| | | Women's Funding Network Sex-Trafficking Study Is Junk Science BY NICK PINTO  Attorneys representing Craigslist told Congress last Sept. 15 that the ubiquitous web classifieds site was closing its adult section. Under intense scrutiny from the government and crusading advocacy groups, as well as state attorneys general, owner Craig Newmark memorably applied the label "Censored" in his classifieds where adult advertising once appeared. During the same September hearing of a subcommittee of the House Judiciary, members of Congress listened to vivid and chilling accounts regarding underage prostitution. The congressmen heard testimony from half a dozen nonprofit executives and law-enforcement officials. But the most alarming words of the day came from Deborah Richard... more >>
| | | | | | | | Sharon Van Etten's 'Epic' Win BY NED RAGGETT  When Sharon Van Etten plays Detroit Bar on Saturday evening, the New York-based, New Jersey- and Kentucky-raised performer will be taking another step in what has been both a hectic tour schedule and a meteoric rise. Having recently returned from a European tour opening for the National, she's due to complete sessions for her third album in the next few months, not to mention summer shows, festiv... more >> | | | | | | | | Alessa In Laguna Beach Not Alessa Version of the Original BY EDWIN GOEI  I had not a single shred of doubt that the third and newest Cucina Alessa was going to be as good as the others. Even before it opened, I likened Alessandro Pirozzi to the James Cameron of OC Italian food—the rare auteur who can top his first blockbuster with an even-better sequel. The Cucina Alessa in Huntington Beach is Pirozzi's Terminator 2: higher-budget, bigger, grander than his first... more >> | | | | | | | | HBO's 'Mildred Pierce' Raises Cain BY J. HOBERMAN  This week's big movie may be found on TV. Arch-independent filmmaker Todd Haynes makes a characteristically sidelong move toward the mainstream with his five-part miniseries Mildred Pierce, which starts this Sunday on HBO. Haynes, the most academic yet mass-culture-minded of U.S. indie directors, began his career in the late Reagan era with an unauthorized Karen Carpenter biopic, enacted by a ca... more >> | | | | | | | | Heard Mentality ? In a vlog aired on his show Monday night, Conan said he's "pretty mad at this Rebecca Black person" for ripping off his song, "Thursday." It does seem a little fishy, don't you think? ... Navel Gazing ?"The Henrys," as Henry T. Nicholas (right) and Henry Samueli are known, had their billionaire asses saved in 2009 when a federal judge accused the prosecution of misconduct and eventually dropped... Stick a Fork In It You might be thinking to yourself, that Eva Longoria? She has a cook book? Isn't Bree Van de Kamp, Marcia Cross' character, the model of domesticity on that show? Admittedly, I... | | | | |
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