loving punk rock aren’t mutually exclusive conditions. But at some point, the admiration usually shifts to listening in the privacy of your home or o...

My girlfriend is constantly making negative comments about herself that she wants me to disagree with. It’s so frequent that I’ve started to ignore it. She criticizes her ...

Coffee, I’ve learned, is a hot topic. After last week’s column on my encounter with a guy who wouldn’t stop sipping from his mug on Metro, I got emails, calls, tweets an...

Reese Witherspoon, why do you do this to me? I do not understand. I mean, I get that you have a mortgage and some kids, and that everyone likes money, but you seem to have for...

After a brief hiatus, “The Walking Dead” returned over the weekend with the second half of Season 2 (AMC, Sundays at 9 p.m.) and a promise from the new show runner to “a...

Watching “Key and Peele,” Comedy Central’s latest attempt to replicate the success of “Chappelle’s Show,” I couldn’t help but think about how long it’s been si...

I trust no current label more than ECM Records, in part because I know what I’m getting to a certain degree. Since 1969, German producer Manfred Eicher has honed his very sp...

I’m 27 and having trouble finding what I really like in a guy. I can enjoy a guy’s company, and everything goes great for a short while, and then I seem to lose interest o...

It wasn’t one sip. I would have let that go. It was sip after sip after sip. So I turned to the guy sitting next to me downing his coffee on a Red Line train to Shady Grove,...

In “W.E,” out Friday, two story lines compete to see which can be more boring. Remarkably, they both win! The dual tales are those of Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough, w...

In college, I was a serial egg-and-cheese sandwich eater. To me, a toasted English muffin filled with a fried egg and melted American cheese was the perfect hot breakfast trea...

Little people are … oh, please, forgive me … having a Big TV Moment this month. A little person competes on CBS’ “Survivor” (Feb. 15). TLC airs a special edition...

I never planned on visiting “Cougar Town.” When the series premiered in 2009, the idea of a sitcom about Courteney Cox chasing younger men had all the appeal of watching J...

My ex is starting to call me again. He calls me up and starts to play a Jimmy Eat World song at full blast that he used to say made him think of me. Afterward, I hear three lo...