You know what hacked me off recently? A twisted little weasel who, on his MySpace page, calls himself King Dallas I (as in the first).
We have cops in this city working 16 to 20 hours a day trying to solve the Dec. 13 assassination-style killings of Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma, 31, and Kiran Kumar Allam, 33, two LSU graduate students from India. More...

On a recent trip to the toy store to buy a last-minute birthday gift for a friend, my 4-year-old had a massive meltdown. There are no other words for it -- crying, hitting, ugly words. And why, you might ask. Did some other child hit her? Of course not, she wanted a $10 toy, and I said, "Not today." More...

On their ironically named album In the Future, British Columbia's Black Mountain creates rock as heavy as their name -- sludgy Sabbath riffs, lysergic keyboards and everything -- wielding every classic rock cliché with a postmodernist's accuracy. More...

If you missed last week's column, check out my full review of There Will Be Blood right here. I mention it again because it has only been showing in Baton Rouge for two weeks, and many of you may not have gotten the chance to see this amazing film, which is likely to clean up at the Oscars come Feb. 24. More...