Arts & Entertainment

The 2004 smash-hit documentary Super Size Me introduced the world to filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Spurlock's latest foray into documentary filmmaking, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, targets a far bigger foe than obesity.
April 10, 2008 at 12:00 am

You've probably experienced that Friday night when you've got your party shoes on, but no party to attend.
April 10, 2008 at 12:00 am

History majors, bottoms up! If you know anything relevant about Ben Franklin, you've been going to too many classes.
April 10, 2008 at 12:00 am

Paranoid Park is Gus Van Sant's latest foray into the psyche of discarded American youths. It is a contemporary Crime and Punishment, which recreates Dostoevsky's world of introspection, tension and guilt in Portland, Oregon's skate parks.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

Whether for riding dirty past the Quad or getting your roll on down 40th, no album will ever match the cruising potential of Dr. Dre's The Chronic.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

Based on the comic adventures of a young journalist, two big-screen adaptations of Tintin will be arriving in theaters in 2009.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

The best pregame album is actually not an album at all, because who has the patience to listen to a full album while pounding back shots?
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

4/4: Handsome Furs North Star Bar, 21+ One of the best new offerings from the beleaguered Canadian indie rock scene, Handsome Furs succeeds by avoiding the over-instrumentation that spelled death for many other Wolf Parade member collabs.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

Ever wondered what it's like to drop acid in the Canadian wilderness? You can get a rough idea by watching Caribou, aka Dan Snaith.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

The Smiths' best album, Meat is Murder, is not music for a light sob. This is an album for a "I am human and need to be loved" hardcore cryfest.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

The video entitled "LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!" catapulted its creator, crazed Britney fan Chris Crocker, out of the dark corners of Internet obscurity and into the spotlight.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

The Dukes of Stratosphear Chips from the Chocolate Fireball 1987 As a break from their somewhat more somber projects, the British new-wave group XTC traveled back in time to pay homage to their musical influences under the pseudonym The Dukes of Stratosphear and produced Chips from the Chocolate Fireball.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

5. From Hell (Adapted from From Hell by Alan Moore) A 2001 Jack the Ripper flick starring Johnny Depp, From Hell pretty much sandbagged in the box office.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

Erik Satie, an early 20th century avant-garde composer, basically invented the study album when he created the world's first "furniture music" - organized sounds that, much like a nice ottoman or rocking chair, can fill a room without becoming its focal point.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

I used to think only pretentious deviants with spectacles lowered halfway down their noses liked foreign films.
April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am

Anyone who asks you, "Who's your favorite director?" deserves to be a Cinema Studies major. Punch the pretentious asshole in the face, but do please answer him.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

When one thinks of the word propaganda, the image of an American flag raised above soldiers dressed in camouflage comes to mind.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

3/28: The Raveonettes World Cafe Live, All Ages WXPN's Free at Noon Concert Series brings The Raveonettes, an alluring Danish duo whose sugar-coated harmonies and feedback-drenched guitars will please anyone within earshot.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

"First of all I would like to thank God for making me the boss I am." That's how Rick Ross begins his acknowledgements in the liner notes of his new album Trilla.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

The Mountain Goats - started in 1991 as a lo-fi solo project by songwriter John Darnielle - played in the basement of the First Unitarian Church last Thursday, March 20.
March 27, 2008 at 12:00 am