Donald Brown compiles a lively, loving collection
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009
"Fast Forward to the Past:" The title pretty much says it all. These 10 new compositions and well-chosen covers play like a scrapbook of pianist/composer Brown’s favorite sounds. Full story »
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008
From Danny Boyle, one of the liveliest and most worthwhile directors of recent years, comes this modern-day Balzac-ian rags-to-riches tale, a bright and shiny thing of almost no value whatsoever. In Slumdog Millionaire the slums of Paris are now the toxic entrails of a re-industrialized Mumbai, and the deus ex machina of the winning Parisian lottery ticket is an anti-statistical streak through Who Wants to Be a Rupee Millionaire? Full story »
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The Best DVDs of 2008
Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008
On the list: "Chop Shop" and "30 Days of Night" Full story »
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The Black Isle-Bethesda Connection
Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008
It’s impossible to know what greater impetus drives a feral ghoul. I stumbled across a pack them a few nights ago, and the immediacy of their frenzy left me with little time for diplomacy. Their maddened eyes reflecting none of the fear of death inherent to sentient life, they quickly went to work with tooth and claw, seeing no difference between me and their last meal. Full story »
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Oontz Oontz Oontz
Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008
Based upon 1978’s MS-10 analog synth (get the name yet?), XSEED Games’ software adaptation of the classic entry-level KORG hardware marks a significant push forward in console gaming’s largely-ignored side quest to be taken seriously in non-gaming arenas. Full story »
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Designs of Life
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008
UT graduate students Hilary Williams and Jacob Stanley aren’t leaving much up to chance. In an ambitious and highly collaborative exhibition aptly titled Lighting Shadows: Designed Objects in Space, the two artists have transformed the 1010 Gallery on Gay Street into a modernist haven in which the worlds of art and design converge delectably. Full story »
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Osamu Tezuka
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008
Osamu Tezuka is generally regarded as the father of manga, the Japanese comic form that has only recently burst into the mainstream American consciousness. His signature works are the kid-friendly Astro Boy and Kimba the Lion and the epic 12-volume sci-fi/fantasy saga Phoenix, which spans from prehistory to thousands of years into the future. But none of those series have the pulpy psychological punch of Black Jack, Tezuka’s tale of a rogue super-doctor who performs unlicensed surgeries for cash. Full story »
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KSO Brings Holiday Peace
Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008
Expectations aren’t always necessarily high for holiday music concerts. Most concertgoers attend wanting little more than to have a pleasant, entertaining evening with family and friends, and come away with warm, cozy feelings of seasonal good cheer. However, sometimes a concert of holiday music is able to rise above the expected level of traditional entertainment and into the realm of enchanting sophistication. Full story »
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Dancing About Architecture
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008
One of the lessons to be learned from the example of Pilobolus, the esteemed Connecticut-based dance company, might be to think long and hard about the possible consequences of your youthful larks and distractions. Four decades later you might find yourself addressing the board of directors that has assembled to help you manage what has become an international force, within a discipline you’d never thought much about as a young man. Full story »