Diversions
The Big Quiz
Music Who is not name-checked in Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire?" a. Marlon Brando b. Buddy Holly c. U2 d. Jimi Hendrix e. Malcolm X f. Elvis Presley g. Chubby Checker Which of the following is in the correct chronological order? a. Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath Vol. (4 Comments)
Kaze is in a N.Y. state of mind
Geographically speaking, North Carolina is firmly positioned on the East Coast.
Ask anybody who's ever lived in, or even heard of, the state and they will undoubtedly also categorize North Carolina as being in the South.
Both the East Coast and South have respectfully solidified themselves in the hip hop community and marketplace. (0 Comments)
Nicole Atkins: All better
Things have really taken off recently for Nicole Atkins. The singer has been on a roll, recently scoring a performance on "The Late Show with David Letterman." And Atkins and her band, the Sea, are set to perform at the Local 506 on Saturday. (0 Comments)
Dive recommends
Album From the Vaults Woelv - Tout Seul dans la Forêt en Plein Jour, Avez-Vous Peur?: This disarmingly charming release from French-Canadian, Geneviève Castrée, slipped under a lot of radars last year, but is the type of album that doesn't even require you to understand the lyrics to be affected emotionally. (0 Comments)
Movie shorts
Horton Hears A Who! 3 stars "Horton Hears a Who!" is the latest charming value-teaching movie with cutting-edge computer animation and a bevy of celebrity voices. Based on the book by Dr. Seuss, it's the story of Horton (Jim Carrey), a kind, innocent elephant determined to protect the world of Whoville. (0 Comments)
'Drillbit' screws audiences
Some movies capture the trials and tribulations of high school with the kind of unexpected tenderness and poignancy that hits close to home.
"Drillbit Taylor" is not one of those movies.
Instead of playing a wedding-crashing, lying dirtbag, Owen Wilson shakes it up this time around by playing the dirty, homeless, lying dirtbag Drillbit Taylor. (0 Comments)
'Caramel' a sweet tale of silent love
The women in Nadine Labaki's "Caramel" are sweet and tough, just like the sugary candy that gives the film its name.
But in the Beirut salon Si Belle where the protagonists spend their days, caramel brings as much pain as it does pleasure, and the women find this to be true in love as well as in waxing. (0 Comments)
Music shorts
Science for Girls Science for Girls electronica/pop 4.5 stars While listening to Science for Girls' debut album, expect to feel morphed and transposed into an otherworldly alternate reality. The brainchild of producer and composer Darren Soloman, the album completely sucks in the listener and captivates him fully with each sparkly beat and prickly vocal. (0 Comments)
Still a ways to go for true buff status
What do "The Evil Dead," "Sixteen Candles," "Harold and Maude" and "Bull Durham" have in common?
Well, let me defend myself first.
I've seen the entire Coen Brothers' catalog and lack only a few of the complete Kubrick, Spielberg, Scorsese, Fincher, Linklater, Burton and Spike Lee. (0 Comments)
Murder By Death head to Wild West
The days of the Old West live on in Murder By Death's latest release, Red of Tooth and Claw.
Serving as an unexpected concept album, it's an engaging escape with a quartet of highwaymen moonlighting as the saloon's in-house band.
This is electric cowboy music. (0 Comments)
