Movie Reviews & Stories At the 2009 Tony Awards, Poison singer Bret Michaels performed his band’s 20-year-old party anthem “Nothin’ but a Good Time” in conjunction with Rock of Ages, a Broadway musical glorifying   More

Movie Reviews & Stories At this point, it’s clear Adam Sandler is just trolling us. He’s self-aware enough to know he’s the laziest, most cash-grabbingest comic actor in the country. You can’t even hate him for    More

Performance Nick Kroll isn’t a spiteful, paranoid, self-centered prick, he just plays one on TV. On FX’s The League, the 34-year-old stand-up comic and actor portrays Rodney Ruxin, a Napoleonic product li   More

Brew Views It’s a testament to Prince’s musical genius that no one remembers Purple Rain for the horrendous acting and blatant misogyny. If he hadn’t written the greatest movie soundtrack of all time t   More

Movie Reviews & Stories In Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s long-anticipated return to the science-fiction genre, the director confronts a...   More

Q & A In Joyce Goodman’s day, every girl in Portland dreamed of being crowned queen of the Rose Festival. That...
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Brew Views Cyril is the kid in The Kid With a Bike, and he’s got some issues. A pale, sinewy 11-year-old, he’s been discarded by his parents at a Belgian boys’ home. He’s almost feral: He scampers    More

Movie Reviews & Stories This Is Not a Film opens with Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi alone at his breakfast table, spreading jam on flatbread and talking to a friend over speakerphone. “I’m stuck in a problem,” he    More

Music Stories [POST-CLASSICAL] For three years, Emily Wells has carried the Notorious B.I.G. on her back. In 2009, the Texas-born singer-producer went into the studio and, in her distinctive warble, recited t   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Something is terribly wrong with the world when we’re getting a third Men in Black movie and still don’t know what happened after...   More