John Goodman

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 9/27/13

For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.

Inside Llewyn Davis: The Coen Brothers' Most Moving Film Since A Serious Man

Rightbloggers' Scandal Spring Gives Way to Summer of Same Old, Same Old

The recent round of DC scandals has been good for rightbloggers -- for about a month they've been devoted to plumping up Benghazi, IRS, NSA, and other controversies, and have succeeded in knocking down the President's approval ratings. High fives all around! But seasons change, and Scandal Spring i ... More >>

Pixar Bangs Out More Superior Kids Fare with Monsters University, And Nothing More

The Internship is Worse Than Fetching Coffee

This Better Be for Credit

Summer 2013 Film Guide

Entitled Fraternity Dicks Return to The Hangover Part III

The Best Non-Nominated Performances This Year

Not to take anything away from the fine nominees for this year's Oscar's acting categories, but there were five people--all men, it seems--who I feel were robbed of a nod, and I'm here to graciously present them with La Daily Musto nominations to make up for that. You're welcome, guys. They are:

TIFF: Meet the Monsters

From Toronto, a glimpse of this year's most bracing films

MODERN FAMILY

Beware: Nicolas Cage wants your offspring

What Does Being LGBT (Or Wanting to Get Gay Married) Have to Do with Gambling?

Chris Geidner at BuzzFeed has been beating down the path of a fascinating story over this past week, exploring how and why the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force has gotten involved with the issue of gambling in Maryland. His latest post reports that an anonymous source funded a gaming mailer sent to ... More >>

The Voice Talks Chik-Fil-A on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show [AUDIO]

Greetings from Las Vegas, where we are attending the UNITY 2012 journalism diversity conference, along with meetings of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. We called back home this morning to talk to Brian Lehrer on WNYC about Chik-fil-A, the exciting fast food poultry arena for deb ... More >>

Drunkboat

Who Started The Stonewall Riots? I Have An Answer

In 1969, the Stonewall riots--precipitated when cops burst into the famed gay bar and started being their usually abusive selves--defined the modern gay movement. Well, every eldergay on earth claims to have not only been there, but to have started the riot--even more people than claim to have seen ... More >>

Nine Food TV Shows We'd Love To See

​How did food television become so boring and predictable? Umpteenth season of Top Chef? Yawn. Endless cupcake wars? Yawn. Paula Deen pouring more butter into the cake? Yawn. Guy Fieri tucking into another giant hamburger? Zzzzzzzzz. Well, the time has come to invent new types of food-themed s ... More >>

The Artist: Silence Is Golden?

​A new silent movie about the heyday of silent movies, The Artist has crisp black and white photography, swelling music, and a likable cast. At the New York Film Festival showing the other day, star Jean Dujardin explained the filming process:

SATC for Tom Colicchio Fans in BearCity

Emergo! Percepto! Illusion-o! The William Castle Circus Comes to Town

Emmy Nominations Announced; HBO Maintains Primetime Stranglehold

We will never own one of these. ​Whee, the 62nd Annual (Primetime!) Emmys have been announced. There aren't that many surprises: As usual, HBO rocks, as does Mad Men, True Blood, 30 Rock, Glee, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tina Fey. Losties may get another chance to see the objects of their affect ... More >>

More Songs About Treason And Pork: Here Are Eight Talking Heads Tracks That'd Also Work Great In Political-Campaign Ads

We've been here before. So yesterday former Talking Heads frontman and current omni-artistic silver fox David Byrne dropped a $1 million dollar lawsuit on Florida Governor and embattled Senatorial candidate Charlie Crist, who'd used the Heads' 1985 romp "Road to Nowhere" in a campaign ad without a ... More >>

On Treme's (Possibly Redeemable) Annoying Characters And Fraught Quest For "Musical Authenticity"

Don't write Steve Zahn off yet, folks​David Simon's Treme is, as has been mentioned far and wide, clearly not going to be The Wire. Sure, it's dealing with rampant corruption in a major American city and the frustration of human beings forced to deal with that corruption, doing so with an unca ... More >>

People With Money: Think Banks, Not Suitcases

​Why are suitcases full of money so fraught with trouble?

Here Is the Trailer for Treme, David Simon's New Show About Post-Katrina New Orleans

Now with actual humans, after an initial zombie instrument preview--including Wire stalwarts Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters (that'd be Bunk and Lester), The Corner vet Khandi Alexander, and some incongruous new additions, namely Steve Zahn (?!) and John Goodman (!!). "Zahn will play a dancer, DJ ... More >>

Avatar at the Oscars: What are the Odds?

​The whole Avatarization meme, with Photoshop-savvy fans recruiting icons (Hugh Laurie, Lil Wayne, Angelina Jolie, John Goodman, Sasha Grey, Mr. Bean et al) into the Na'vi tribe -- peaked around Valentine's Day with the poignant spectacle of Palestinian activists protesting the Israeli barrier ... More >>

SLACKER HOLIDAY

The Dude abides for Thanksgiving

Maura Johnston Says Farewell to Idolator

​It was always going to be a thankless task, replacing Maura Johnston at Idolator--she was fluent, smart, informed, and took the thankless task of wading into the morass of pop kudzu on the internet seriously. It was her sensibility that garnered whatever readership the site had. Now that her ... More >>

THE DUDE ABIDES

Go bowling with some serious slackers

Godot's Worth the Weight, The Philanthropist Donates Little, 9 to 5 Shows More Heart Than Art

Matt Aselton's Gigantic Another for the Indie Comedy Heap

Spring Guide: David Levine Messes with Imperfection in Venice Saved: A Seminar

The Coen Brothers Were Never Better Than with Barry Sonnenfeld

The Gruesome Threesome showcased at the MOMA

Speed Racer on a Fast Track to Nowhere

It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski's souped-up, tricked-out cartoon adaptation

Freshman Orientation

'Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School'

Telly Tubby

Famished for more sitcom stardom, Alley eats her way to the top, one fat joke at a time

The Half-Life of Celebrity

Let them eat stars: Pop-culture vultures circle the flesh of the semi-rich and famous on VH1

It's All Over Now

Legends of the Fall

Wanna Be Like You

The Song's the Thing

And Bears, Oh My!

Name That 'Toon

Where the Mild Things Are

Theater

Hot Tickets

Rich & Heinous

Striking Distance

New York’s Indie Filmmakers Prepare for a Summer Shutdown

Crouching Pussycats, Hidden Gems

Moviegoers Avoid Big-Budget Pitfalls

There's No Place Like 'Oz'

Three Sheets in the Wind

Through a Mirror Darkly

Developing Dr. Seuss