Arts & Culture

I love Twilight “like a fat kid loves cake,” to quote rap artist 50 Cent. This phrase aptly describes my initial reaction to The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the juicy romance movie that my...

“The best art is the most expensive because the market is so smart,” said Tobias Meyer, Sotheby’s head of contemporary art in 2007. True statement? Or will it prove false when Urban Shaman: Contemporary...

Departures and Arrivals, the opening play of The Black Hole Theatre Company's 2009-10 season, is one production where you get a lot of play for the price of admission. With 22 separate scenes unified...

Director of Cinematography, Javier Aguirresatobe, establishes immense tableaux wide shots in John Hillcoat’s The Road, a film depicting the state of life in a post-apocalyptic world. One such shot features the protagonists, simply named...

Certainly an album of lo-fi indie rock covers of the Wu-Tang Clan could be seen as gimmicky. But local act Ultra Mega manages to walk the tightrope of sincerity on Black Wu Jackets, their...

Taylor Hanson is back, and this time he’s sporting a new hairdo and skinny tie. Yes, that Taylor Hanson. The “MMMBop” one. Now, 12 years after Hanson’s debut single was released (which happened to...

If you listen closely to his lyrics, Keith Buckley, the screaming front-man of Every Time I Die, certainly seems to be a proud man. Yes, if you get past the self deprecating pessimism (a...