Entertainment
No fussing and fighting for the Wailers
Is this the loss of creativity we can expect when the dope heads get their way...
Songs of Solomon
For whatever reason, avant-garde art films have never gained the pop-culture cachet achieved by other realms of the art world...
Dwarfing expectations
We are masters of cynicism, proudly sporting a black belt in backlash. If this generation of critics, pseudo-critics and armchair-article-writing audience members given the bully pulpit of social media has any legacy, it will be bitching for bitching’s sake...
Bike underpass echoes
There are probably few choir groups that have ever performed with such emotion that they evoked tears from their audience, but in December 2010, caroler Debbie Giallombardo remembers a woman almost brought to tears by what she was singing on the Pearl Street Mall...
Free CDs and mp3s
To hear Khouri Austin tell it, nobody in The Foodchain sat up one day and said, “Let’s start a band...
Merry cynics-mas
Remembering the spirit of Christmas can get difficult when parking lot road rage and wrestling over smartphones overtake Santa and good cheer. In reality, it may be time to take a deep breath and count your blessings. And what better way to let off steam than ...
Studio adjusts ‘Jack Reacher’ marketing after shooting
Paramount Pictures has made tweaks to its marketing campaign for the Tom Cruise film Jack Reacher in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn...
‘Django Unchained’: Tarantino’s use of N-word debated
Quentin Tarantino's latest film, Django Unchained, pretty directly deals with race in America...
The black market meets the stock market
Killing Them Softly is an ambitious mashup of black market and stock market politics, wrapped in the guise of a straight-up crime movie. If that sounds like it’d be hard to pull off, it is. If you think it’s too much for one film, you’re right. Killing Them Softly ...
At the altar of Divine Fits
What do you do when you finally make it? Most artists are perpetually scraping by and innovating just to get by, and when you finally break through that barrier and find yourself no longer a struggling artist but a successful one, where do you go from there...


















