Entertainment
Holding court
Justice is served in Sisters in Law, a hilarious and captivating play about the relationship between the first two female U.S. Supreme Court justices,...
An embarrassment of riches
Every year is a great year for the movies, but when was the best? Was it 1939, the year Hollywood gave us The Wizard...
Erasing creation
It’s 5 a.m., and the city is still. Under the Sun doesn’t open until the afternoon, but among the empty chairs sits artist Bryce...
‘Walking Dead’ War: Creator Robert Kirkman Sued By Collaborator
Robert Kirkman, the famed comic book writer who helped create AMC's hit zombie series The Walking Dead...
John Mayer plays the fame game like a champ
I don't own a single John Mayer CD or even a single single...
Record year: Great music in 2012
The state of original music in this country is wonderful. It could be argued that, although corporate-owned mainstream radio has eschewed what’s clearly good, honest music, for what will sell (and what’s released by labels owned by the aforementioned corporations), ...
No one goes it alone
In his landmark study, “From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film,” Siegfried Kracauer put forth the theory that cinema is...
From the terrestrial to the celestial
They conduct themselves like madmen, and explain their behavior by saying that in their thoughts they soar in the most far-off worlds ... Every...
It’s a four-horse race in Oscars’ 10-film field
Here's the dirty little secret about the motion...
You know how artists are
When Kristian Dunn, one half of the instrumental indie-rock duo El Ten Eleven, finished 2018’s Banker’s Hill, he found himself wanting to make shorter...
Something old, something new
If there’s one thing composer Steven Hackman wants you to know about his growing collection of “mash-up” compositions — where he joins celebrated master works from classical artists like Brahms seamlessly with works from contemporary pop culture gods like Radiohead...
