Entertainment
Rhapsody in Tweedy
Over the course of Wilco’s seven previous studio albums, singer/guitarist Jeff Tweedy has been viewed as the musical brains behind the critically acclaimed band...
If you can’t dance, don’t sit it out
Forty years ago at Dartmouth College, it wasn’t “those who can’t dance, teach.” It was those who can’t dance, reinvent the medium itself...
Gospel slop
Assembled from spare parts of Footloose and Sister Act, the serviceable gospel contraption Joyful Noise takes place in an economically hard-hit Georgia town, where the multiracial members of the Divinity Church Choir raise voices and spirits under the direction of ...
Wahlberg pulls through
Playing a reformed cargo smuggler sucked back into the game, Mark Wahlberg is the star of Contraband, a fairly entertaining remake of the 2008 Icelandic thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam...
reel to reel | Week of Jan. 19, 2012
16 Love Sixteen-year-old Ally “Smash” Mash lives between the carefully painted white lines of Junior Tennis. Unbeaten and about to go pro, she has no time for lazy newcomer Farrell Gambles. But when fate and a twisted ankle intervene, she teaches Farrell what it ...
New fairy tale novel aims to be ‘Shrek’ for adults
Usually fairy tales start with a beautiful princess waiting for Prince Charming to whisk them away. But in the new book CURSES! A F***ed Up Fairy Tale, Julie Kazimer takes a different approach — Cinderella gets hit by a bus on page two.Left with the mission of ...
‘American Idol’s’ offstage rivals
LOS ANGELES — Something about TV singing shows tends to bring out the worst in human nature: put-downs, feuds and back-stabbing...
Golden Globes show is surprisingly stately
LOS ANGELES — Despite all his tough talk leading to...
Jerry Garcia documentary in the works after years of delays
Deadheads rejoice — a new documentary chronicling the life of the late guitar-god Jerry Garcia is in the works for an end of the year release.Filmmaker Malcolm Leo has teamed up with former Eagles manager John Hartmann to tackle the life of Grateful Dead frontman ...
CollegeHumor expanding from Web to film
LOS ANGELES — Hoping to follow in the footsteps of...
TV drama ‘Alcatraz’ continues Hollywood’s fascination with legendary prison
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Sometimes, just a single word...
Blues to make you dance
Around the same time Robert Johnson was emerging from the crossroads with his newfound guitar-picking skills, wailing about how all his love was in vain, blues music was going through a transformation of its own. The genre was spreading from its humble beginnings on ...
