Arts & Entertainment
Shake Up in the Holy Land
Unsettled, a documentary by Adam Hootnick, tells the story of six young adults living in Israel during the summer of 2005, when the Jewish state made the controversial decision to pull out of the Gaza Strip.
Ropeadope Records
For years people have been wondering what effect technology will have on the music industry. But it still seems like little has changed.
The Defibrillator
Big Star Radio City 1974 As I watched OK Go perform this past weekend, I couldn't help but think they owed an awful lot to every power pop band that's ever come before them.
Movie Magic
Captain Disillusion stares at the camera and utters, "Love with your heart, use your head for everything else." This post-enlightenment superhero, whose face is partially coated in metallic silver paint, is at once seriously goofy and playfully skeptical.
The Week in Music
4/18: Kate Nash World Cafe Live, All Ages Kate Nash is only 20 years old, but the British songstress is well on her way to a successful career.
Editor's Picks
New Releases: Young @ Heart: Centegenarians croon without (apparent) fear of keeling over. John McCain, take note.
Shoutgun Sounds
Indie darlings Tokyo Police Club continue the long-standing tradition of putting out blisteringly fast rock songs on Elephant Shell, a quasi-debut glistening in the wake of their 2007 EP A Lesson in Crime.
A Film to Visit
Were Stanley Kramer alive today, he would have loved Tom McCarthy's The Visitor. Indeed, it resembles many of the Big Issue films of the mid-twentieth century.
A Phoenix Like Fawkes
Phoenixology - the graceful art of death and rebirth - lies at the center of French director Jean Cocteau's final film, Le Testament d'Orph
Oddballs
If you could think of any word to describe the collaborative brainchild of former Dungeon Family rapper Cee-lo Green and pop producer Danger Mouse, you would probably think of the word odd.
Fling Music Preview
Like Mindz Lower Quad Saturday, 3:00 p.m. "There ain't no band Like Mindz" is their motto, and quite frankly, that's pretty much on point.
Because I Got Flung
Street: Why did you start rapping? Afroman: I think I rap for the pissed off and frustrated, and my goal is to make them smile.
Defibrillator
Slum Village Fantastic Vol. 1 1997 I remember being 17 years old and going through that stage when I felt the need to shed the baby skin that had protected me for so long and interpret the world through my own perceptions.
Carmen Sandiego's Protege
The 2004 smash-hit documentary Super Size Me introduced the world to filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Spurlock's latest foray into documentary filmmaking, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, targets a far bigger foe than obesity.
This Movie Is Inebri-RATED
You've probably experienced that Friday night when you've got your party shoes on, but no party to attend.
Internet Video of the Week: History Boys
History majors, bottoms up! If you know anything relevant about Ben Franklin, you've been going to too many classes.
Paranoid Perk
Paranoid Park is Gus Van Sant's latest foray into the psyche of discarded American youths. It is a contemporary Crime and Punishment, which recreates Dostoevsky's world of introspection, tension and guilt in Portland, Oregon's skate parks.
Best Album to Ghostride the Whip To
Whether for riding dirty past the Quad or getting your roll on down 40th, no album will ever match the cruising potential of Dr. Dre's The Chronic.
The Real News Reel
Based on the comic adventures of a young journalist, two big-screen adaptations of Tintin will be arriving in theaters in 2009.
