“Heavy Rocks!!” involves punk, metal and deep fryer
It’s a quiet Saturday night heavy with cold, and the suburban Connecticut landscape is crusted over with half a foot ...
Arts & Culture
Poet speaks candidly about life
“Can somebody kill those fucking romantic lights?” Those were Staceyann Chin’s first words at the mic. The 35-year-old Jamaican-born poet ...
Inventive clatter: Tennis-coats
Labeling Tenniscoats “lesser-known relatives of Deerhoof,” as many have done, is sort of like saying Mussolini and Michelangelo were long ...
Jeanine Basinger discusses Hollywood then and now
If you think the movie star life in Hollywood’s golden age was all autographs and red carpet photo ops, Chair ...
Movie review: “The Counterfeiters”
Save yourself? Or save everyone else? Perhaps one of drama’s greatest dilemmas, the question is also an incredibly difficult one ...
Record review: “Myths of the Near Future” Klaxons
Recent British music has been almost completely engulfed by post-Libertines, indie copy-cat bands. Songs about London have littered the pop ...
The Cine-Files
Today, I turn to my column with some dread, having just learned that William Buckley, famed wit and “crypto-Nazi,” died ...
The Cine-Files
Believe it or not, the Film Board is no insular, ritualistic cabal; we’re more like the brainy policy geeks at ...
Picture brief
Jamaican-born spoken word poet Staceyann Chin mingled with students after speaking at Usdan Thursday Feb. 21 at 9 p.m. Chin, ...
Top Five Moments of Ultimate Jackness
5. Melvin Udall — “As Good As It Gets” 4. R.P. McMurphy — “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” 3. ...