Arts & Entertainment
Cry Me a Rivers
Admit it: unless you’re an avid watcher of QVC (no judgment here), you probably only think of Joan Rivers at the mention of plastic surgery disasters.
Buffalo Style
The Shins on acid? The Shins if the Shins cared less about showcasing lead singer James Mercer? The Shins with MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden at the helm?
Border Patrol
Battle wounds, malaria treatment and vaccinations are to be expected in a film documenting the mission of four Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) volunteers in devastated Liberia and war-torn Congo.
Infinite Similarity
Like their 2006 debut Everything All The Time, Band of Horses’ third release, Infinite Arms, opens with what is possibly its best song.
Blues Brothers
On a fundamental level, the two-man band is one of the most constraining paradigms in rock n’ roll.
Casual Sex
In Sex and the City 2, the girls are back with the same wild outfits, the same posh cocktails and sex just as steamy as it was a decade ago.
Dying for Something New
George A. Romero has made a career out of zombie movies, starting all the way back in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead. His latest offering, the upcoming Survival of the Dead, makes perfectly clear that it’s time for Romero to lay this sub-genre to rest.
Wise Fools or Wise Foals?
The much-hyped sophomore album has proven an enigma for most bands. More often than not, indie buzz bands release follow-up albums that are intentionally completely different from their first, if only to show that they don’t want to be the same as they were (even if they really are the same as they were). Lately, these sophomore albums have tended to disappoint early fans while at the same time pleasantly surprising many reviewers.
Bearing It All
Four-piece Seattle-based indie-prog band Minus the Bear recently released their fourth album, OMNI, three years after the critical and commerical success of their last LP.
This Week In... 04.22.2010
MUSIC Friday, 4/23: Quasi with Let’s Wrestle, Johnny Brenda’s, $12, 21+ Janet Weiss, our love for you will never die.
Decoding The Voice
Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner riffs on the opening of the ICA's newest exhibition, Queer Voice. Be one of the first to see the show when its run begins tonight at 6:00 p.m.
Interview with Nash Edgerton
Street sat down with Nash Edgerton, director of The Square, to discuss spiders, stuntwork and freak accidents Street: You do everything – acting, editing, directing, writing, stuntwork – is their a certain role you like most? Nash Edgerton: No I don’t think – I kinda like doing a bit of everything.
Water, Water, Everywhere
Disney’s newest earth day special, Oceans, explores the thought posed by a tiny blonde boy in the opening scene — “What is the ocean?” In an effort to answer the question Disney, guided by the narration of Pierce Brosnan, takes us into the sea to meet the characters that define it.
Trailer Park
At this point in the semester, the summer movie schedule is probably a distant afterthought. In order to get you thinking about what's really important, we’ve put our trailer-watching procrastination to good use, pointing out the best and worst prospects for the season ahead.
The Eyes Have It
At last month’s Academy Awards, Argentina’s The Secret In Their Eyes pulled off a surprise victory to claim the Best Foreign Language Film trophy.
Trouble Down Under
The Square, a gritty and masterful neo-noir flick, announces two powerful voices to the film world.
Defibrillator: "Jackie Brown" (1997)
There’s a vocal group of film buffs that insists that Quentin Tarantino has never made a movie better than Jackie Brown. And as soon as you see the film’s opening sequence, it becomes hard to disagree.
One Track Mind
A song that is infectious, thoughtful and unpretentious — is it possible to achieve that holy trinity these days?
This Ain't Nothin' But A Summer Jam
Yes, yes, we know: Drake’s album is dropping this summer. Excited as we are, we’d also like to open your eyes to some other releases worth listening to.
