Entertainment
Matt Costa can’t escape from Jack Johnson’s shadow
What the hell is Matt Costa doing on Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records? Everything about his music should be the anti-Jack Johnson, the personification of California’s oxymoronic laid-back image. Costa’s work on his latest album, Mobile Chateau, is laced with ’60s ...
Still protesting
Joan Baez is one of the leading protest singers of the past 50 years and one of the most outspoken activists on behalf of enough causes to fill a notebook, including peace, civil rights, women’s rights and human rights...
Time for Three’s classical garage rock
What do you get when you combine classical music training with a garage-band mentality...
Do it in the Dirt
The members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band make up one of those musical ensembles that has always defied category. For hyphen-happy reviewers, there never seemed to be enough dashes to capture the band’s ever-evolving essence...
Oliver Stone fires back at critics of his latest, ‘South of...
LOS ANGELES — It's a Monday night in Los Angeles, and Oliver Stone is causing trouble...
There will be couplets
In this age of MTV’s Jersey Shore — or for that matter an age in which Pauly Shore still gets work in direct-to-video dreck like Adopted — a mockumentary about Shore trying to follow in Angelina Jolie’s footsteps by adopting an African child — we must circle the ...
Lindsay Lohan sentenced to 90 days in jail, 90 days in...
LOS ANGELES — A Beverly Hills judge Tuesday sentenced Lindsay Lohan...
Worlds of sci-fi and horror collide in ‘Predators’
Bacon and eggs. Stripes and solids. Lennon and...
Sam and Max deliver the laughs again
 It was a boring weekday night when I stumbled across what I thought was a relic from my youth: a Sam and Max video game, fully restored and buyable from the Playstation Network store. But I was wrong. Delightfully wrong. The game I had found was Sam & Max: The Devil...
