Entertainment
Michael Rapaport’s rocky quest
PARK CITY, Utah — A movie star and television actor with a body of work stretching back nearly two decades, Michael Rapaport decided to direct a feature documentary to celebrate his love of A Tribe Called Quest, the late '80s/early '90s New York...
Strangled love
Set in Scranton, Pa., and Brooklyn, N.Y., Blue Valentine depicts a working class marriage hanging by threads of resentment, contempt and love, a very tricky braid to unravel. At its best, the drama captures little bits and pieces of a relationship, the telltale signs...
Punk rock and poetry
Today, Patti Smith — widely considered the godmother of punk — is a Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et Des Lettres in France, and an acclaimed author whose fascinating new book, Just Kids, is a recent National Book Award winner ...
Fearsome gravitational pull
There is only one way to describe Big Gigantic’s success, and it doesn’t require a half-assed play on words. The duo’s highly anticipated show at the Fox Theatre, which sold out months ago nearly within a day, marks exactly two years since producer/saxophonist ...
All-star collaboration
There’s a great moment from an audience video shot last October at the Rock ’n Roots fest in Amsterdam of Joe Satriani, Sonny Landreth and Davy Knowles gang-tackling the old blue-rock warhorse “I’m Going Down,” one of those easy-to-rehearse standby numbers that gets ...
Company bust
A single spontaneous moment pops up in the otherwise obsessively well-ordered ensemble drama The Company Men, written and directed by ER and West Wing alum John Wells. It’s a quick shot in a hotel room tryst of Maria Bello bopping back into frame, unexpectedly, ...
Jimmy Buffett hospitalized after fall off concert stage
LOS ANGELES — Singer Jimmy Buffett was hospitalized with a head injury after falling off the stage at the end of a concert in Sydney, Australia...
Jeff Zucker, departing from NBC Universal, has rosier view of TV...
MIAMI — Jeff Zucker...
Kevin Smith’s ‘Red State,’ about a homophobic church, becomes its own...
PARK CITY, Utah — Even by the Sundance Film Festival's hype-saturated standards, the Sunday premiere for Kevin Smith's...