Please don't think me a shill. Sure, I'm hocking wares, but a shill suggests some kind of con artist, a person selling something you don't need and don't want. Me? I'm selling a DVD. Two, actually.

Attentive readers will recall the announcement in these virtual pages of an impending event sure to electrify the literary bourse, the publication — in just a few weeks now — of my new book The ...

Psychology professor Barbara Held writes about the thin line between humility and self-deprecation and argues that the virtuous golden mean of “truthfulness” is a better way to see humility. Being ...

When you hear the expression “shameless self-promotion,” it probably conjures up visions of someone who draws excess attention to themselves. Going beyond the “humble brag,” in self-promotion people ...

Just in case you doubted that Westword was the foremost authority on dumb shit that happens in the media, know this: We’re such an authority even other media outlets seek our expertise. And when I say ...

I opened my "Re-elect Jon Husted Ohio Secretary of State" literature that arrived in my mailbox on Saturday. Oh wait, it is actually my absentee ballot application. Then why is Husted's name on it no ...

If you’re in the city of New York this Saturday and looking for something to do, you could do worse than heading down to 92Y Tribeca at 200 Hudson St. to observe our own Todd VanDerWerff on a panel of ...

We love art, as you may have noticed, and we also love art galleries, as you may have noticed. This is good, because we are a Bay-Area-focused, art-heavy blog where you should come regularly looking ...

For the third year in a row, the Tucson Weekly was honored with one of the Arizona Newspaper Association’s big awards in the annual Better Newspaper Contest. The Weekly editorial department earned the ...

Republican new media strategist David All showed some love for the Twitter Room on his own feed today, tweeting: Loving The Hill’s Twitter Room: http://twitterroom ...

Eight Tucson Weekly staffers and contributors won 14 awards in the 2005 Arizona Press Club Awards. The results were announced on Saturday, May 6 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. The late Chris Limberis ...