Sep 18, 2010 Music Issue #32 - Summer 2010 - Wasted on the Youth

It’s hard to forget the frenetic, desperate energy of The Walkmen’s breakout album, 2004’s Bows + Arrows, when listening to just about everything else they’ve recorded.  More

Sep 17, 2010 Music Issue #32 - Summer 2010 - Wasted on the Youth

“You fetishistize the archetype,” of Montreal ringleader Kevin Barnes chides on track “Like a Tourist.” Perhaps he’s scolding himself. On False Priest, Barnes once again calls on the cabaret king archetype he’s carefully constructed over the past nine albums, inhabiting the role of glitter-dipped, master of ceremonies with the ease of an old shirt. More

Sep 16, 2010 TV Web Exclusive

Writer Terence Winter (The Sopranos) delivers the most exciting new series in recent history with Boardwalk Empire, a sweeping Prohibition gangster saga that redefines the boundaries of television storytelling.

Sep 16, 2010 Cinema Web Exclusive

The directorial debut of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Goes Boating centers around the socially awkward Jack, a limo driver played by Hoffman who seems to suffer from a borderline case of Asperger syndrome, and his courtship with the equally quirky Connie, played by Amy Ryan (The Wire, The Office). More

Sep 16, 2010 Cinema Web Exclusive

In this film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s (The Remains of the Day) celebrated novel, Carey Mulligan plays Kathy, an intuitive but inhibited English boarding school girl who has grown up alongside her two closest friends, Tommy (Andrew Garfield) and Ruth (Keira Knightley). On a fateful afternoon, the children learn the shared secret to their purpose at the school, and this complicates a love struggle among the three friends as they mature. More

Sep 15, 2010 Music Issue #32 - Summer 2010 - Wasted on the Youth

Magic Kids’ glittery retro-pop debut was named Memphis for good reason. Doug Easley recorded the summery record at his River City studio, and, like its namesake, Memphis serves as a meeting point for R&B, rock ‘n’ roll, girl groups, and soul.  More

Sep 15, 2010 Cinema Web Exclusive

If you buy into directors Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost’s claim that Catfish began as a document of the Facebook friendship between New York City photographer Yaniv “Nēv” Schulman (Ariel’s brother) and Abby, an eight-year-old painter who found inspiration in Nēv’s ballet photos, then you’re in for a fascinating, wildly entertaining journey through today’s tangled web of social networking and Internet sharing. More

Sep 14, 2010 Music Web Exclusive

The singing is simply pleasant, the lyrics, banal (sample: “It takes you down at the speed of sound/when you’re on the ground you never think that you’ll get up”), and the instrumentals float in and out as though tinged by that mysterious leaf that is on the cover (Hint: it aint’ oregano). So what exactly makes jj’s debut album jj nº 2  (recently released by new home, Secretly Canadian) so darn appealing? More

Sep 13, 2010 Music Web Exclusive

As suggested by the simple title of their fourth album, Interpol pares down their sound, reducing the flourishes and touches that have crept into their music since their debut, 2002's immaculate Turn on the Bright Lights. More