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Last night, the incomparable crime drama "The Wire came to an end. Some people got lost in the flood, some people got out all right. But one in particular breaks my heart. If you saw it, you know what I mean. Thoughts? (The New York Times' take.)On another note, is...

The wonderful David C. Tucker interviewed me for the DeKalb County Public Library blog today. How nice! Also up today, my review of "Mozart's Ghost" for the San Francisco Chronicle.Soundtrack for today: The HorrorPops' "Heading for the Disco."Shout out for the day to...

Or trying to, anyway. Seeing this makes me think others have the same problems with procrastination. (With thanks to Karen.)

Say goodbye to the gangbanger girls. This week, we've lost Snoop as well as Margaret B. Jones. Both were fictional, but only one was a work of art.

Well, it's that time of the evening here in lovely Cambridge, Mass., when the day's wet snow/freezing rain storm has begun to glaze the sidewalks, turning our charming brick sidewalks into so many uneven picturesque death traps. But even though I learned, yet again,...

That's my take on Michael Stanley's new "A Carrion Death," the first in a proposed series featuring the absolutely cuddly Detective Kubu. But even if Kubu (a nickname that means "hippo" in his native Setswana) loves opera, good food, and his wife, a la Donna Leon's...

Has anyone else out there thought that the lyrics to the Foo Fighters' song "The Pretender" go: "One of these things is not like the other"? Dave Grohl as Cookie Monster?I mean, as we used to say in lit class, contrast and compare. Am I right, people?

I know I'm associated with cats, and I do love me some felines. But when I was much younger, I also had a serious thing for toads and lizards (not snakes, I like legs). I still remember my pet toad, Dyatt (pronounced "Dwight") fondly. And so, for the hidden...

Jennifer Ryser of Wetumpka, Alabama, won the right to name a cat in the upcoming Theda Krakow mystery #4 at the Murder on the Menu silent auction, sponsored by Friends of Wetumpka Library, by making a donation to the Crime Lab Project. Thank you, Jennifer! And here's...

Think Falco crossed with the old "Meow Mix" commercial...