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St. Vincent at the McGuire Theater, 10/02/2011

​St. Vincent October 2, 2011 (Early Show)McGuire Theater at the Walker Art CenterWith a light show more fitting for a venue five times the size of the 385-seat McGuire Theater, St. Vincent captivated the sold-out crowd with an artfully arresting flurry of both sight and sound. Frontwoman Ann ... More >>

Paul Rudd in Our Idiot Brother

Long-haired dreamer has profound effect on his siblings

Bon Iver Day declared in Milwaukee as band kicks off tour

Photo via the Milwaukee Bucks​Aside from a few late-night TV stops, Bon Iver has yet to christen their sophomore album, the much lauded and hotly debated Bon Iver, Bon Iver, with a proper live show. That will all change this weekend when the band takes up a two-night residency at the Riverside The ... More >>

Bon Iver set to release new record in June

Photo by Ben ClarkJustin Vernon performing with DeYarmond Edison at SXSW​Justin Vernon has kept mostly quiet about his next Bon Iver record until this week, focusing his energy on his side projects (Gayngs, the recent DeYarmond Edison reunion), and -- oh yeah, collaborating with one of the most fa ... More >>

Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico

Photo by Ben ClarkJustin Vernon performing with DeYarmond Edison at SXSW​Justin Vernon has kept mostly quiet about his next Bon Iver record until this week, focusing his energy on his side projects (Gayngs, the recent DeYarmond Edison reunion), and -- oh yeah, collaborating with one of the most fa ... More >>

Sofia Coppola's journey to Somewhere

New film works with a patient and observational style

A handful of music's best gender-benders

​Lady Gaga's recent spread in the Japanese edition of Vogue was an exercise in tongue-in-cheek banality, posing in a suit and dyed eyebrows as Jo Calderone, explaining how he/she took him/herself out on a date and maybe got it on: "She's fuckin beautiful, and funny, and interesting. I was a little ... More >>

Critic's Picks

​Lady Gaga's recent spread in the Japanese edition of Vogue was an exercise in tongue-in-cheek banality, posing in a suit and dyed eyebrows as Jo Calderone, explaining how he/she took him/herself out on a date and maybe got it on: "She's fuckin beautiful, and funny, and interesting. I was a little ... More >>

Lady Gaga

​Lady Gaga's recent spread in the Japanese edition of Vogue was an exercise in tongue-in-cheek banality, posing in a suit and dyed eyebrows as Jo Calderone, explaining how he/she took him/herself out on a date and maybe got it on: "She's fuckin beautiful, and funny, and interesting. I was a little ... More >>

Is Snooki the next Elizabeth Taylor?

​Was being featured in a high-fashion spread for Harper's Bazaar the start of a lucrative career in fashion? Oddly, the answer may be yes. 

Restrepo exposes the lives of American soliders

Film wins documentary prize at Sundance

Minneapolis is not the "Manliest City" in America

Photo: GoldbergGetting our man on​Damn. We're not as manly as Milwaukee, so we'll let you notch one up there, cheese heads. But Minneapolis still broke the Top 20 in Sperling's annual "America's Manliest Cities" survey. The biggest hunk of American manhood can evidently be found in Nashville, ... More >>

Naked News

Forging a fast track to the front page

Farm Babies

Forging a fast track to the front page

Common Room: Granta Magazine Celebration Party

Forging a fast track to the front page

Zimmern takes another shot

Vincent Laforet

Artists of the Year

We identify the most interesting, influential and inimitable artists of 2007.

Artists of the Year

Christopher Hitchens

Mistakes Were Made

Heather McElhatton isn't a morbidly obese concubine with a thing for primates. How's that for free will?

Culture Clash

The immigrant experience meets the generation gap in Mira Nair's 'Namesake'

3/10: Morning Communique

The immigrant experience meets the generation gap in Mira Nair's 'Namesake'

The Revolution Will Not Be Published?

Swarming with Paparazzi, Sundance Wonders, 'Where's the Media?'

9/15: Morning Communique

Swarming with Paparazzi, Sundance Wonders, 'Where's the Media?'

8/5: Morning Communique

Swarming with Paparazzi, Sundance Wonders, 'Where's the Media?'

"Through cowardice we shall all be safe"

Swarming with Paparazzi, Sundance Wonders, 'Where's the Media?'

6/10: Morning Communique

Swarming with Paparazzi, Sundance Wonders, 'Where's the Media?'

Lost in the Deep Throat Media Blitz: Carl Bernstein's Kid Tabbed Felt in 1988

Last week a former high-ranking FBI official outed himself as the most famous anonymous source of all time--17 years after Carl Bernstein's young son told fellow summer campers on Long Island that W. Mark Felt was DT

Deep Throat's identity revealed;
Bernstein the younger vindicated

Last week a former high-ranking FBI official outed himself as the most famous anonymous source of all time--17 years after Carl Bernstein's young son told fellow summer campers on Long Island that W. Mark Felt was DT

Rain Man-ager

Last week a former high-ranking FBI official outed himself as the most famous anonymous source of all time--17 years after Carl Bernstein's young son told fellow summer campers on Long Island that W. Mark Felt was DT

Rain Man-ager

Last week a former high-ranking FBI official outed himself as the most famous anonymous source of all time--17 years after Carl Bernstein's young son told fellow summer campers on Long Island that W. Mark Felt was DT

Youssou's gospel, Jill Scott's frown

Last week a former high-ranking FBI official outed himself as the most famous anonymous source of all time--17 years after Carl Bernstein's young son told fellow summer campers on Long Island that W. Mark Felt was DT

A Passage to India

'Vanity Fair' remembers the UK empire while Bollywood strikes back

Real Life Rock Top 10

Hughes kisses the devil, Wainwright flirts with activism, and Houston makes out all right

The Invisible Recovery

Author and economist Doug Henwood on jobless recoveries, the two Americas, and the "Wal-Mart effect"

Never Mind The Sex Pistols, Here's Neal Pollack

A snarky writer thinks he's America's greatest living punk

Bring 'em On!

The Bush administration's top 40 lies about war and terrorism

George W. Tush

New doc instructs media how to kiss presidential ass

Cynical, Bitter, Jaded as Hell. Also Naked.

Websites like Suicide Girls provide porn with an indie rock attitude

Barbs and Ken: A sleazy celeb funhouse

A Critic's Diaries Spank His Subjects

Pop Quiz

Putting young R&B singers Alicia Keys and Blu Cantrell to the test

Vanity Fare

With The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, director Luis Buñuel served the have-lots their just deserts

Nick Tosches: The Nick Tosches Reader

With The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, director Luis Buñuel served the have-lots their just deserts

Seeing Stars

Notting Hill chuckles at our mere mortal desire to get up close and personal with the rich and famous

The Prodigal Son

A Revisionist View

His & Hers

A Revisionist View

Bubba Head

There is a certain poetic justice in seeing the president who made Family Values the central theme of his re-election brought low by his own reckless philandering.

Breeding Familiarity

There is a certain poetic justice in seeing the president who made Family Values the central theme of his re-election brought low by his own reckless philandering.

TV Party

There is a certain poetic justice in seeing the president who made Family Values the central theme of his re-election brought low by his own reckless philandering.

Never Set In Stone

There is a certain poetic justice in seeing the president who made Family Values the central theme of his re-election brought low by his own reckless philandering.