Entertainment
Let it snow
For many people, a white Christmas is the be-all and end-all of holiday cheer. Going to bed on Christmas Eve with flakes filling the air and waking up on Christmas morning to a world softened by a blanket of new-fallen snow simply can’t be beat. But even with all the...
Roundup: Roger Ebert’s submissions to the ‘New Yorker’ caption contest
Like a fine wine, or a not-very-fine wine, or a Roger Corman film, film critic Roger Ebert just gets better with age...
Filling the gap between Medeski, Martin and Wood
Bassist Chris Wood was taking some midday chill time in Athens, Ga., when we caught up to him last weekend, cooling his heels before his gig that night with The Wood Brothers band, his six-year project with his brother, guitarist and singer Oliver. The Wood Brothers ...
Upstart Crow puts on a Wilde thing
As a longtime fan of Oscar Wilde, the corners of my mouth go instantly north whenever I hear that some industrious theatre company is mounting one of his plays. Though he is principally known as a poet or for his single, inimitable novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ...
Art show goes B.L.A.M. in your face
Art is often made in isolation, but the community around its maker can inspire and influence the final result. Sometimes, an art scene is more than the sum of its parts...
Falling down 12 steps
The ubiquitous hyperbolic after-school-special type of dramatization of the perils of alcoholism has lost its teeth; it no longer delivers a social bite so much as it gets drool everywhere. Thus, in many ways, what Smashed wanted to do is something necessary, as we ...
Hawkes’ virginity Hunt-ed
America’s Puritanical origins mean that “sweetly sexual” may sound oxymoronic, but that phrase absolutely defines The Sessions, the softest and kindest movie to ever feature a star of Mad About You buck nekkid. Although nudity being “integral to the role” is a con ...
Typically-breathless Cinemascore gives Pitt’s ‘Killing Them Softly’ an F
It usually isn't hard to impress Cinemascore...
Australia pushes for locally made TV, but producers cry foul
The Australian government has put new incentives in place to urge TV networks to broadcast Australian programs. But for some producers, it's not enough...