Random Play: The Smiths, “The Queen Is Dead”
Bigmouth strikes again: Robin Monica meets you at the cemetry gates to observe the 25th anniversary of the seminal British album....
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Random Play: Shake Shack
Robin Monica Alexander takes a momentary break from pigging out at the Shake Shack to explain, in the latest "Random Play," why you should pig out there, too....
Random Play: “Angels in America”
The millennium has come and gone, but "Angels in America" is eternal. Robin Monica Alexander retraces its twenty-year history in a new "Random Play."...
Random Play: “Guiding Light” (Part 2)
Like Reva Shayne coming back from the dead, Kelly Stitzel and Robin Monica Alexander aren't quite done with their tribute to the once-great, now-canceled soap....
Random Play: “Guiding Light” (Part 1)
Springfield's lighthouse no longer shines, but memories of Guiding Light, the longest-running soap opera in history, still burn brightly for Kelly Stitzel and Robin Monica Alexander....
Random Play: Yo Majesty
In the latest Random Play, Robin Monica Alexander explains how hip-hop group Yo Majesty is as American as apple f***in' pie....
Random Play: “Born This Way”
Still unsure whether kids are born gay? Robin Monica Alexander spotlights a new blog whose emphatic and adorable response is yes....
Random Play: Vodka
Robin Monica Alexander drinks Stoli and devotes the last Random Play of 2010 to her favorite variety of booze....
Random Play: “The Merchant of Venice”
Robin Monica Alexander loves Shakespeare, but she hates racism more. In the latest Random Play, she asks why we keep making excuses for "The Merchant of Venice."...
Random Play: McRib
Pork, pickles, barbecue sauce and a bun: it's the McRib! And it's back! Robin Monica Alexander analyzes its mysterious appeal in the latest Random Play....
Random Play: Greg Giraldo
Random Play remembers Greg Giraldo, a Harvard Law School grad who put his education to use telling jokes about Viagra, drug addiction, washed-up celebs and fat kids. The world won't...
Random Play: The Hostess Chocodile
Twinkie dipped in chocolate, or dessert of the gods? In her latest Random Play, Robin Monica Alexander sings the praises of the Chocodile....
Random Play: “Joanie Loves Chachi”
In which Robin Monica Alexander, who ingested many illegal substances during her childhood, suffers an LSD flashback to the ill-fated Happy Days spinoff....
Random Play: Jews
Why are Jews so freakin' awesome? Robin Monica Alexander investigates in her latest Random Play....
Random Play: “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top”
Robin Monica Alexander made it nearly 30 years without seeing Oklahoma -- but as she later discovered, it's never too late to discover the joy of a good surrey....
Random Play: “Deadwood”
Join Robin Monica Alexander in a filthy, fascinating world of neurotic gunslingers, psychotic whoremongers, and corpse-eating pigs, won't you?...
Random Play: River Phoenix
The recent rash of celebrity deaths has Robin Monica Alexander thinking of River Phoenix's untimely demise....
Random Play: “The Clan of the Cave Bear”
What's a cave bear, and how many to a clan? We aren't sure, but after reading Robin Monica Alexander's latest column, we want to learn....
Random Play: Monarchy
Like many of you, I went out to the movies during the holidays. Maybe we saw some of the same films…Avatar, right? Sherlock Holmes? And despite the protests of hipsters...
Random Play: Alvin and the Chipmunks
When the 2007 live action-animation hybrid movie of Alvin and the Chipmunks made $60 million in its opening weekend, it took people by surprise. Hadn’t the besweatered musical trio outstayed...
Random Play: Sting (in the ’80s)
There have been a lot of boys, and men, whose pictures I have torn out of magazines for my personal use. The first may have been Michael Jackson, of whom...
Random Play: “Irreconcilable Differences”
Robin Monica Alexander delves into the psychology of guilty pleasures, and recalls her childhood fascination over the movie "Irreconcilable Differences."...
Random Play: “Robotech”
I barely knew him. Yet here I was, on a cold Tuesday night, at his apartment. We had had a drink or two at the bar/lounge/restaurant down the street from...
Random Play: V.C. Andrews, “Flowers in the Attic”
Join our newest writer, Robin Monica Alexander, as she takes you on a genre and era-bouncing trip through pop culture -- today, she looks back at her teenage obsession with...