- 4/9/08 /
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Errol Morris on Why He Uses Reenactments in His Abu Ghraib Documentary
Plus: How long did Morris have to wait for Lynndie England to get out of jail before he could interview her?
Matthew Williamson
- 4/9/08 /
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Where Have You Heard Jason Castro's ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ Before?
From the 600-pound Hawaiian guy who sang it first, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.
- 4/9/08 /
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‘American Idol’: One Percent Inspiration
Last night, the Idol finalists sang "inspirational music." Also, Sindbad was there!
- 4/9/08 /
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David Archuleta Has Been Singing ‘Angels’ Flawlessly for Years
Is Idol's greatest-ever contestant recycling his old material? Yes, and we have YouTube evidence to prove it!
- 4/8/08 /
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The Tony Awards: Exactly Like the NBA's Western Conference
Finally, someone finds a way to speak to these convergent fan bases!
- 4/8/08 /
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Conor Oberst Sings Part of ‘Thunder Road’
Plus: New music from 50 Cent and the National!
- 4/8/08 /
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‘Lost’ Characters Agree: ‘Lost’ Is Confusing
Some clever video-editing nerd has created a pretty excellent montage of Lost characters wondering what, exactly, is going on.
- 4/8/08 /
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Marcel Dzama Finally Gets a Little Bloody
Increasingly, Dzama’s subjects are war, greed, anger; his tone macabre even if whimsical.
- 4/8/08 /
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Dancer Jock Soto Looks Back on a Life in Tights (and Fishnets)
"I’d been dancing in a strip mall outside Phoenix. I didn't know what I was getting myself into."
- 4/8/08 /
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Will Charges of Inaccuracy Bring Down ‘Bringing Down the House’?
Ben Mezrich's MIT card-counting thriller is now the latest nonfiction book to come under scrutiny by people who think "nonfiction" means "true."
- 4/8/08 /
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Keith Richards Revives Film Criticism
Plus: Thomas Haden Church on the gift of 'Wings'.
- 4/8/08 /
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What's the Best Part of the Epic George Clooney Profile in ‘The New Yorker’?
Well, we've been reading since yesterday morning, and we've got a bunch of 'em!
- 4/8/08 /
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Oliver Stone's Bush Biopic Will Be the Comedy Hit of 2009
Are we finally getting a movie version of 'That's My Bush!'? It sure looks like it!
- 4/8/08 /
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The Critic Is Dead, Says Critic
While Patrick Goldstein makes a number of excellent points about the changing role of criticism in American culture, his essay suffers from its anticlimactic conclusion.
- 1/28/08 /
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‘Lost’ and ‘Y: The Last Man’ Writer Brian K. Vaughan on Comics, Time Travel, and the Dharma Shark
So is there time travel in this season of Lost or not?
- 1/28/08 /
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Meet Qtrax, Digital Music's Latest Non-Threat to iTunes
Making its online debut today is Qtrax, a free, ad-supported, peer-to-peer service with a song catalog to rival Apple's iTunes. Too bad it's terrible in almost every way!
- 1/28/08 /
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‘The Wire’: Burrell Bites the Dust; McNulty Takes a Bite Out of Crime
"He was in the glee club. Stone stupid."
- 1/28/08 /
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Proposition Joe, East Baltimore Drug Kingpin, Is Dead
"You cross me, I'm a snake. But on a straight-up proposition, with a handshake? My word is my bond."
- 1/28/08 /
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Coen Brothers Win DGA Award — Is ‘No Country’ a Lock for Best Picture?
Probably!
- 1/28/08 /
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Marion Cotillard Gets a Date With Johnny Depp
Plus industry news on Beyoncé, Robert Redford, and Gnarls Barkley.
- 1/2/08 /
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Tom Wolfe Ditches FSG for More Money at Little, Brown
How much money does it take to get a guy to abandon his publishing house of 43 years?
- 12/20/07 /
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The Beatles Cover ‘Stairway’ in the Greatest YouTube Video of All Time
What might "Stairway to Heaven" have sounded like if it had been recorded for the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night instead of Led Zeppelin's IV? Like this, we guess.