Entertainment
Weakling becomes hero
Uncle Sam Wants You!” the posters shouted during the 1940s, but what if you were too scrawny to pass the physical and fight for your country? That’s the dilemma faced by Brooklyn weakling Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) in Captain America: The First Avenger...
reel to reel | Week of July 28, 2011
The 400 Blows François Truffaut sensitively re-creates the trials of his own difficult childhood in The 400 Blows, the film that marked his emergence as one of Europe’s most brilliant auteurs and signaled the beginning of the French New Wave. Talk back after 7 p.m. ...
The tradition lives on
Perhaps the most beautiful thing about bluegrass music — more beautiful, even, than a southern accent over a banjo twang — is the way the genre blurs the line between audience and performer. Songs are passed down and shared and swapped so freely that it’s often hard ...
Frizzle frying up something new
One thing fans can count on with the current Primus tour (with original drummer Jay Lane on board and a new CD on the way) is it won’t be a nostalgia trip...
Twin trouble
The Comedy of Errors is not exactly known for being the most intellectually rigorous member of the Shakespeare canon, even though scholars, perhaps bored with several centuries of excessive analysis of the heavyweight plays, now project layers of new meaning onto the...
Alleged Halle Berry stalker charged in break-in at her home
LOS ANGELES — A man already charged with stalking...
Comic-Con solidifies its status as a major Hollywood player
SAN DIEGO — With great power comes great...
‘Captain America’ is a box-office trouper
LOS ANGELES — "Captain America: The First Avenger...
Singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, multiple Grammy winner, dies at 27
British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse was a...
REVIEW: Fleet Foxes at Fillmore Auditorium, July 21
Fleet Foxes make music that hearkens back to the most euphoric of ’60s folk music, and the final product sounds like a blend of America and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with a touch of Nick Drake. The intricate arrangements on the band's self-titled 2006 debut LP ...
Taxidermist explains how he preserved Lady Gaga’s meat dress for the...
LOS ANGELES — Fortunately, requests to preserve clothing made out of raw meat are rare, Sergio Vigilato admits...
