
Can Victoria Jackson return from the fringe?
After blasting gays, Muslims and Obama, can SNL vet Victoria Jackson really return to Hollywood? She hopes so By MARK GUARINO | SALON Sunday, Mar 10, 2013 06:00 AM CDT Victoria Jackson’s career was nonexistent. So when the daffy blonde comedian who sang and strummed her [...]
Rap’s killer new rhymes
Four days after Sandy Hook, Interscope drops the debut album of Chief Keef, who police say may be linked to murder By MARK GUARINO | Salon Chief Keef, the biggest new star in Chicago hip-hop, releases his major-label debut,“Finally Rich,” from Interscope on Tuesday, and the [...]
Is Taylor Swift being taken too seriously?
The last decade produced enough pop trash to fill a landfill. Which may be why we're so eager for Swift to be great By MARK GUARINO | Salon Pop stars tasked to deliver adolescent angst have rarely been so subdued as Taylor Swift. She is 22 [...]
Fear the almighty wrath: Five natural disasters “caused” by gays
"Biblical scholar" John McTernan is the latest to accuse them of causing massive destruction. He won't be the last By MARK GUARINO | Salon Look at what the gays have done now. Hurricane Sandy is just the latest weather calamity being blamed on gay people. Who [...]
Stephen Colbert is Middle-earth-bound
The Comedy Central host has been cast in "The Hobbit" trilogy, but as who? We play casting director By MARK GUARINO | Salon Not since the time Bob Dylan showed up in an episode of “Dharma & Greg” will a star cameo be as bewildering as [...]
“Glengarry Glen Ross” revival shows us how low we’ve sunk
Written during Ronald Reagan’s first presidential bid, Mamet's greedy men almost seem quaint in our impenitent era By MARK GUARINO | SALON Maybe it’s the carpet-bombing cursing or maybe it’s the blunt poetry of the Chicago streets, but David Mamet’s 1984 Pulitzer winner “Glengarry Glen Ross” [...]