Memphis Punk Rocker Jay Reatard Dead at 29
Shermon Wilmot, the head of Memphis’s Shangri-La Records, described the young Jamie Lee Lindsey as “almost like this Elvis-type figure ...
Arts & Culture
Professor Dalit Katz on the Israeli Film Festival
The Israeli Film Festival is underway every Thursday at 8 p.m. from Jan 28 to March 4 at the Goldsmith ...
Splendid Details: Color, Pattern, and Style as History
The newest exhibit at the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies gallery, “Splendid Details,” is aptly named.
The Cine-Files
My, how time does fly. It seems like only days ago that we were packed into the Goldsmith for ALADDIN, ...
The Idiot Box: The Situation of Reality TV
Let’s be honest with ourselves. Since the early 2000s, reality television has become one of the most popular forms of ...
The Idiot Box
Going For the Globe
Album Review: Transference – Spoon
Spoon’s “Transference” is their seventh studio album and their first true release under mainstream scrutiny.
Youth in Revolt: Split Morality
It is bracing to watch Michael Cera, leading contender for World’s Most Lovable Young Person, play a character with an ...
Between the Cracks: Five Underappreciated Albums
Two-thousand-and-nine, in music, has come and gone. The “X Best Albums of the Year” lists have been tabulated, written, criticized, ...
Contrasting Views on the Artistic Validity of James Cameron’s New Epic, Avatar
Two critics square off on Avatar.