Arts & Entertainment

New York's gone totally yuppie and Los Angeles was never that hip anyway, so what's the independent music scene to do?
April 20, 2006 at 12:00 am

Aw, it must be so hard for pop stars when they become successful. Today, camera phones and weblogs smudge the line between fan and critic, between celebrity and citizen.
April 20, 2006 at 12:00 am

After opening for indie rock sensations the Arcade Fire and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, it was only a matter of time before the Atlanta-via-Athens, Georgia group Snowden got picked up by a prominent independent label.
April 20, 2006 at 12:00 am

If you like your satire obvious and your states blue, you'll love American Dreamz. Picture a country where a bumbling Commander in Chief sees his term in office as a mandate from God and a contest for pop superstardom is tops on television.
April 20, 2006 at 12:00 am

While the title is somewhat misleading (sorry, no sex guys), this British comedy/melodrama is surprisingly touching and funny.
April 20, 2006 at 12:00 am

Considering the recent success of Brooklyn-based indie rockers the French Kicks, it's hard to believe that only a few years back they were playing a gig to drunk kids at an unnamed Philly frat house.
April 13, 2006 at 12:00 am

L'Enfant is a French film that has garnered a lot of praise during its recent circuit throughout various prestigious film festivals.
April 13, 2006 at 12:00 am

Spring is in the air, bringing along warm weather, short skirts and frat boys lounging in front of their house on couches like they're hot shit.
April 13, 2006 at 12:00 am

We all know that entertainers are total sell-outs. Whether your problem is with the Rolling Stones for playing at the Super Bowl or Ice Cube for dropping his N.W.
April 13, 2006 at 12:00 am

In the wake of Ashlee Simpson's lip-synch debacle on SNL nearly two years ago, Kelefa Sanneh wrote a diatribe against its most strident critics in The New York Times. "The Rap Against Rockism" asked "Could it really be a coincidence that rockist complaints often pit straight white men against the rest of the world?" (A rockist, of course, being a subscriber to the creed of authenticity and a strict guitars-drums-bass worldview.) In other words, is "alternative rock," in all its monikers, yet another white boys' club defined by its own exclusivity? Coachella, a documentary on the six-year-old Indio, California music festival of the same name, incessantly begs such questions by refusing to play to its strengths.
April 13, 2006 at 12:00 am

There comes a time for the aging heartthrob to retire his half-buttoned shirt and resign himself to making more family-friendly films.
April 6, 2006 at 12:00 am

Lucky Number Slevin is a veritable melting pot of film styles, buzz-inducing high concepts and A-list actors.
April 6, 2006 at 12:00 am

Strap on your cowboy boots everyone because Ted's Montana Grill has officially invaded Philadelphia.
April 6, 2006 at 12:00 am

Who: Philadelphia's own Man Man Genre: Experimental melodic mayhem Sounds like: If Frank Zappa and Tom Waits had a child out of wedlock Songs to download: "10 lb.
April 6, 2006 at 12:00 am

Much of the hype surrounding the Flaming Lips' long-in-the-works 12th album jumped on frontman Wayne Coyne's murmurs about "more guitars." The Oklahoma City veterans' last two albums, 1999's brilliant The Soft Bulletin and 2002's kinda brilliant Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, eschewed the band's tattered punk threads for heady, orchestrated prog.
April 6, 2006 at 12:00 am

It breaks my heart to have to say this, but Freddie Prinze Jr. turned 30 this month. That's right, kids, the guy whose boy-next-door charm made She's All That watchable has hit the big 3-0 ... and he's had one hell of a ride.
April 6, 2006 at 12:00 am

Heather Douglas left Penn in 1995 with a degree in English and dreams of one day becoming an actress.
April 6, 2006 at 12:00 am

Their music has been dubbed new-wave, pop-punk and various combinations thereof, but stellastarr* just likes to call it "rock." Between watching soft-core porns and touring to promote their album, Harmonies for the Haunted, stellastarr*'s pretty busy these days. Street: How would you define your music?
March 30, 2006 at 12:00 am

The key difference between Ice Age and Ice Age: The Meltdown is really just that everything is melting.
March 30, 2006 at 12:00 am

At first glance, nothing seems to be appealing about the new horror film Slither. In typical horror movie fashion, giant red slugs chase hapless South Carolina bumpkins up and down farm houses, through bathtubs, and other charming facets of small-town America.
March 30, 2006 at 12:00 am