Sunday, August 16

In the news:

Screen Scene: 'Alpha Dog'

“Alpha Dog” Director Nick Cassavetes Universal Pictures Did you ever watch “America’s Most Wanted” and think to yourself, “I wonder if these dramatizations would be better with Justin Timberlake”? Read more...


Screen Scene: 'Children of Men'

From “Blade Runner” to Big Brother, bleak futures have been portrayed countless times. Yet two aspects set Alfonso Cuaron’s dystopia, “Children Of Men,” apart from so many others. Read more...


Screen Scene: 'Letters from Iwo Jima'

War films tend to suffer from an aura of banal sameness. They can all seem alike at times. And whenever one film comes along to shake things up a bit (for example, “Saving Private Ryan,” with its shaky cam and washed-out visuals), every subsequent output in the genre follows in its footsteps with near-religious fanaticism. Read more...


Sampling and sweating his way to success

Hearing the voice of self-proclaimed “un-DJ” Girl Talk (real name: Gregg Gillis) discuss his views on the legitimacy of music sampling as a higher art form by using Ying Yang Twins’ “Wait (The Whisper Song)” overlapped on top of a peppy techno beat may make one skeptical, and even more so when the song segues into the Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” seconds later. Read more...


Fortune-telling 2007

Hello, dear reader, and welcome to A&E’s annual prediction sesh, in which we crack open our fortune cookies and see what’s going to be in and out in 2007. Read more...


The many faces of Nikki S. Lee

Who is Nikki S. Lee? The South Korean-born performance artist and 1999 graduate of New York University has become internationally known for her galleries of photographs which feature her under the guise of a variety of identities. Read more...


Soundbite: Field Music

Field Music “Tones of Town” Memphis Industries Call it post-post-punk. In the wake of second-generation bands such as Bloc Party and Interpol, there’s been renewed interest in post-punk’s founding fathers: Gang of Four, Mission of Burma and Wire, who have all recently either made comebacks or at least reissued classic albums. Read more...