Raymond Chandler

The Best of SXSW Music: Saturday 3/17/2012

So, we come to it: the end of all things. Four days of madness, Doritos, Skrillex and finally, St. Patrick's Day. Before we bid SXSW 2012 farewell, allow us to share our favorite moments from SXSW day four. Later, we'll let you know which shows weren't so hot. Find our favorites below, and if there ... More >>

City Of Angels at Bloomington Civic Theatre

A strange and compelling take on the musical

The Twin Cities are teeming with artful events this autumn

The Twin Cities are teeming with artful events this autumn

Be inspired by everything from an anime festival to a film noir microcinema

Critics' Picks: Yellow Swans and more

City on the Make

Beantown Boys Make Good

The Brothers Affleck Come Through with a Complex, Sophisticated Boston Crime Drama

Kill the Vultures

Free Will Astrology

A Beautiful Mind

Minnesota-born Paul Nelson was a '60s folk revival pioneer and a founding father of rock writing

Black on Blonde

Where's the best place in the Twin Cities to murder a drifter?

Audio Rorschach

Missing Numbers talk about their heroes, invent new form of genital torture

Dicks Nix Chick's Kicks

Soft Covers. Hard Women. A New Series of Pulps to Savor Over Whiskey from a Plastic Bottle.

Mother, Father, Killer

A new book asks what murder has to do with making babies

Between Planets

Let the heroine carry the big gun: Seven local women writers talk about creating their own worlds- and the problems with life on earth

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

When is knocking out a man's fake teeth a proper art form? The comic books of Azzarello and Risso

Real Life Rock Top 10

David Thomas channels the ghosts of Edward Hopper, Orson Welles, and his own past

The Angels Of Light: Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home

Bigger Than Ebert

Is David Thomson the world's greatest film critic?

Juice

The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You

Everyone is a potential murderer in the malleable moral universe of Patricia Highsmith

Death Warmed Over

Novelist William Kent Krueger's fictional northwoods town is a hotbed of racial tension and cold-blooded murder

It's Giuliani Time

The new Shaft signs on to do the mayor's dirty work

Paperback Writer

All Aboard the Night Train: Martin Amis takes an American holiday in a slender volume of genre fiction.

Out of the Past

Book 'Em!: Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce in L.A. Confidential.

Big Pink

Fitzgerald--Something Gorgeous