Friday, October 21 2011

Lollapalooza 1991: The Underground As a Community

By Dennis Shin

Originally conceived of as a farewell tour for Jane's Addiction, Lollapalooza turned into something even grander: Woodstock for Gen X.

Monday, October 10 2011

New Jack Black: Contemporary Urbanity and Blackness in New Jack City

By R. N. Bradley

Hood films are a jarring eviction notice for traditional Civil Rights rhetoric and, possibly, leadership -- in other words, "What has the Civil Rights movement done for me lately?"

Monday, July 18 2011

The Hate for Southern Hip-Hop: Why So Serious?

By Quentin B. Huff

The way some of us disparage Southern rap, you'd think rappers like Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame had recorded a record dissing Kool G. Rap and Big Daddy Kane.

Tuesday, May 18 2010

Fear of a Rap Parody

By Quentin B. Huff

Underrated in the annals of hip-hop cinema, Rusty Cundieff's Fear of a Black Hat is biting and unflinching, and forces hip-hop fans to stare soberly at the culture's flaws and to revisit their own reasons for loving the music.

Wednesday, February 18 2009

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - The Eighth Year

By Andrew Winistorfer

SVU is stronger than the original show in that it lets you into the lives of the detectives.

Friday, April 6 2007

Despite a high body count of its own, band is a survivor

By Aaron Yoxheimer

Tuesday, September 27 2005

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit / Law & Order

By Cynthia Fuchs

Lynda Carter's villain embodies Cold War momism refitted for the war on terror. The conflagration is inspired.

Monday, October 4 2004

Law & Order / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit / Law & Order: Criminal Intent

By Lesley Smith

D'Onofrio plays Goren superbly, as a jittery autodidact so deeply aware of his own psychological fragility that he has simply abandoned any emotional life outside his own insights into the motivations of major criminals.

Sunday, January 1 1995

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

By Susan Glen

Part of the problem is that the 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' writers haven't given Ice T much to do: he's Munch's Yes Man, and it doesn't become him.

Law & Order

By Rachel Hyland

Though 'Law & Order' frequently, and most chillingly, tells tales of true crime -- the monstrous pit bull is the most recent example -- it also treats them with the dread, indeed, the disgust they deserve.