Entertainment

Can’t help falling in love

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It’s the early 1960s, and Priscilla Ann Beaulieu is just 14 years old. She doesn’t have any friends or hobbies, just the day-in, day-out...

Make way for Aladdin

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With a pen and a blank page, an animator has the ability to create whatever his imagination can concoct — maybe a flying carpet...

Cage shines as corrupt New Orleans cop

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"Anything’s possible in this storm!” says the man with the badge in Werner Herzog’s delirious Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, a true feat of daring and one of the craziest films of the year. It’s a very loose remake of 1992’s Bad Lieutenant, in which ...

Bullet with a change for rockers Nonpoint

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To put it mildly, Nonpoint went through a major transition heading into its seventh album when it replaced two band members — guitarist Zach Broadrick and bassist Ken “KB” MacMillan — with three new recruits, lead guitarist Dave Lizzio, rhythm guitarist Rasheed ...

For Brother Ali, it’s time to occupy

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Brother Ali really didn’t need any more political cred, but...

Gibson’s latest rant could doom his Hollywood career

LOS ANGELES — As Mel Gibson's legal and publicity problems mount, his prospects for a future in mainstream Hollywood grow dimmer...

The Young Festivarians

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By day four it had become our nightly routine. About 6 p.m. we'd have some dinner. Then we'd settle in to catch one of the last three acts of an indescribable day of music, sunshine, rain, hail, new friends and just about anything unpredictable enough to be part of ...

Suspension of disbelief

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In late March, all 20 or so of the staff and associate artists on Local Theater Company’s team huddled together virtually on Zoom for...

Violence that bores

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In a new introduction to the eight-part comic book series Kick-Ass, which was created in tandem with the film version, Image Comics co-founder Rob Liefeld describes the chief strength of Mark Millar’s superhero lark as extolling “hyper-real super-violence,” “so far...

United in praise

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At the end of the first Iron Man, when Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) popped up to mention “The Avengers Initiative,” it launched what...

Menomena slices and dices another great album

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Few bands have ever had the relationship with their music that Menomena has. Few other bands have pushed the envelope without going out of their way like Menomena has. In fact, it’s safe to say that there have been few bands like Menomena, and on their latest album, ...

All are welcome

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The art of filmmaking can be tedious, admits director and producer Susan Polis Schutz. Projects can take years to complete, and after finishing her...