Nick Hornby

Fandemonium

Idle Worship with KISS, Nancy Sinatra, Camille Paglia, and Chevy Chase

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

The Crowd You're in With More Cliché Than Cathartic

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Saving McSweeney's

A heartbreaking tale with staggering implications for indie publisher

Captured on Cassette

New memoir evokes an emotional era for one rock critic

A Fanclub's Notes

Once hyped as a supergroup, Teenage Fanclub may have to settle for midlevel stardom, and that may be just fine

Soul Survivor

A nostalgic song-and-dance show, in which music is one man's heartbeat

The Kids All Write

A new anthology argues that reading and writing still matter

For Love of the Game

The Farrelly brothers swing straight and hit the sweet spot

Picking and Choosing

Books recommended, books read, and books still waiting

About a Man

In Good Company is wonderfully funny, a bit sad, and unmistakably real

The Edge of Treason

Bridget Jones is betrayed by a dumb, dull sequel

Old Faithful

Predictable, reliable, unforsakable -- the Strokes are back on the scene with this year's most anticipated follow-up

Hammer of the Gods

With a handful of artists, "classic rock" is not

a pejorative

I Want to Ride My Bicycle

Leave the car at home and get to work on two wheels

Persistent Visions

This season's cinema demands attention

Good Living

Novelist Nick Hornby, the voice of the modern dysfunctional male, switches genders in his new work How to Be Good.

Pop Philosophy

Anger and disenfranchisement make good musical bedfellows; National Novel Writing Month

Pump It Up

Anger and disenfranchisement make good musical bedfellows; National Novel Writing Month

Suspicious Minds

Anger and disenfranchisement make good musical bedfellows; National Novel Writing Month

Start It Up

Anger and disenfranchisement make good musical bedfellows; National Novel Writing Month

It's a Funny World You People Live In

Anger and disenfranchisement make good musical bedfellows; National Novel Writing Month

An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks

Anger and disenfranchisement make good musical bedfellows; National Novel Writing Month

R.I.P. Solomon Burke, 'King of Rock 'n' Soul'

Solomon Burke in the '60s​Pour one out for one of the all-time greats of soul music, self-proclaimed King of Rock 'n' Soul Solomon Burke, who died yesterday in the Netherlands, according to CNN and others.Burke, 70, died of natural causes early Sunday morning on a plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol Air ... More >>

Alex Smith: We've Still Got Him to Kick Around

Do the Vitamin Water people think this is going to help move the product? ​For San Francisco sports fans, the news that Carlos Beltran may soon be heading to town was tempered somewhat by the fact he could conceivably be rooming with Alex Smith. For parts of six maddening years, Smith has been the ... More >>