I'm a theater writer for a weekly entertainment magazine. This allows me to combine three of my top interests: theater, magazines, and judging.
In my copious free time, I like pub quizzes, indie rock shows, comics, the Cubs, the Bears, college sports, and collecting smart and funny friends.
I am, as they say, all over the place.
theatre, movies, television, journalism, media, comic books, baseball, politics, Amy Sedaris, college sports, Arkansas Razorbacks, the mystery of the BCS rankings, failed southern ladies, crossword puzzles, internet, Entertainment Weekly, the New Yorker, general geekdom
Ryan Adams, Kristofer Astrom, Beastie Boys, Brendan Benson, Beta Band, Bloc Party, Blur, Brandtson, Brother Ali, Jeff Buckley, Death Cab for Cutie, Ani Difranco, Digable Planets, Dixie Chicks, Nick Drake, Ella & Louis, the Features, Fischerspooner, Radney Foster, Jeffrey Foucault, Franz Ferdinand, Gomez, The Gossip, Ben Harper, Emmylou Harris, Hot Hot Heat, Indigo Girls, Interpol, Jay-Z, Jayhawks, Jurassic 5, Kinks, Libertines, Sondre Lerche, Luscious Jackson, John Mayer, MF Doom, Andrew Morgan, Mos Def, Old 97's, Gram Parsons, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Philosopher Kings, Pretenders, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, The Rapture, Damien Rice, Josh Rouse, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Snow Patrol, Spoon, Subways, Matthew Sweet, Justin Timberlake, McCoy Tyner, Rufus Wainwright, Wilco, the occasional showtune
Volver, Eternal Sunshine, Mean Girls, Shattered Glass, Lost in Translation, Waiting for Guffman, Brick, The Philadelphia Story, Moonstruck, Royal Tenenbaums, You Can Count on Me, Raising Arizona, Charade, High Fidelity, His Girl Friday, Living Out Loud, Playing by Heart, Wonder Boys, Steel Magnolias, Airplane, Princess Bride, Kicking & Screaming, Clue, Straight Talk
Scrubs, Venture Bros., Arrested Development, Project Runway, Cubs baseball, Family Guy, Daily Show, Sports Night, Strangers with Candy, Popular, Sex and the City, The Simpsons, Ben Stiller Show, Two of a Kind (guilty pleasure), What I Like About You (ditto), MST3K, The State, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Murder She Wrote, All My Children
Flesh and Blood, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Summerland, Bird by Bird, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady, Lucky, Ragtime, Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, Roger Angell, Douglas Adams, Nick Hornby, Stephen McCauley, Joan Hess, Encyclopedia Brown, The Monster at the End of This Book
Madeline Kahn