Academy Awards

Killer Joe's William Friedkin on what's wrong with Hollywood

Studio films "just aren't for me—comic book characters, video games, idiotic rom-coms," the director says.

Maruso re-creates street food from around the world

Dishes from pierogies to bahn mi are under $10

Summer movie preview

A look ahead at the season's hottest films

James Beard Award finalists announced

​While Minnesota chefs and restaurants were well-represented when the semifinalists were announced, fewer were recognized as finalists.  The James Beard Awards are regarded as the Oscars of the culinary world. Here are the local nominees who made the cut:

Three 6 Mafia

​While Minnesota chefs and restaurants were well-represented when the semifinalists were announced, fewer were recognized as finalists.  The James Beard Awards are regarded as the Oscars of the culinary world. Here are the local nominees who made the cut:

5 foods inspired by Oscars nominees

​For the purposes of party menu-planning, it's a good thing that so many of this year's Best Picture nominees are set in food-centric locales, from The Descendants in Kaua'i to Midnight in Paris in, well, Paris, obviously. The Hot Dish is bringing you some of our favorite foods inspired by this ye ... More >>

Oscar Night America

​For the purposes of party menu-planning, it's a good thing that so many of this year's Best Picture nominees are set in food-centric locales, from The Descendants in Kaua'i to Midnight in Paris in, well, Paris, obviously. The Hot Dish is bringing you some of our favorite foods inspired by this ye ... More >>

Oscar-nominated shorts in brief

"La Luna," "A Morning Stroll," and more

Mark Mallman tour diary, Vol. 10: The sea! The sea!

​The game is won on the field. Some bits of advice are impossible to follow to fruition. "The game is won on the field, Mallman." This is the kind of hodge-podge rhetoric that makes so much sense, you end up feeling like shit about yourself because you can never live up to it. Life is not won. If ... More >>

Minnesota Opera: Silent Night

​The game is won on the field. Some bits of advice are impossible to follow to fruition. "The game is won on the field, Mallman." This is the kind of hodge-podge rhetoric that makes so much sense, you end up feeling like shit about yourself because you can never live up to it. Life is not won. If ... More >>

Manhattan Short Film Festival

​The game is won on the field. Some bits of advice are impossible to follow to fruition. "The game is won on the field, Mallman." This is the kind of hodge-podge rhetoric that makes so much sense, you end up feeling like shit about yourself because you can never live up to it. Life is not won. If ... More >>

Coen brothers plan film on '60s folk scene

​This year was another critical success for the Coen brothers as their remake of True Grit received Oscar nominations and solid reviews from critics. But the duo never rest for long between hits. Variety recently announced that their next project will be a retro piece exploring the '60s folk sc ... More >>

Summer Movie Series

​This year was another critical success for the Coen brothers as their remake of True Grit received Oscar nominations and solid reviews from critics. But the duo never rest for long between hits. Variety recently announced that their next project will be a retro piece exploring the '60s folk sc ... More >>

Dana Gould

​This year was another critical success for the Coen brothers as their remake of True Grit received Oscar nominations and solid reviews from critics. But the duo never rest for long between hits. Variety recently announced that their next project will be a retro piece exploring the '60s folk sc ... More >>

Free First Saturday: Going to the Movies

​This year was another critical success for the Coen brothers as their remake of True Grit received Oscar nominations and solid reviews from critics. But the duo never rest for long between hits. Variety recently announced that their next project will be a retro piece exploring the '60s folk sc ... More >>

Crunching on popcorn gets a man killed during a screening of "Black Swan"

A man is shot and killed during a screening of "Black Swan" for eating his popcorn too audibly

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2011

The Confession, The Sun Comes Up, The Lost Thing

Thom Pham hosts Oscar nominations this Week in Food

We'll see these guys in hell. ​It's a star-studded Week in Food with Thom Pham hosting an Oscar nomination breakfast at his Wondrous Kitchen and Chino Latino honoring this year's hottest celebrity--the rabbit. Tuesday 1/25 Thom Pham hosts an Oscar-worthy celebration to benefit the Aegis Foundat ... More >>

Mimosa Movies: Funny Girl

We'll see these guys in hell. ​It's a star-studded Week in Food with Thom Pham hosting an Oscar nomination breakfast at his Wondrous Kitchen and Chino Latino honoring this year's hottest celebrity--the rabbit. Tuesday 1/25 Thom Pham hosts an Oscar-worthy celebration to benefit the Aegis Foundat ... More >>

The Way It Wasn't (Celebrating Ten Years of Castillo/Corrales, Paris)

We'll see these guys in hell. ​It's a star-studded Week in Food with Thom Pham hosting an Oscar nomination breakfast at his Wondrous Kitchen and Chino Latino honoring this year's hottest celebrity--the rabbit. Tuesday 1/25 Thom Pham hosts an Oscar-worthy celebration to benefit the Aegis Foundat ... More >>

Diablo Cody's "Tight" reimagines "Hung" and it's NSFW

​If you haven't seen Hung, the series about to start its second season on HBO, it's about a guy who's struggling to keep his life together until he learns he learns that his unusually generous endowment means he can make bank as a male prostitute.It was probably only a matter of time before satiri ... More >>

Diablo Cody's "Tight" reimagines "Hung" and it's NSFW

​If you haven't seen Hung, the series about to start its second season on HBO, it's about a guy who's struggling to keep his life together until he learns he learns that his unusually generous endowment means he can make bank as a male prostitute.It was probably only a matter of time before sa ... More >>

The Hump restaurant in CA charged w/serving endangered whale meat

Eating endangered animals = not cool.

Oscar Night 2010

Eating endangered animals = not cool.

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2010: Film Highlight

Eating endangered animals = not cool.

Weekend movie guide: See it or flee it?

You've got 10 bucks and two hours, and you don't want to waste any of it. We can help.

2009 British Television Advertising Awards

You've got 10 bucks and two hours, and you don't want to waste any of it. We can help.

Diablo Cody talks backlash in Guardian interview

How strange can the backlash against her success be? Pretty darned strange.

Andre Dubus III

How strange can the backlash against her success be? Pretty darned strange.

Minn. Gophers as NCAA champs? Let's stop pretending

We would all like to see the University of Minnesota shock the world and make us NCAA champions. Unfortunately the experts don't give us much of a chance.

Best Picture Showcase

We would all like to see the University of Minnesota shock the world and make us NCAA champions. Unfortunately the experts don't give us much of a chance.

Best Picture Showcase

We would all like to see the University of Minnesota shock the world and make us NCAA champions. Unfortunately the experts don't give us much of a chance.

Best Picture Showcase

We would all like to see the University of Minnesota shock the world and make us NCAA champions. Unfortunately the experts don't give us much of a chance.

City Pages alumni watch: Star Tribune is thankful for Diablo Cody

Minn. man uses Hudson family murders as gun promotion

Ten Second Film Festival

Watching the Oscars? See the Best Picture Posters

Film Highlight

2007 Academy Award-Nominated Short Films

8/13 Morning Communiqué

2007 Academy Award-Nominated Short Films

3/12 Morning Communiqué

2007 Academy Award-Nominated Short Films

12/06 Morning Communiqué

2007 Academy Award-Nominated Short Films

11/08 Morning Communiqué

2007 Academy Award-Nominated Short Films

7/26 Morning Communiqué

2007 Academy Award-Nominated Short Films

3/9: Morning Communique

2007 Academy Award-Nominated Short Films

A triple-feature just for Oscar night

2007 Academy Award-Nominated Short Films

3/2: Morning Communique

2007 Academy Award-Nominated Short Films

2/20: Morning Communique

2007 Academy Award-Nominated Short Films

The Dream Dump Made Divine

2007 Academy Award-Nominated Short Films

Treat or Treat

Take time to stop and eat the chocolate