Arts & Entertainment
Hot hot heat
Street: How were you able to get into the character of the evil Bill Cox? It's something that's quite out of the norm for your career, and I was wondering what it was like and did you ever find yourself morally repulsed because you have real kids now.
Texas rockers drift onto the scene
Straddling the state line between Texas and Arkansas is a little city called Texarkana, home of the only U.S.
Battle of the Music Fests
This past week, the line-ups for two important music festivals were announced. Hippie Bonnarooites cursed its indie line-up, while Coachella fans were equally disappointed by its list of bands.
Hurts so good
In Why We Fight, Eugene Jarecki strings together footage from every war the United States has fought on camera with interviews from experts on the subject in order to prove a point.
Something old, 'something new'
In Something New, first-time director Sanaa Hamri makes an admirable effort to increase discourse on the perpetually controversial topic of race.
Ring My Belle... and sebastian
Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit What happened to the old Stuart Murdoch? Where did he go?
That Guy
This week's "That Guy" is none other than Michael C. Maronna. Michael C. who, you ask? You may not know his name but you'll never forget his pale skin, gangly figure, fiery mane or his cracking pubescent voice as narrator of the bizarre storylines of Nickelodeon's cult favorite, The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Since Pete and Pete's cancellation in 1996, Michael has been on the Hollywood backburner, getting suspended from high school for setting guitars on fire, studying film and re-emerging onto the Hollywood scene. In 2002, Maronna made his first appearance on the big screen since his 1990 debut in Home Alone as Jeff, one of Kevin's (Macaulay Culkin) older siblings.
Dept. of interracial relations
Kriss Turner's breakthrough screenplay Something New proves to be a breath of fresh air in multiple ways.
Comfort for the cold
The long stretch between winter and spring breaks is arguably the worst time of the year. The holidays are over, it's cold and dreary and few people around here brave the outdoors without a Burberry scarf and pants tucked into their Ugg boots.
Jada Pinkett Smith gets jiggy with wicked wisdom
You may know her as Will Smith's wife, or as the actress in such films as the Matrix Reloaded and Madagascar, but Jada Pinkett Smith is reinventing herself as the frontwoman of the new, aggressive rock band Wicked Wisdom.
Nanny diaries
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Mary Poppins and Mrs. Doubtfire are just a few of the "nanny" movies that have thrilled us, made us laugh and made us cry.
Many Seamen
In Annapolis, James Franco plays Jake Huard, a shipyard worker who joins the U.S. Naval Academy.
Hip-Hop meets hardcore
Two years ago, P.O.S. was pulling water-shutoff notices from his door. One year later, he was touring the U.S.
Pootie tang and pokemon
Street: Could you tell us a little about how the Video Library started? Attiba Royster: I'm not sure exactly -- I only started this job about four years ago -- the store has been around before me.
Big Momma's In Da House
Director John Whitesell literalizes tropes of gender and racial identity confusion in his Big Momma's House 2, which meditates upon the nuanced difficulties of existing in society as an obese African-American woman, while in reality being a skinny black man.
Best Albums of 2005
And you thought music was dead. It's been a pretty good year for music, with some disappointments along the way, but if anything, 2005 indicated that good bands just keep getting better.
Scarlett fever
Match Point was a departure from The Island -- I thought you were going to go action on us.
Don't stroke their ego
In 2001, with the release of the Strokes' first album, Is This It, critics predicted that they would be the leaders of a new era of rock and roll, and for a while, they were right.
