One of the few upsets at this year’s tepid Academy Awards was Precious beating Up in the Air for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film had won scripting awards from the…
Ted Asregadoo’s been drinking a lot lately, but it’s okay, because it’s for work.
What happens when you get Way Out…in barbershop harmony?
This week in Test of the Boomerang, Ben Wiser wishes a happy 70th birthday to Dead legend Phil Lesh.
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, Zack Dennis puts together a collection of Irish drinking songs to match the stories in James Joyce’s Dubliners.
Full disclosure: I don’t know much about J-Stache, because I am 100% straight up Team Daryl Hall till I die, WHUT. Yes yes, I get the whole ironic revisionist John…
Dave Steed tackles the letter V this week, running down minor hits from Luther Vandross, Randy VanWarmer, and…Bobby Vinton?
Time once more for Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I attempt to spotlight several works of sequential graphic storytelling that I find noteworthy and think you might…
It seems only appropriate, in the wake of ex-System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian’s newly released Elect the Dead Symphony, that the next album in my lineup of bargain…
Chances are, even if you’ve never seen an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (or MST3K for short), you still know the basic concept: bad guys shoot a good guy…
Sick of springing forward and falling back? Ann Logue breaks down the numbers and says Daylight Savings Time is worse than just an inconvenience.
Ah, the wonders of Facebook. I never attended any of my high school reunions (that means I’m 0 for 5), so when I connected with a few of my girls…
The power trio has had a long and glorious history in the annals of rock and roll. The simple, but often explosive blend of electric guitar, bass, and drums is…
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE The theme of America in popular music has run the gamut of idealized notions of a land where one can pursue one’s dreams, to a…
Old Dogs, the latest family comedy from Walt Disney Pictures, certainly lives up to its title. The jokes and situations are tired and have been seen hundreds of times in…
The recent rash of celebrity deaths has Robin Monica Alexander thinking of River Phoenix’s untimely demise.
Think you know your cover art? Come test your knowledge in this week’s Cover Me with Michael Parr.
Try as he might, Rob Smith Can’t Say No to recordings of mid-20th century Jewish-American comedian Benny Bell.
Twenty years after this Public Enemy classic was released, Mike Heyliger reflects on its legacy — and laments mainstream hip-hop’s turn away from social consciousness.
Boston Legal, that fast-paced and irreverent series created by the famed David E. Kelly (The Practice, Ally McBeal) has joined the lineup on TV Land, airing five nights a week…
Note to self: Sentiment outranks everything else when picking a Best Foreign Language Film winner in the Oscar pool. I’m not-so-secretly pleased that the stone-cold, auteurist-approved White Ribbon didn’t blue-ribbon…
The cast of the new Kander-and-Ebb musical The Scottsboro Boys (photo: Carol Rosegg) BOTTOM LINE: I haven’t been this moved by a piece of theatre in a very, very, very…
In 1979, following an acrimonious divorce from Mercury Records, Graham Parker & the Rumour released an album that would become a rock and roll classic.
Kelly Stitzel’s latest Soundtrack Saturday is one singular sensation.
In the early ’80s you had rough and tumble men who investigated crimes and brought down the bad guys. And they did it proudly with the stache. Of course, we…
Thinking about going to see She’s Out of My League this weekend? Don’t buy your ticket before watching the Trailer Trash review.
“What will be my legacy?” It’s a question every politician has to answer. Will we be remembered for fighting the good fight, or, like former New York congressman Eric Massa,…
Cornershop — We’re in Yr Corner from When I Was Born for the 7th Time (1997) Easterhouse — Come Out Fighting from Waiting for the Redbird (1991) Make Up —…
CAPTAIN VIDEO! returns with a sad look back at the time Kenny Loggins broke out of jail and got into a fight with a pack of the least threatening teen hooligans you’ve ever seen.
Rob Smith tells himself he’s over the Pretty Woman soundtrack, but is he the king of wishful thinking?