It’s hard to be a black guy on Saturday Night Live. There’s no splitting the workload — if a skit calls for someone playing Denzel Washington, that’s you. Kanye West? You. They want a skit featuring Jay-Z, Eddie Murphy, and President Barack Obama? Well that’s you, you, and you, baby…

You know, Mary and Joseph didn’t know where they were going on Christmas Day either. They just followed a star and the songs of angels until they ended up somewhere in the desert. Your adventure to the 15th Annual Mary X-Mas rave may be similar: You’ll look for a star…

We know you’ve dreamed of it: being a superhero, beating up bad guys, saving the day. Until recently, it was a delusion as unattainable as getting rid of that paunch you built up over the holidays. But now there’s The Marvel Experience, an interactive tour through a super-hero universe that…

The Phoenix Coyotes are dead. We’d say good riddance — in 17 years, the old ‘Yotes only won two playoff games — but this new hockey club, the Arizona Coyotes, isn’t doing much better. At about a third of the way through the season, our guys are in the bottom…

You don’t so much watch a Warren Miller film as experience it. You feel the crunch of the powder, hear the swish of the skis. Your stomach drops as you descend thousands of feet across icy mountains in seconds, then take to the sky on parachutes moments later. No Turning…

Somewhere out there, we imagine, is the ugliest sweater ever created. Its heinous, misshapen form was lovingly brought to life by wrinkly arthritic hands that knitted each clash-colored thread, jingly bell, and strobe-light reindeer nose just so. The back causes car accidents; the front scares children.That’s the sweater you’ll need…

You could drive your kids around your neighborhood this holiday season, oohing and aahing at the lame little lawn displays Jimbo from up the street put together. Or you could take your children to ZooLights, which features nearly 4 million LED bulbs shaped into luminous versions of monkeys, lions, peacocks,…

You may have heard that the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear. Wrong. The real best way? Watching other people sing loud for all to hear — especially if they’re also performing a broadway version of Elf, the 2003 Will Ferrell movie about…

This season’s Phoenix Suns are a hard team to figure out. They beat the Spurs, last year’s resounding winner of the NBA championship. A few weeks later, they took down the Golden State Warriors, who had zero losses until their visit to Phoenix. But the Suns also lost to Sacramento…

It’s impossible to hear the name “Charlie Murphy” and not picture a be-dreadlocked Dave Chappelle, dressed as a coked-out Rick James, yelling and kicking as he defiles Murphy’s couch. Or Prince, all mascara and jacket tassels, destroying Murphy and his crew in a game of pick-up basketball, then making everyone…

A lot of people mistakenly think Nick Swardson is gay. It’s understandable. He played Terry Bernadino, a gay, roller-blading male prostitute, in Reno 911. And Hector, an obsessive fan who stalks a male figure skater, in Blades of Glory. And a gay robot in the made-for-TV movie, Gay Robot. Plenty…