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Serge Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life and Seven More Music Flicks That Don't Suck

A scene from A Heroic Life​I didn't make it out to the French pop spectacular at FilmBar on Saturday night, but the pics posted on Facebook got me super-pumped to catch Serge Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life. Non-documentary or concert films are tough to pull off (those are, too) but when a movie ... More >>

Project Nim: One Chimp's Sad Tale

A scene from A Heroic Life​I didn't make it out to the French pop spectacular at FilmBar on Saturday night, but the pics posted on Facebook got me super-pumped to catch Serge Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life. Non-documentary or concert films are tough to pull off (those are, too) but when a movie ... More >>

Mike Russell: Life's Café

Mike Russell makes a café out of life​Artist: Mike RussellTitle: Life's CaféBasics: Basics, you say? Where to start -- Russell is on his fifth CD. He has also appeared in theatrical productions as Howard Bevins in William Inge's Picnic and as Simon Stimson in Thorton Wilder's Our Town and he is ... More >>

127 Hours: James Franco Puts His Mind to It

Mike Russell makes a café out of life​Artist: Mike RussellTitle: Life's CaféBasics: Basics, you say? Where to start -- Russell is on his fifth CD. He has also appeared in theatrical productions as Howard Bevins in William Inge's Picnic and as Simon Stimson in Thorton Wilder's Our Town and he is ... More >>

Insane Clown Posse: Tracing the Sociological Lineage of Juggalos

Mike Russell makes a café out of life​Artist: Mike RussellTitle: Life's CaféBasics: Basics, you say? Where to start -- Russell is on his fifth CD. He has also appeared in theatrical productions as Howard Bevins in William Inge's Picnic and as Simon Stimson in Thorton Wilder's Our Town and he is ... More >>

Proto-Juggalos

Tracing the Sociological Lineage of Insane Clown Posse’s Fanbase

Yeasayer at Rhythm Room

​I walked into the Rhythm Room on Thursday evening for the Yeasayer show and surveyed the crowd. Immediately, I saw signs of potential trouble: The joint was lousy with hipsters. There were three Ben Gibbard look-alikes within 10 feet of me, and between them, they'd consumed enough PBR to drown a ... More >>

Arizona Tea Party Puddin' Heads; Plus, Russell Pearce Says Joe Arpaio Won't Run for Guv, Despite Business Journal Report

From left, Jack Harper, Dean Martin, Russell Pearce, and John Huppenthal Obama is a Nazi. Obama is a commie. Obama is a pirate. (Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum.) Obama is a socialist. Obama is the Joker from The Dark Night. (You know, Heath Ledger) Yadda-yadda-yadda. Such was the refrain f ... More >>

Radiohead Releases New Song, Paula Abdul Quits American Idol, Snoop Dogg Wants to Be a Millionaire

Spin: Radiohead Release New Song Spin: Eminem, Kanye, Lady Gaga, Beyonce Lead MTV VMA Noms So Much Silence: New Kidz in the Hall: Flickin' Rolling Stone: Lollapalooza '09: Day-By-Day Guide to the Acts You Can't Miss Rolling Stone: Paula Abdul Announces She's Leaving "American Idol" Rolling Stone: He ... More >>

Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson and a Bunch 'o' Buddhists in Chandler

Charles GabreanLaurie Anderson's backing guitarist. Lou something."Have you ever been given meditation instructions at a concert before?" the emcee asked as the crowd sat down at Chandler Center for the Arts to witness a benefit concert by Velvet Underground legend Lou Reed, his wife, performance ar ... More >>

The Bird Wants to Take a Blowtorch to 287(g) and Looks Forward to Saturday’s Anti-Arpaio March

Charles GabreanLaurie Anderson's backing guitarist. Lou something."Have you ever been given meditation instructions at a concert before?" the emcee asked as the crowd sat down at Chandler Center for the Arts to witness a benefit concert by Velvet Underground legend Lou Reed, his wife, performance ar ... More >>

The Best Movies of 2008

Charles GabreanLaurie Anderson's backing guitarist. Lou something."Have you ever been given meditation instructions at a concert before?" the emcee asked as the crowd sat down at Chandler Center for the Arts to witness a benefit concert by Velvet Underground legend Lou Reed, his wife, performance ar ... More >>

Bounty Hunter: Make a Twilight Xmas Tree (for enjoying or destroying)

If you're like me, then you take your tree-decorating seriously. When I saw the holiday themes out this year (if you haven't noticed, ornaments come and go in cycles) I was less than thrilled. Snowflakes? zzZZZZ. A lodge-style moose, lanterns and flannel ornaments? Seriously, does this look li ... More >>

This Weekend's Top Picks: Minibosses, The Dark Knight

If you're like me, then you take your tree-decorating seriously. When I saw the holiday themes out this year (if you haven't noticed, ornaments come and go in cycles) I was less than thrilled. Snowflakes? zzZZZZ. A lodge-style moose, lanterns and flannel ornaments? Seriously, does this look li ... More >>

The Dark Knight: Heath Ledger peers into the void as Batman returns

If you're like me, then you take your tree-decorating seriously. When I saw the holiday themes out this year (if you haven't noticed, ornaments come and go in cycles) I was less than thrilled. Snowflakes? zzZZZZ. A lodge-style moose, lanterns and flannel ornaments? Seriously, does this look li ... More >>

Summer Guide: The season of big-budget movies uses its brain

If you're like me, then you take your tree-decorating seriously. When I saw the holiday themes out this year (if you haven't noticed, ornaments come and go in cycles) I was less than thrilled. Snowflakes? zzZZZZ. A lodge-style moose, lanterns and flannel ornaments? Seriously, does this look li ... More >>

The bill for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Honduran scam: $157K and rising.

If you're like me, then you take your tree-decorating seriously. When I saw the holiday themes out this year (if you haven't noticed, ornaments come and go in cycles) I was less than thrilled. Snowflakes? zzZZZZ. A lodge-style moose, lanterns and flannel ornaments? Seriously, does this look li ... More >>

Axis Radius presents Battle of Rock Band

If you're like me, then you take your tree-decorating seriously. When I saw the holiday themes out this year (if you haven't noticed, ornaments come and go in cycles) I was less than thrilled. Snowflakes? zzZZZZ. A lodge-style moose, lanterns and flannel ornaments? Seriously, does this look li ... More >>

Heath Ledger's untimely death, and that milestone performance

If you're like me, then you take your tree-decorating seriously. When I saw the holiday themes out this year (if you haven't noticed, ornaments come and go in cycles) I was less than thrilled. Snowflakes? zzZZZZ. A lodge-style moose, lanterns and flannel ornaments? Seriously, does this look li ... More >>

Like a Complete Unknown

The changing face of Bob Dylan on film

One of Us Must Know

The elusive Dylan, masterfully considered

So Close, and Yet So Far

The intimate pleasures and necessary detachments of Toronto 2007

Tomorrow's Misery Today

The intimate pleasures and necessary detachments of Toronto 2007

Don't Know Smack

Down from the mountain, a softly lit Heath Ledger can't save this by-the-numbers Aussie drug flick

Keep It Gay

The year Hollywood went homo

Heath in Heat

Ledger plays it straight

Homo on the Range

Ledger and Gyllenhaal are cowboys in love

Black Forest

Gilliam has no one but himself to blame

Skate Bored

Truth is cooler than fiction

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise

His Guy Friday

A gay movie buff takes tips from Cary Grant

Coward's Quest

The boy-to-man adventure of The Four Feathers returns for a new generation

Banging Bigotry

A racist Billy Bob gets funky in Monster's Ball

Back to School

Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks grow up, more or less, and move to a dorm

A Hard Day's Knight

As promised, Brian Helgeland's new movie rocks

The Product

Heath Ledger's in no rush to be a star. Why's everyone else in such a hurry?

Kitten Caboodle

Josie and the Pussycats isn't a movie; it's a marketing meow mix

Grrlll, Interrupted

Coyote Ugly's tavern toughies fail bar exam

Saving Private Mad Max

The Patriot is a sentimental, overbearing, flag-waving crowd-pleaser -- in the best possible sense

Diss Me Kate

Teen Taming of the Shrew isn't quite as you'd like it