CRITIQUES AND REVIEWS

The AV Club TV Club:
"American Idol"
"Beauty and the Geek"
"90210" premiere
"Privileged" premiere
Review of the "Stylista" pilot
Review of "Summer Heights High" premiere
Review of the "Flu Shot" episode of "30 Rock"
"United States of Tara" TV Club
"Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List"
Weeds: "Van Nuys"
"More to Love"
TV Club: Entourage: "No More Drama"
TV Club Top Chef "Vivre Las Vegas"
TV Club Entourage "Security Briefs"
"SNL" and "Weekend Update Thursday"
Review: Saturday Night Live: Megan Fox/U2
TV Club: "Saturday Night Live:" Joseph Gordn-Levitt and Dave Matthews Band
" TV Club: Saturday Night Live: Blake Lively/Rihanna
TV Club: "Saturday Night Live: James Franco/Muse"
"SNL: Jon Hamm/Michael Buble"
"Saturday Night Live:" Ashton Kutcher/Them Crooked Vultures"
Review of "Saturday Night Live"'s Zach Galifianakis/Vampire Weekend episode
TV Club Review of the Jude Law/Pearl Jam episode of "SNL"
TV Club review of the Ryan Phillippe/Ke$ha episode of "SNL"
TV Club review of the Gabourey Sidibe/MGMT episode of "SNL"
TV Club Review: "Losing It With Jillian"
Review of RuPaul's Drag U: "Tomboy Meets Girl"
Review of My Boys: "Addition by Subtraction" and "Gourmets and Confused"
TV Club review: "Thintervention"
Review of Booky Wook 2 by Russell Brand
TV Club: The Big C
TV Club: "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret"
TV Club Review: Bridalplasty
Review of Rob Chapman's A Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett
Susan Cheever's Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography
Tv Club Review: Heavy
TV Club Review: RuPaul's Drag Race
Review of the show Gigolos
Review of Parks and Recreation episode "Jerry's Painting"
Review of Thoroughbred: Born to Run
TV Club Review: "Love Handles: Couples in Crisis"
Review: Whisker Wars on IFC
Review of The Franchise: A Season With The San Francisco Giants
Review of the "Car Periscope" episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm
Review of Saved
Review of Saved
Review of The Love We Make
Review: "Pop-Up Video"
Review of 24 Hour Catwalk
Review of American Stuffers

Bridge Magazine:
Book review: Autopsy of an Engine

Centerstage Chicago:

Restaurant and bar reviews: Atwood Cafe, Cherry Red, Deleece, Four Moon Tavern, The Green Room, Holiday Club Uptown, Il Fornello, Kit Kat Club, Liquid Kitty, Nick's Uptown, North Pond Cafe, Orange, Rhapsody, Whiskey Sky

Daily Candy:

"Gem Dandy"
"The Secret Garden"
"Sucks to Be You"

EMusic:
Review of Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt
Review: "When You Are Engulfed by Flames," by David Sedaris
Review of Augusten Burroughs' "Dry"
Review of "Too Fat to Fish" by Artie Lange
Review of "The Invention of Air" by Steven Johnson
Review: The Flight of the Conchords Radio Series
Review: Review of Neil Gaiman's Coraline
Review: Cheever by Blake Bailey
Review of Steve Martin's Shopgirl
Review of Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall
Guilty Pleasures bookshelf
Review of Yann Martel's Life of Pi
Review of Frank Bruni's Born Round
Review of Julia Powell's audiobook Cleaving
Review: Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project
Review: Written by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Review of Star by Peter Biskind
Review of Columbine, by Dave Cullen
Review of The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
Review of Ben MacIntyre's Operation Mincemeat
Review of Sloane Crosley's How Did You Get This Number
Review of Chelsea Handler's My Horizontal Life

Review of This Book is Overdue! by Marilyn Johnson
Review of Jeff Sharlet's C Street
Review of Keith Richards' Life
Review of Patton Oswalt's Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
Review of Portia de Rossi's Unbearable Lightness
Review of Spousonomics by Jenny Anderson and Paula Szuchman
Review of This Is An Audiobook by Demetri Martin
Review of Steven Tyler's Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?
Review of Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts
<Review of Simon Pegg's Nerd Do Well
Review of Ben Mezrich's Sex on the Moon

Review of Dick Van Dyk's My Lucky Life
Review of Roger Ebert's Life Itself
Review of Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Review of Tom Perrotta's The Leftovers

Flak Mag:

Review: "Andy Richter Controls the Universe"
"The Hollywood Diet"
"Listerine Oral Care Strips"
Super Bowl XXXVI Ads
Super Bowl XXXVI halftime show review
"Versace Ad Campaign"
"Why We Watch 'Sex and the City'"

LA Times Showtracker:
"America's Next Top Model" (blogging and interviews with the eliminated contestants, Cycles 10, 11, 12 and 13)
"ER"
"Dexter"
Project Runway
"A Smart Show about Dumb Stuff"
"The Office" (including blogging the first ever "Office" convention in Scranton)
"So You Think You Can Dance"
Showtracker review: Season 6 Premiere of "America's Got Talent"

NewCity Chicago:

No Great Mischief, by Alistair MacLeod
Coney, by Amram Ducovny
Dreamscape, by Graham Joyce

Popmatters (Book Reviews):

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
As I Live and Breathe, by Jamie Weisman, MD
John Follain's City of Secrets
Complications, by Atul Gawande
Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford
Dorothy Parker's Elbow, edited by Kim Addonizio and Cheryl Dumesnil
Edison and the Electric Chair, by Mark Essig
Fool's Gold by Jane S. Smith
The Future Housewives of America, by Laurie Graham
Henderson'S Spear, by Ronald Wright
History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture by Georges Minois
I Almost Killed George Burns! And Other Gut-Splitting Tales From the World's Greatest Comedy Event by Andy Nulman
In Therapy We Trust: America's Obsessions with Self-Fulfillment by Eva S. Moskowitz
The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt
Media Unlimited, by Todd Gitlin
Mr. Timothy, by Louis Bayard
No Lifeguard on Duty, by Janice Dickinson
The School of Beauty and Charm by Melanie Sumner
A Ship Made of Paper, by Scott Spencer
Skipping Towards Gomorrah, by Dan Savage
Snobbery: The American Version by Joseph Epstein
Whose Improv Is It Anyway? Beyond Second City by Amy E. Seham

Time Out Chicago:

Review: War Reporting for Cowards

TV.com

" The Celebrity Apprentice: For Shame!"