Arts & Entertainment
Film
Jaa-rule
Certain films, like Prachya Pinkaew's Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior, exist as nothing more than a platform to display a person's tremendous physical talents.
by JIM NEWELL
Music
Vanilla ice rocks
Street worships any man with the balls to carry Gary Coleman around like a sack of potatoes and threaten to put him in a deep fryer.
by 34TH STREET
Music
Editor's Picks
Kevin Lo:
Joanna Newsom, The Milk-Eyed Mender
Joanna Newsom begins her shows by approching the front of the stage, gazing out to the back of the crowd and then clapping in rhythm until the audience joins her.
by 34TH STREET
Film
Editors' pick: Favorite V-day movie
Lisa Tauber (Guides):
Valentine
Starring the queen of shitty movies, Denise Richards, this movie is just so ridiculous that it's good.
by 34TH STREET
Film
Spiking The Punch
In his newsboy cap and jeans, Spike Lee saunters onto the stage in a packed Zellerbach auditorium. He seems irritated that he has to engage an audience of eager and inquisitive fans and scholars.
by MAWUSE ZIEGBE
Film
A Better than average chick flick
Though all the hopeless romantics out there hoping to meet and fall in love with a male escort might disagree, The Wedding Date is a disappointment.
by ROB COHEN
Film
The Jamie Foxx Show
Best Picture:
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby
Ray
Sideways
According to most experts, 2004 was a poor year for movies.
by JIM NEWELL
Music
Editor's Picks
Kevin Lo
Earlimart
Treble & Tremble
Few obituaries, tributes or theories about Elliott Smith will properly capture what he meant and continues to mean to his fans.
by 34TH STREET
Film
Love Me, Mr. Darcy
Jane Austin started it. Helen Fielding's modernized it. Now, director Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham) has taken the novel Pride and Prejudice (as well as women's perpetual lust for Mr. Darcy) and injected some good ol' Bollywood in it.
by JANICE HAHN
Music
Grammy predictions
Record of the year
Will win: Usher featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris -- "Yeah!"
You might hate it, but it loves you.
Should win: Ray Charles & Norah Jones -- "Here We Go Again"
It's Ray.
by KEVIN LO
Music
Editor's Picks
Kevin Lo
Ambulance LTD
"LP"
The first time you play LP, skip track one. It's a wonderful track, but you won't realize it until later.
by 34TH STREET
Film
Spring movies and such
As far as movies are concerned, the first few months of any year always suck. Since major studios tend to release their Oscar contenders in the summer and fall, all they can serve the hungry nerds now are mere table scraps.
by MAWUSE ZIEGBE
Music
From Petty Theft to Selling Toner, and All the Rocking In Between
The story of Tommy Stinson might just shape the way music-lovers handle telemarketers forever.
The one-time Replacements bassist and current solo artist recently made some easy cash selling toner over the phone for a major telemarketing company.
by EUGENIA SALVO
Film
Charlie, You So Crazay
Remember your quirky and obnoxious imaginary friend who liked to throw spaghetti and cut people's hair while they slept?
by SHAKIRAH SIMLEY
Film
We're not singing
A Love Song for Bobby Long aims to be an off-kilter yet heartwarming tale, but mostly it just plants itself in the middle of Crazyville and refuses to leave.
by CAROLYN DAUCHER
Music
My power, my pleasure, my pain
Any good musician wakes up in the morning with this thought in his head: "Today, I'm going to write the greatest song in the world." This mantra is what drives anyone in the business.
But, when Seal wakes up in the morning, he says, "Today, I'm going to write the greatest song in the world.
by JOHN CARROLL
Film
BUT They Were so cute!
And you thought Bennifer was the break-up to end all break-ups.
It may have been a week late, but Hollywood gave celebrity gossipers the best Christmas gift imaginable a couple of weeks ago.
by MAWUSE ZIEGBE
Film
Hilary swank looks like a man...
Million Dollar Baby is the conventional movie that everyone's sure to like a lot, but not to love.
by ROB COHEN
Music
Editor's Picks
Kevin Lo
Rogue Wave
Out of the Shadow
On the wacky and feel-good "Kicking the Heart Out," Zach Rogue sings, "If music is my lover, you are just a tease." Judging from most of the lyrics on the Bay Area band's debut, Rogue has a witty and biting sense of humor.
by 34TH STREET
Film
Assault on our intelligence
Jean-Francois Richet's remake of John Carpenter's 1976 film Assault on Precinct 13 could almost be billed as a parody of the typical action flick.
by ALIX MCKENNA
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