MATT COSTA Unfamiliar Faces Brushfire Despite the name, the faces on this Huntington Beach-based singer-songwriter's sophomore disc aren't exactly unfamiliar: There's the...
LEVON HELM Dirt Farmer Dirt Farmer/Vanguard The first solo studio album in a quarter-century by former Band stalwart Levon Helm is miraculous not because it won a Grammy just...
1. Times New Viking, Rip It Off (Matador) 2. Cat Power, Jukebox (Matador) 3. Bonnie Prince Billy, Wilding in the West (Spunk/Drag City) 4. Skoal Kodiak, 3 People Are Keep...
KIMYA DAWSON AND ANTSY PANTS "Tree Hugger" Maybe it's the dorky dad in me, but I'm coming 'round to Dawson's so-cutesy-you-wanna-puke Children's Television Network-ish...
WEDNESDAY 2.13 Linkin Park Xcel Energy Center In the '90s, disaffected youth could turn to Nine Inch Nails for comfort, pasting their anxious, angry scowls into Trent...
TOP PICK – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Warner)Brad Pitt stars as the legendary outlaw in this meditative movie (now out on DVD), which...
NO MORE HEROESUbisoftNintendo WiiWhen it comes to giving a game a vibe, "awesome" is an easy mark to hit. Explosions, hot chicks, macho one-liners, and salivating mutants are...
No Reservations (Warner Bros.)From its cheap, mid-'90s-looking package to its woefully scant extras (one pre-chewed Food Network behind-the-scenes, blech) to its...
DEFINITELY, MAYBE directed by Adam Brooks area theaters, starts Thursday Sandwiched somewhere between the American Spirit commercials and the Clinton campaigning that make up...
2007 ACADEMY AWARD-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS Lagoon Cinema, starts Friday With two feature films in theaters now that were directed by the 2005 and 2006 Oscar winners for Best...