Shadow in Blue
Several years ago, veteran bass player Guthrie Kennard was strolling through one of the Virgin Megastore locations in London. Suddenly, an idea occurred to...
House of Cards
When his boss Jay Chapa fired former city housing director Jerome Walker on May 7, he did it in a hotly worded letter outlining...
The Great Outdoors
The past couple-a weeks have been pretty good for bar-patio-ing. Not only has the weather been perfect -- not too hot, not too cold,...
Moving Pictures
Philip Haas has based most of his films on odd works of fiction -- the Oscar-nominated Angels and Insects came from A.S. Byatt's novella...
The F-Dub
The echoing, splintering reggae-inflected beats coming from outside Lola's Saloon-Sixth were definitely not anything I would have attributed to Dove Hunter, a nominee for...
Told You So
It's not nice to say "I told you so," but ... in February I predicted that the United States would seek a one-to-one deal...
Gallery
William Campbell Contemporary Art is running two shows. Cliff Garten's delicate abstract prints and Judy Youngblood's paintings with a raindrop motif are on display...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
Adoration (R) Atom Egoyan's latest film is about a high-school student (Devon Bostick) who uses his French class assignment to unearth buried family secrets....
Big Fat Mess
A few years ago, a studio would've dropped a piece of dreck like My Life in Ruins into a graveyard movie month like March...
What Happens in Vegas…
Ever have one of those fits of hysterical laughter, when you're utterly terrified and yet somehow laughing instead of screaming? I had one of...
