Rebecca Zumoff

SAT 11/19With an abundance of screenwriting requests, a plethora of awards, and multitudes of speaking engagements, it seems that everyone wants a piece of Suzan-Lori Parks. She was the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama with her dark comedy Topdog/Underdog, which is about two brothers, Lincoln...

11/17-12/4Bad dates blow chunks. Whether it's the icky chick who talked about her colonoscopy over dinner or the gross guy who said he wanted to "feel your belly button from the inside out," there's always one meet-up that makes you want to throw up. In the comedy Bad Dates, opening...

MON 11/14When Jethro Tull won the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance in 1989, beating out contenders like AC/DC and Metallica, a lot of people raised their eyebrows. But nobody was surprised by the controversy; Jethro Tull has been making people scratch their heads for years. Here's a classic...

MON 11/7If you value your privacy, don't drop a love letter anywhere near Davy Rothbart. The founder of FOUND magazine has been scooping up people's discarded letters, journals and postcards for years and publishing them in the magazine or posting them on his Web site, www.foundmagazine.com. And it's not just...

11/3-11/26Maybe NASA and Michael Jackson should fall to their knees and kiss the feet of collaborative artists Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, whose "Apollo Prophecies Project" has made moonwalking cool again. Kahn/Selesnick's massive "Project" portrays a fantastical world in which astronauts from 1960s and '70s space missions are mistaken for...