9/5/2008 11:51
The Brothers Bloom, Rian Johnson's follow-up to his oddball noir Brick, premieres at the Toronto film festival.
9/5/2008 11:18
Local heroes Kidz in the Hall and The Hood Internet are headlining a benefit for the Chicago Art Partnerships in Education (CAPE) at the Metro this Sunday. DJ talent includes Million $ Mano and Brooklyn's Sammy Bananas. Yeah it's Sunday...
9/5/2008 11:17
Friday, September 5Mittens on Strings, Bellafea and Hotel Brotherhood at Hideout - Mittens on Strings is a local band, originally from Louisville, that plays folky rock enhanced by unconventional twists and turns. More info and tickets.Shudder to Think at Park West - This band, known for drawing on an array of sounds including punk, glam and pop, formed in 1986 and reunited this year after a 10-year breakup. Also with Cheer Accident. More info and tickets.Saturday, September 6Penthouse Sweets at
9/5/2008 11:35
Everybody loves "best of" lists, because everybody else's lists are wrong and obviously your Top 10 of whatever is completely right. In that spirit, help me come up with a list of great TV pilots. Note that we're not talking about the best TV shows of all time, just the...
9/5/2008 9:05
When I found out Chicago four-piece the Blissters had titled one of its EPs "I Love New Wave" I was more than happy to give the band a listen because, well, I love it, too.I'm very glad I did.The Blissters have been around since 2004 and draw on classic new wave and power pop sounds, playing melodic guitar rock infused with keys and synths and driven by traded off male and female vocals. This all adds up to something that sounds sort of like a cross between the Go-Go's and the Cars with current n
9/5/2008 9:26
In America, every celebrity between the grades of B-plus and D-minus wakes up each morning with a shared thought drawing equally from pure narcissism and pure panic. That thought is: Should I do a reality show based on my own...
9/5/2008 10:22
Some movies live on, their agreed-upon greatness chiseled in stone, or at least listed by the American Film Institute. Others, quality be damned, are more like folk art; their greatness is part of our oral tradition. In 2005, the AFI...
9/5/2008 9:40
Living With Crazy Buttocks is an actual book title. Pretty funny title at that -- and my favorite among the former Diagram Prize winners vying for the oddest book title of the last 30 years. It's a contest organized by...
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It could be the shot heard round Hollywood. Politically charged documentarian (the most financially successful documentary filmmaker in history) will release his new film "Slacker Uprising" on the internet, free for all to download. Mike's clearly following in the...
9/4/2008 16:53
Sarah Palin gives a great speech -- totally shameless.
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Raised in Norwalk, Conn., and trained from age eight as a classical violinist, 38-year-old Joan Wasser hardly followed a conventional path toward becoming one of the most-buzzed singers and songwriters on the current rock scene. Even after she left her...