Foxy Brown

The Top 10 Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

A handy guide to summer movies that don't suck

We Were Wrong

City Pages writers look back on 25 years of arts criticism, and the sentences that still make us cringe

Blaxploitation Lost In Translation

Should 'King Arthur' be renamed 'Antoine Fuqua's Baadasssss Song'?

Crossfade Into You

Are DJs mix masters or mess makers? Sometimes, it's hard to tell

The Year in Film

1999 brought a cinematic bounty to the art house and the multiplex alike

Something About Mary

With her humble poise and non-Diva tone, Mary J. Blige is the unlikely heiress to Aretha's throne

Screening New Heights

The ambitious Heights Theatre stretches to bring upscale cinema to an audience outside of Uptown

For the Record

The music industry released 30,000 albums in 1998. You can live without 29,990 of them.

True MCs

Back to Middle School: Wild Pitch reissues hip-hop classics by Gang Starr, the UMC's, Main Source, and Lord Finesse.

Puffy's Money?

No Way Out: Is bean-counter-turned-chart-topper Sean "Puffy" Combs tragically fated to success?

Passing Time

Through a Glass, Darkly: Juanita Moore and Lana Turner in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life

Color Thee Bad

Through a Glass, Darkly: Juanita Moore and Lana Turner in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life

Industry Speak

Through a Glass, Darkly: Juanita Moore and Lana Turner in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life