South Park  is one of the most important, influential, and consistently brilliant television shows of all time. It’s been around for 27 years and, despite what some people might think, it never went anywhere, never lost its bite, and never stopped being relevant. Some folks are just noticing it again because Season 27 came roaring out of the gate like a flamethrower aimed directly at Donald Trump , Kristi Noem , ICE , and the general state of American politics and culture. Th

Katherine Bigelow, Me, Jamie Lee Curtis. 1990. I was just a bit happy. Jamie Lee Curtis is one of my favorite actresses of all time. No question. Period. End of sentence. She was my first massive crush as a teenager. I’m talkin’ about full-blown, head-over-heels, heart-goes-thump-thump level stuff, from the moment I laid eyes on her in Halloween  in 1978 when I was 13 years old. I mean, come on. The minute she stepped on screen as Laurie Strode, I was done. Cooked. Smoked. H

There are cult shows. There are funny shows. There are shows that changed the game. Police Squad!   is all three. In fact, I’d go a step further, Police Squad!  is the single funniest television series of all time. That’s right. The funniest. Not The Office , not Arrested Development , not even SCTV  or The Simpsons . Nope. Police Squad! , six episodes, that’s it, is pure Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker (ZAZ) perfection. And it changed the way comedy worked on television. Forever. Or

As a lifelong Chicagoan, I’ve been visiting the Museum of Science and Industry since I was a little kid—back when you could barely see over the exhibit signs and still got a thrill from pressing buttons just to see what happens. And honestly? Not much has changed. It’s still my favorite museum in a city packed with world-class institutions. The Art Institute might be an artistic holy site, and the Field Museum has that iconic dinosaur and oodles of ancient wonders. But for

In honor of the latest Jurassic World  installment ( Rebirth , of course—because branding), it would’ve been too easy to jump into a list of badass movie dinosaurs: your T-Rexes, your Raptors, your stop-motion Harryhausen marvels. And I will get to that—hell, send me your favorite dino flicks at nick@nickdigilio.com , and let’s do that list. But first, I need to talk about Dinosaurs . No, not the ones that chase screaming scientists in khaki shorts. I’m talking about the 199

The Return We Deserve Start TV , you beautiful, beautiful network—you’ve done it. You’ve given us back Gilmore Girls  on daily broadcast television, and in doing so, you’ve restored a piece of my heart I didn’t even realize was missing. As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of one of the greatest shows in television history, Gilmore Girls  is now airing every day again, and this milestone is as momentous as any Emmy win, any revival, any reboot. For fans like me—obsessi