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The text message came on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Alexis Mansinne, a 25-year-old event planner for the chic architectural magazine Dwell, was home sick with strep...
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The Fado is a dolorous folksong tradition from Portugal, first sung in the early 19th century by barefoot peasants mending nets and contemplating a roiling black Atlantic. It...
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This deliberate, meticulous heist-gone-wrong flick eschews all the usual excitement of crime movies. Instead, Austrian writer-director Götz Spielmann concentrates on the...
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In her latest book, chef Deborah Madison set out to discover what we eat when we eat alone. She answers on page one: “Like shit.” Actually, no. She really writes,...
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There comes a point in people’s lives when they have to ask themselves, “Where is the Ciroc Vodka–sponsored open bar?” And if they aren’t willing to...
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Just when you thought most giant Japanese video monitors were putting their artistic ambitions on hold to pursue more practical careers, some idealistic 103-feet-wide...
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Thrillpeddlers, well-known for blowing dust and gristle off Grand Guignol plays from early-20th-century Paris, have set their sights a bit closer to home for their Theatre of...
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Of all the ways to break through the fourth wall — look at the audience, talk to the audience, commiserate with the audience — we like the way the Primitive...
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Horror flicks account for most of the cheap, nasty fun provided by the annual bad-taste film frenzy known as Another Hole in the Head, and it’s no wonder. The genre...
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He grew up. One of our favorite punk writers has matured: It happens. With a mixture of emotions, we realize that Joe Meno is now a professor at Columbia College in his native...
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For much of its career, Camera Obscura has lived in the shadow of Belle & Sebastian. True, both bands are large Scottish ensembles based in Glasgow. Both feature girl singers...
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Culture critic Hal Niedzviecki confuses us, but in a good way. In 2006, he wrote a book about the homogenization of indie youth culture (Hello, I’m Special: How...
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Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin once flexed his might by demanding that Nikita Khrushchev perform the national Ukrainian dance, essentially forcing the future leader to squat...
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Joe Preston is a hero to most — most experimental drone doom-metal fans. The man from Melvins, Earth, and several other underground-popular indie metal bands is onstage...
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Dennis D'Ambrogio drives a UPS van in the city, and any doubts about his dedication to his work is dispatched once you get a load of his right gun, which is emblazoned with...
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After finding great success bringing Dave Eggers' novel You Shall
Know Our Velocity to the stage (Sacrament, 2004), the
Mission's Campo Santo is tackling Junot Díaz'...
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If you heard Godzilla was scheduled to stomp down your whole neighborhood in a few months, you'd get out of the way. You'd be safe. Still, you probably wouldn't be too happy...
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Nite Jewel is the nom de electropop of L.A.’s Ramona Gonzalez. She constructs arty grooves out of the same cheesy synth blurts and hand-claps heard on ’80s freestyle...
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It may seem retro to criticize suburbia. You might ask yourself: Hasn't that point already been made? That conformity and excessive consumption of resources, not to mention...
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Tim Sullivan's art is self-absorbed. All of his work consists of photobooth-sized pictures of himself, of his face. Making the connection between film strip and photo strip,...
