Arts & Entertainment

The first Friday of every month, Philadelphia comes alive with gallery openings, performances, talks and copious free booze.
February 4, 2010 at 12:04 am

Spoon has never paid much heed to consistency. The band’s first four full-length albums were grab bags of indie-pop sounds, as if they weren’t quite ready to settle down with a style of their own.
January 28, 2010 at 2:15 am

Whether you love or hate GaGa, take a listen to some of these influential tracks to discover what she's all about. 1.
January 28, 2010 at 2:14 am

LADY GAGA IS USHERING IN A NEW, FAR MORE REFRESHING, ERA OF POP I am an outsider to pop.
January 28, 2010 at 2:09 am

With their new single, “Good Morning,” Rogue Wave have taken all of the things they had going for them — beautifully layered guitars, mellifluous vocals, a healthy sense of introspection — and completely obliterated them, opting instead for the same sort of sugary pop their original music seemed to be a reaction against.
January 28, 2010 at 2:08 am

We’ve really tried to understand the acclaim surrounding Motion City Soundtrack’s major-label debut.
January 28, 2010 at 2:06 am

There are a lot of reasons I hate myself for loving Rascal Flatts. It really bothers me that the lead singer, the appropriately named Gary LeVox, is fat, spikes his hair and doesn’t play an instrument.
January 28, 2010 at 2:03 am

2010 may just be Mel Gibson’s comeback year. Since his little outburst a few years ago he has been entirely absent.
January 27, 2010 at 11:47 pm

An unlikely nation has captured the attention of cinephiles across the globe.
January 27, 2010 at 11:45 pm

As director Bela Tarr points out, Werckmeister Harmonies explores the “boundaries between civilization and barbarism.” While cryptic, his experimental allegory about encroaching fascism is visually stunning and endlessly rewarding. The film begins in a pub.
January 27, 2010 at 11:43 pm

After winning Best Picture and Best Director at the Golden Globes, Avatar is a front-runner for the Oscar’s top prize.
January 27, 2010 at 11:12 pm

Fish that steal walls, horses that drive trucks and a neighbor who always SPEAKS LIKE THIS are some of the many characters inhabiting the bizarrely funny world of A Town Called Panic. Based on a Belgian puppet series originally distributed via five minute episodes, this stop-motion animated film follows the lives of three individuals — Horse, Cowboy and Indian — after Cowboy and Indian forget to give Horse a gift for his birthday.
January 25, 2010 at 1:07 am

One would think writer-director Scott Cooper would deserve most of the credit for Crazy Heart's heartbreaking portrayal of a washed-up country singer.
January 21, 2010 at 2:54 am

Something is amiss in the village of Eichwald, Germany.
January 21, 2010 at 2:49 am

2009 has been sort of an up and down year for theater-goers, as triumphant highs, like The Hurt Locker, have shared screen time with embarrassing lows, The Squeakquel, anyone?
January 21, 2010 at 2:46 am

While other magazines may have done their best to highlight the best of aughties cinema, we here at Street have the real recap of the past ten years. Best trip back to high school: Superbad (2007) Jonah Hill and Michael Cera rule as Seth and Evan, two delightfully awkward high-school seniors trying to live it up before graduation.
January 21, 2010 at 2:33 am

In a December 3 review of “Cousins,” the first of two somewhat mediocre singles from Vampire Weekend’s new album, we were not impressed: “It doesn’t sound like Contra will expand [the band’s] preppy East Coast sensibilities too much.” This thinking seemed logical at the time.
January 21, 2010 at 2:24 am

We don’t blame you for not keeping up with music news over break. But now that you’re all caught up on sleep and Jersey Shore episodes, check out some of the info you may have missed.
January 21, 2010 at 2:15 am

There’s a deodorant company that claims that smell is the strongest sense tied to memory. This may be true, but in my mind sound is a close second.
January 21, 2010 at 2:13 am

In her 13 years as a solo artist, Missy Elliott has never before made fans wait this long for an album.
January 21, 2010 at 2:11 am