Arts & Entertainment

San Antonio, TX. The Alamo story has graced film reels more than a dozen times. It's Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and Colonel Travis: add a few more ingredients, stir and repeat.
April 8, 2004 at 12:00 am

Coheed and Cambria is "progressive rock, definitely not run-of-the-mill." Occasionally lumped into emo, or emo-core, the group's rock stylings are comparable to those of close friends and frequent tourmates, Thursday and Thrice.
April 8, 2004 at 12:00 am

The Electric Factory is plastered with red, gold and green posters that invoke the spirit of peace, tolerance and reggae music.
April 4, 2004 at 12:00 am

As it is at any concert featuring a band that has recently been on Total Request Live, the average age of those attending the Simple Plan show couldn't have been over 16, and that's including the small upstairs 21-and-over bar area.
April 4, 2004 at 12:00 am

For their third visit to Philadelphia, Broken Social Scene invited their brass section (members of Stars, the night's opening act) on stage for a sultry night of indie rock.
April 4, 2004 at 12:00 am

Lou Reed Animal Serenade Warner Brothers Lou Reed's 5,000th live album, Animal Serenade, shows that the 62-year-old legend can still put on a great show.
April 1, 2004 at 12:00 am

Jazz has long subsisted as an underground music -- an esoteric, impervious art form sheltered from consumer politics.
April 1, 2004 at 12:00 am

There are things out there that go bump in the night," quips Professor Bruttenholm (John Hurt). "We are the ones who bump back." No, this isn't your average weekend-drunken-sorority-girl- hook-up; it's Guillermo del Toro's above average comic-to-movie film Hellboy. Mix two parts X-Men, two parts Men In Black technology and a sprinkle of The Hulk's big buff looks, and you have the recipe that not only looks good but doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth. Based on Mike Mignola's comic book series, Hellboy opens in 1944 as the Nazis, led by Grigori Rasputin, attempt to open a portal to another dimension.
April 1, 2004 at 12:00 am

We're all relatively acquainted with the slew of coming-of-age teen comedies wherein implausibly attractive high school students overcome the bounds of social status, find love and provide a fortune cookie-sized moral to the tune of "Teenage Wasteland." The recipe works, though it usually makes for movies so saccharine that diabetics crumple to the floor of America's movie theaters.
April 1, 2004 at 12:00 am

Dave Scher wishes people would dance at shows like they used to. One half of the duo that makes up California-based All Night Radio, Scher remembers his upbringing in Long Beach, California as a time when people danced at shows.
April 1, 2004 at 12:00 am

What happened last night [at Wrestlemania]? We got beat. I had a blast last night. It was a lot of fun, it was cool.
April 1, 2004 at 12:00 am

Tami Fertig: The Magnetic Fields Get Lost Lest we forget, Magnetic Fields mastermind Stephin Merritt was making records long before 69 Love Songs. That one was okay, but c'mon.
April 1, 2004 at 12:00 am

No, the problem child was and always will be Dogma. Nothing can be more problematic than that.
March 25, 2004 at 12:00 am

Back in 1999, Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew decided to turn their friendship into Broken Social Scene.
March 25, 2004 at 12:00 am

Con artists are en vogue right now. Brad Pitt, Mark Wahlberg and Nicolas Cage have all dabbled in thievery.
March 25, 2004 at 12:00 am

Carina Round The Disconnection Don't let her minor keys and tormented lyrics fool you: Carina Round is one happy camper.
March 25, 2004 at 12:00 am

Everyone already knows that Charlie Kaufman is a genius. This is an acknowledged fact. The man who brought us both Being John Malkovich and Adaptation could not possibly be anything less.
March 18, 2004 at 12:00 am

What are you looking at right now? I am looking out the window at my next door neighbors' yard.
March 18, 2004 at 12:00 am

Carnage, carnage, blood, blood and then more carnage. The remake of the 1974 horror classic Dawn of the Dead retains elements of the original, while changing the story entirely.
March 18, 2004 at 12:00 am

With Hollywood constantly churning out thrillers with obligatory "surprise endings," it's great to see a satisfying conclusion that doesn't make the movie fold like a house of cards.
March 18, 2004 at 12:00 am