Arts & Entertainment

Erik Satie, an early 20th century avant-garde composer, basically invented the study album when he created the world's first "furniture music" - organized sounds that, much like a nice ottoman or rocking chair, can fill a room without becoming its focal point.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

I used to think only pretentious deviants with spectacles lowered halfway down their noses liked foreign films.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

Anyone who asks you, "Who's your favorite director?" deserves to be a Cinema Studies major. Punch the pretentious asshole in the face, but do please answer him.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

When one thinks of the word propaganda, the image of an American flag raised above soldiers dressed in camouflage comes to mind.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

3/28: The Raveonettes World Cafe Live, All Ages WXPN's Free at Noon Concert Series brings The Raveonettes, an alluring Danish duo whose sugar-coated harmonies and feedback-drenched guitars will please anyone within earshot.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

"First of all I would like to thank God for making me the boss I am." That's how Rick Ross begins his acknowledgements in the liner notes of his new album Trilla.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

The Mountain Goats - started in 1991 as a lo-fi solo project by songwriter John Darnielle - played in the basement of the First Unitarian Church last Thursday, March 20.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

Although it has been nearly five years since her last studio release, Erykah Badu's fourth LP New AmErykah was well worth the wait.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

If the phrase "student film" makes you think of last night's exploits splashed across YouPorn.com, you haven't embraced the Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival (GPSFF). A contest for Philadelphia-area university students, the festival gives awards in five different categories.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

Poignant, pertinent and made with noble intentions, Stop-Loss aims at greatness only to slide into mediocrity.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

As a precocious 12-year-old at summer camp, I worshipped my 20-year-old senior counselor. She had a boyfriend and a tattoo and was impossibly cool.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

The tides of globalization swept across Africa long before Kofi Annan joined the UN or Akon "smacked that". Wed to Asian, European and American influences, many of the continent's cultural practices are syncretic responses to outside technologies, politics and aesthetics.
March 20, 2008 at 12:00 am

On their debut album Reality Check, The Teenagers espouse the hormonal tribulations of that eponymous age range with a twisted Parisian/Californian adolescent perspective.
March 20, 2008 at 12:00 am

Thursday, 3/20: The Mountain Goats First Unitarian Church, All Ages Prolific lo-fi veterans The Mountain Goats are beloved for their intelligent lyrics and warm experimental folk style.
March 20, 2008 at 12:00 am

Grandpaboy Mono 2002 Back in 2001, The Strokes released Is This It, claiming to "save" rock with their punk snotitude and delicate attention to not really caring.
March 20, 2008 at 12:00 am

Currently studying abroad in Australia, I live a block from the beach, enjoy daily 80-degree weather and meet beautiful girls with accents.
March 20, 2008 at 12:00 am

My dad told me when I was younger that he first started listening to jazz when he was in college. At the time, I couldn't believe it - it seemed impossible anyone could, firstly, adopt an entire genre of music into their listening palate so late in life (yes, college students still seemed very old to me at the time) and secondly, could do so entirely on his own. As I think about it now, the reason for his late-blooming appreciation for jazz is all too obvious.
March 20, 2008 at 12:00 am

If you like watching actors/models kick and punch their way through a nonexistent plot, this film is for you.
March 20, 2008 at 12:00 am

Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) seems to be making it his business to play the 30-something loser who snags the ultra hot, and of course terribly sweet, girl.
March 20, 2008 at 12:00 am

2/28: RX Bandits and The English Beat The Trocadero, All Ages Break out your digital recorders and head down to Chinatown to catch five-piece California ska band the RX Bandits at the Troc.
February 28, 2008 at 12:00 am