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Pew! Pew! Pew! ’Merica!
GI Joe: Retaliation’s script is so horrible, it should be in MoMA. Just like some people can’t stop staring at the world’s ugliest dog, this screenplay is fascinatingly hideous blather. It’s entirely possible the whole script was verbs: “shoot, explode, stab, scream...
Coates: Actually, ‘Accidental Racist’ is just plain racist
Country star Brad Paisley has made waves with a recent song that talks directly about issues of race and understanding. But, Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic writes, the song probably says a little more than Paisley realizes...
Lotus: Cleaning out the grease
We asked Luke Miller, guitarist and one-half of the brother team that comprises the core of the funktronica quartet Lotus, about the flyer we came across in Cleveland last January, while we were in town visiting family. It was a little slice of home, not even so much...
A drama in thriller drag
To quote Public Enemy, “Don’t believe the hype.” To paraphrase the Dead Milkmen, I’m not saying that The Other Place isn’t a good play. It’s a fine play, an all-American play full of good, upstanding people. It’s just that it, like the residents of the trailer park ...
Green light for Boulder band Na’an Stop
The five friends who make up Na’an Stop couldn’t believe they sold out their first headlining show at the Fox Theater last January. It was a big achievement for the reggae-roots band born out of CU-Boulder, which had been slowly gaining recognition around town for ...
Life before test screenings
"And then the big Native American smothers him to death with a pillow after he sees that he’s been lobotomized! Wait, Mr. Producer! Where are you going...
CWA: A magnifying glass on art
When Terrence McNally, the four-time Tony Award-winning playwright, was completing his undergraduate degree at Harvard University in the late ’60s, he spent a summer as program director for a camp of chronic schizophrenics. The camp took 25 patients from a Boston ...
Update: Film critic Ebert, 70, dies amid cancer battle
UPDATE: Film critic Roger Ebert has passed away amid a years-long cancer battle, the Chicago Sun-Times announced...
Justin Bieber’s pet monkey: Stunner, it’s a terrible idea
It doesn't matter how popular singer Justin Bieber is or how many albums he sells. It's a bad idea for him or for anyone else to own primates as pets...
Twitter takes down videos from Vine, after Prince request
Twitter's Vine, an app that allows users to post brief videos, has apparently taken down several videos at the request of musician Prince...
Read Boston cops’ pathetic attempts at infiltrating DIY punk scene
Poor police. They don't make the laws, they just have to come up with some way to enforce them — which sometimes means some embarrassing missteps...


















