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Rednecks and white lightning
Scuff him, scrape him, buff him up; nobody is going to buy Shia LaBeouf as a country boy. He has a face built for Instagram and his posture is that of a narcissist demanding bottle service at a trendy club. Even though he plays the least burly of the Bondurant boys, ...
Don’t call them rappers
With its first major label release, 2008’s Remind Me in 3 Days, The Knux immediately got touted as one of the most innovative and different-sounding new acts in hip-hop...
Chinese art attack
It’s impossible not to watch Ai Weiwei, dubbed by some as the “Chinese Andy Warhol,” tell his motherland to eff right on off without thinking one thing first and foremost: That dude has got some Buddha-sized stones. Although Ai may possess the street-art cred and pop...
Ransomed for charity
Flight For Life helicopters and airplanes usually fly people out of the mountains...
At Telluride film fest, Ben Affleck, filmmakers debate cynicism
Ben Affleck knows movies can change the world. At a roundtable on terrorism in film at the 2012 Telluride Film Festival, the Hollywood star argued that film directors should keep that in mind and "ward off their cynicism...
Jay-Z joins Pearl Jam for close of Made in America fest
Rapper Jay-Z hosted the Budweiser Made in America Festival in Philadelphia, but not surprisingly, he didn't stay on the sidelines...
Stones to start rolling again
The Rolling Stones have somehow made it to 50 — and not just as individuals. The band itself is now at half a century, and to mark the occasion the members are planning to perform for the first time since 2007 before the end of the year...
Fender blender
Everybody needs a little help. Writer/director/actor Dax Shepard could have probably used another writer, a third director (David Palmer already co-directed) and a better group of actors for Hit and Run, a movie that is a cinematic traffic accident with multiple ...
True love and music
Nicki Bluhm has a lot going for her. Her country-rock vocals recall the rootsy strut of Linda Ronstadt, while sweet and smooth like a crème brûlée. Her guitarist/husband Tim Bluhm is leader of longtime Bay Area indie-folk icons The Mother Hips, providing a built-...
Recyclists
This is not a good movie. It’s important to establish that early on so that you can understand how an appreciation of its moving parts doesn’t fully remove one central thesis: Premium Rush is crap. It may, however, be somewhat fun crap, depending on your tolerance ...
A final bow
To help generate a buzz for the release of its latest CD, If Not Now, When, Incubus’ management came up with a novel idea. The band would rent out a gallery storefront in Los Angeles, set up its instruments and play shows in this small space for six nights over a ...
