THESE JAPANESE COMICS ARE THE WAY COOL CRAZE

By MAXINE SHEN

MANGA hasn't quite reached sushi-level popularity in the United States yet, but it's a trend on the cusp - and you're sure to be seeing a whole lot of it in the coming months. These are...more >

By JACQUELINE BURT WANG

TODAY SAY UNCLE: Not your average kiddie singalong, a concert by Uncle Rock - a k a Robert Burke Warren, above, former bass player for the Fleshtones - is apt to include odes to a...more >

FRAME THAT MUSEUM VISIT SO THE KIDS WILL LOVE IT

By SARAH SCHMERLER

JUST because you're somebody's parent doesn't mean you don't have needs, too. Adult needs. Cultural needs. Thing is, your kids don't always agree with your plans, do they? No...more >

By KYLE SMITH

A variety of broad comic types - the cheating husband, the geeky loser, the embittered wife - drive into a Los Angeles "Park." Wackiness ensues. Billy Baldwin, Cheri Oteri and...more >

By LOU LUMENICK

CHARLES Nelson Reilly, who died in May, is best remembered as the most flamboyant of TV's original "Hollywood Squares" - which is really saying something on a panel that included Paul...more >

By V.A. MUSETTO

I'VE just received terrible news. It seems my yin (and maybe my yang) isn't what it should be - all because of my love for pancakes smothered in butter and syrup. I discovered my...more >

By V.A. MUSETTO

CRISPIN Glover has two new movies debuting this month. They couldn't be more dissimilar. "Beowulf, " opening today, is expensive Hollywood pap aimed at the multiplex crowd. (Glover...more >

By LOU LUMENICK

I'VE had root canals that were more enjoyable than "Margot at the Wedding," Noah Baumbach's hugely pretentious, ugly and annoying follow-up to "The Squid and the Whale."...;more >

By KYLE SMITH

IF you've seen "Gone With the Wind," you've seen what "Love in the Time of Cholera" isn't. Did "Gone With the Wind" have more than three characters who...more >

By KYLE SMITH

YOU don't go to Brian De Palma for fair and balanced. You go to him for Mi chael Caine in a dress with a dagger, Tony Montana aardvarking his way through a Himalaya of blow, Carrie's hand...more >