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Wes Anderson

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2012

    Me As a Pilot: My live show is like watching How I Met Your Mother on really cheap whiskey

    One of the risky things about releasing an album at the end of the year is that it will get lost in the shuffle of year-end lists, but this is something that Minneapolis artist Nick Costa, aka Me As a Pilot, is not concerned about. Although he self-recorded and performs a lot of the parts himself on ... More >>

  • Movies

    December 19, 2012

    2012 Film Critics' Poll

    The critics' picks from best film to best performers

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2012

    The Zombie Pub Crawl 2012 playlist

    Yes boys and girls, Saturday is that magical time of the year when zombies take to the West Bank's local watering holes and now Midway Stadium to get intoxicated with Brain Belt. The Zombie Pub Crawl is upon us, and with zombie-mania more in the media than ever, this year's should be the biggest yet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Spencer McGillicutty (the band) on writerly songwriting and school days

    Spencer McGillicutty -- they're a band, not a person -- mine the sounds of early-'60s AM gold on their third album, All the Happy People! Throughout, the local group swings effortlessly between cotton-candy sweet group sing-a-longs and wistful acoustic balladry. Employing a rotating co-ed cast of f ... More >>

  • Music

    May 23, 2012

    Critics' Picks: Lee "Scratch" Perry, Buck 65, Lil' Kim, and more

    Spencer McGillicutty -- they're a band, not a person -- mine the sounds of early-'60s AM gold on their third album, All the Happy People! Throughout, the local group swings effortlessly between cotton-candy sweet group sing-a-longs and wistful acoustic balladry. Employing a rotating co-ed cast of f ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 16, 2012

    Spencer McGillicutty CD-release show

    Spencer McGillicutty -- they're a band, not a person -- mine the sounds of early-'60s AM gold on their third album, All the Happy People! Throughout, the local group swings effortlessly between cotton-candy sweet group sing-a-longs and wistful acoustic balladry. Employing a rotating co-ed cast of f ... More >>

  • Movies

    January 4, 2012

    Movies much anticipated in 2012

    Red Tails, This Is Forty, and more

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    Great movie and dinner combos for a night in

    Theater prices are for suckas​Dinner and movie nights don't have to break the bank.  Sometimes after a long week it's even easier to whip up a quick meal at home, load up an old flick, and snuggle into the couch, plush and cozy.  Save a little cash and take these suggestions for an ea ... More >>

  • Movies

    November 25, 2009

    Film Highlight: Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Theater prices are for suckas​Dinner and movie nights don't have to break the bank.  Sometimes after a long week it's even easier to whip up a quick meal at home, load up an old flick, and snuggle into the couch, plush and cozy.  Save a little cash and take these suggestions for an ea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Weekend movie guide: The flicks to pick

    Your best bets on the big screen this weekend.

  • News

    September 30, 2009

    Picked to Click 2009: Red Pens voted Twin Cities' best new band

    Celebrating the 10 winners of this year's best-new-bands poll

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2009

    John Hughes dead at 59

    The director of Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles died of a heart attack this afternoon.

  • Music

    September 17, 2008

    Jeremy Messersmith: The Silver City

    The director of Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles died of a heart attack this afternoon.

  • Movies

    August 20, 2008

    Hamlet 2: Not To Be

    Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2008

    Summit Beer Movie Contest Winners Hit the Web

    Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic

  • Columns

    February 27, 2008

    Move Along, Kids

    Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic

  • Arts

    February 27, 2008

    Unlucky Break

    Marvin Gaye's divorce album tops this week's pop culture picks

  • Movies

    January 2, 2008

    Film Highlight: The Royal Tenenbaums

    Marvin Gaye's divorce album tops this week's pop culture picks

  • Movies

    November 21, 2007

    Margot sees family for what it is: prickly

    Marvin Gaye's divorce album tops this week's pop culture picks

  • Movies

    November 14, 2007

    Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

    area theaters, starts Friday

  • Movies

    October 10, 2007

    Strangers on a Train

    Wes Anderson's Road-Trip Tale of Brotherly Love Stings with the Depth (Yes, Depth) of His Whimsy

  • Movies

    July 11, 2007

    'The Wendell Baker Story' Is a Dysfunctional Family Affair

    Luke, Owen, and Andrew Wilson forgot to feed their pet project

  • Music

    November 8, 2006

    Escape Artists

    Modern times got you down? Sneak out of the house, creep down to the docks, and stow away on the good ship Decemberists

  • Movies

    November 2, 2005

    We Don't Live Here Anymore

    'The Squid and the Whale' swims under the surface of divorce

  • News

    August 17, 2005

    Are you there Hollywood? It's me, Diablo

    My adventures (so far) in the screenwriting trade

  • News

    June 29, 2005

    Hollywood's Phantom Menace

    Thirty summers after Jaws attacked intelligent filmmaking, the question remains: Why are the movies so bad? A search for answers with David Thomson

  • Arts

    June 22, 2005

    Boys in the Corner

    Jonathan Safran Foer, Wes Anderson, Conor Oberst, and the new male infantilism

  • News

    January 5, 2005

    We Heart Huckabees!

    The Everything Movie lands on all four of our film critics' top 10 lists

  • Movies

    December 22, 2004

    In Over His Head

    As a filmmaking metaphor, 'The Life Aquatic' is all wet

  • Music

    May 19, 2004

    Get Stuffed

    The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is sometimes hard to swallow

  • Movies

    November 19, 2003

    Spike and Sofia on the Skids?

    Opposite aesthetics would seem to spell splitsville for indie cinema's power couple

  • Movies

    October 22, 2003

    Get Me Gwyneth

    How to remake the New York Film Festival's arthouse esoterica for the midwestern megaplex

  • Music

    May 21, 2003

    The New Pornographers: Electric Version

    How to remake the New York Film Festival's arthouse esoterica for the midwestern megaplex

  • Arts

    January 8, 2003

    The Year In Film

    Three movie critics pick 21 favorites (and only one in common) from 2002.

  • Movies

    July 3, 2002

    Billy Come Lately

    A satirist's belated acclaim mirrors our own screwy self-image

  • Books

    June 5, 2002

    French Tickler

    Catherine Millet remembers yesterday's orgies; Dennis Cooper brutalizes today's teens

  • Movies

    February 6, 2002

    Catching in the Wry

    Nine stories about the Salingeresque quality of Gen X cinema

  • Movies

    December 5, 2001

    Analyze This

    Nine stories about the Salingeresque quality of Gen X cinema

  • Arts

    October 17, 2001

    Movie Matters

    After September 11: Projecting the future of entertainment at the New York Film Festival

  • Movies

    February 3, 1999

    Big Man(child) on Campus

    After September 11: Projecting the future of entertainment at the New York Film Festival

  • Arts

    January 6, 1999

    The Year in Film

    The movies of '98 posed the question: Haven't we seen this somewhere before?

  • Movies

    October 14, 1998

    Coming Attractions?

    A wish list of might-be hits from the New York Film Festival

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