Radar Bros. “The Fallen Leaf Pages” Merge Records Slowcore is an excuse for rock critics to praise molasses-paced music. With the exception of the genre-defining band Low, “slow” tends to be a euphemism for the word “boring,” making the useless “core” addendum irrelevant. Read more...

I am having a lasagna contest and you’re invited. If you e-mail me the best lasagna recipe on campus by the end of this month, I’ll make you a free dessert. Read more...

At first glance, the story behind the opera “Lorca, Child of the Moon” seems to have a fairy-tale ending. A labor of love first developed as a series of workshops, it gained support and grew into a full-scale opera that will premiere on March 17 at Freud Playhouse. Read more...

I got to violate Andy Roddick. All right, it’s not what you’re thinking, and it had nothing to do with me stalking any tennis court, armed only with a hand full of date-rape pills and a head full of dreams. Read more...

Every once in a while, you feel fatigued or cranky and you don’t know why. Then you realize something is amiss in your diet, and the world makes sense again. Read more...

Unlike the bewildered woman swallowed by the unruly machine of the modern world in the 1928 expressionist drama “Machinal,” director Jonathan Gellert has been making his own in the world. Read more...

“Hostage” Directed by Florent Siri Miramax Films French director Florent Siri’s American debut film “Hostage” is more than just the next big Hollywood crime thriller. Based on the book by Robert Crais, “Hostage” follows Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis), an emotionally scarred former LAPD hostage negotiator, who recently became the clean-cut chief of police in a low-crime community in Ventura. Read more...