Arts & Entertainment
Blacked Out Beats
If you like Hot Chip, chances are you enjoy dancing. 2006's The Warning instilled in you "the joy of repetition," and you're ready for more.
Web Video of the Week
Sometimes we wonder what our high school friends have been doing with their lives. Recently, I checked up on two pals of mine, Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher, who were notorious comedians within our Atlantan community.
This Week in Music
Tonight: Vampire Weekend First Unitarian Church, All Ages Vampire Weekend turns out indie-pop gems with a touch of afro-pop (see our review on page 15). These Ivy League grads just signed a deal with XL Recordings and are poised to explode on the scene.
Creatures Of the Night
It's really too bad that The O.C. was cancelled before Columbia-grads Vampire Weekend arrived on the scene.
Deacon In Wonderland
Here are some words I'm not going to use in the following article: day-glo, nerd, neon, hallucinatory, spastic, spazz, demented, frenzy, wacky, ebullient, man-child, shenanigans, awesome.
Defibrillator
Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf Big Shots 2003 The "hip-hop pioneer" title is generally attributed to a limited pool of late '80s and early '90s MCs, depending on subjective standards.
SO DAMAGED
Neil McCormick and Brian Lackey of Mysterious Skin: Neil, a soulless teenage hustler + Brian, an introverted and coddled 18-year-old + alien abductions + repressed dark memories = a raw, graphic and seriously depressing and disturbing film with intense performances by its lead actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Brick) and Brady Corbet (Thirteen). Dawn Wiener of Welcome to the Dollhouse: Dawn, an unattractive, awkward and certified 7th grade loser + an adorable little sister + absent-minded parents + unrequited love for a cool guitar player + the "Special People Club" = a quotable, coming of age, dark comedy that makes you cower at the thought of middle school. Duncan Mudge of The Mudge Boy: Duncan, a quiet, sheltered farm boy + his unusual desire to mimic his dead mother + an unlikely friendship with a tough, neighborhood boy + a question of sexuality = a poignant film featuring a stunning performance by Emile Hirsch in the title role.
Soviet-Style Abortion
I'll be honest: even though we put Juno on our Best Movies of 2007 list, I don't think it deserves half of the hype it's garnered.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT. Cinema's forgotten masterpieces: Landscape in the Mist (1988)
As Americans, we fancy ourselves as having monopolized postmodernist existential angst. But Theo Angelopoulos's 1988 masterpiece Landscape in the Mist plaintively reminds us that we are not alone in our search for meaning in a bleak universe.
Mission to Mars
The Bedlam in Goliath, the fourth full-length studio release by The Mars Volta, introduces listeners to a new sound -- a modification of the direction taken by the group on their last release, 2006's Amputechture.
Web Video of the Week
Dancing to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is acceptable only twice during the average person's lifetime: for the duration of 1983 and at your brother's bar mitzvah.
Five Movies to Overturn Your Carefully Cultivated Sense of Reality
5. Fight Club Tyler Durden: "Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat. It's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just.
A Holy Matrimony
The Starlight Ballroom was designed for dancing. As you walk into the place, a disco ball throws deceiving patterns of colored light on the wide dance floor, informing you that you didn't come here to stand still.
The Week in Music
Thursday, 1/31: Public Enemy and The Roots The Trocadero, All Ages Go down to Chinatown and catch the Artists For Heat benefit concert, featuring hip hop legends Public Enemy and The Roots and a special DJ set from Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest.
Biting Where Few Have Bitten Before
I'm all about vagina empowerment. In my vocabulary, the word "feminist" is neither dirty nor derogatory.
Teeth Interview
Recently, Street had the pleasure to interview the writer/director of Teeth, Mitchell Lichtenstein, and producer, Joyce Pierpoline, who graduated from Penn.
Vampire Weekend Review
It's really too bad that The O.C. was cancelled before Columbia-grads Vampire Weekend arrived on the scene.
Defibrillator
Jellyfish Spilt Milk 1993 A brute force of power pop, the glam rockers of Jellyfish were overshadowed by flannel-clad grunge bands popular at the time of their '93 release of Spilt Milk, a symphonic gem that features heavily layered guitars, organs and Queen-like harmonies.
The Sundance Rundown
This Sunday marked the conclusion of the Sundance Film Festival, the biggest event of the year for American independent film.
