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Music Such Nice Boys: An Interview With Terry Six By Jennifer Kelly [28.Feb.07] :. Two years after the tragic automobile accident that killed three of his bandmates, surviving Exploding Hearts guitarist Terry Six is back with a new power pop/glam-rocking band called the Nice Boys. "I came to realize that I'm not sure I know how to do anything else but play music and write music and love music," said Six. "That's all I can do."

DVDs Lest We Should Forget By Chadwick Jenkins [27.Feb.07] :. The unanticipated moments, the flickering images of people dying and afraid, make the War Chronicles series a haunting testimony to the tribulations of the individual despite the script's framing narrative depicting the nearly anonymous unfolding of events.

Film Barbarians at the Gate By Shaun Huston [27.Feb.07] :. In addition to enabling collaboration and sharing, recently developed social open sourcing technologies -- sometimes called Web 2.0 or the read-write web -- make it possible to cultivate communities of interest around a particular film and even short-circuit normal promotional efforts and theatrical distribution.

Music Sister Rosetta Tharpe got rock rolling long before Elvis By Dan DeLuca [26.Feb.07] :. The late, great Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a one-of-a-kind pioneer of 20th-century American music.

Music Now Hear This: Patrick Wolf [London] By James Evans [26.Feb.07] :. Flamboyant, extravagant, even audacious, Patrick Wolf's public image may have garnered him some notoriety, but it's his skill with songcraft that has won him praise. Now Wolf stands poised to tackle the mainstream with his forthcoming The Magic Position.

Culture Sorting Out Farrakhan’s Legacy By Earl Ofari Hutchinson [25.Feb.07] :. Farrakhan has been both vilified as an anti-Semite and also deified for championing the interests of the black poor.

Music MacGuffin Pop By Zeth Lundy [23.Feb.07] :. Randy Newman's latest Academy Award nomination makes it easy to forget how truly deceptive his songwriting really is. His music, which rarely wanders far from New Orleans R&B, ragtime, or Brill Building pop, is the stuff of familiarity and comfort, an unassuming foundation of Americana into which subversive (confrontational, even) ideas can be planted.

Music Beats and Geeks By Cary Darling [22.Feb.07] :. White rappers merge the worlds of hip-hop and computers in an underground scene called 'nerdcore'.

TV The Bluth Company vs. Dunder Mifflin By Kristin Boyers [22.Feb.07] :. Why couldn’t Arrested Development find a mass audience when The Office is thriving?

Film Shallow Graves By Michael Patrick Brady [21.Feb.07] :. Martin Scorsese's hotly tipped Oscar fave, The Departed, plumbs the depths of the psychological and sociological motives of violence, loyalty, and duty.

Music Pretty Surfaces, Sharp Edges: An Interview With Wet Confetti By Jennifer Kelly [21.Feb.07] :. Wet Confetti's Alberta Poon fronts a three-person band that's drawing comparisons to Delta 5, X-Ray Spex, and the Au Pairs. Funny, though, she says she and her two band-mates never heard of post-punk until after they started making music.

Music Dixie-chicked By Cynthia Fuchs [20.Feb.07] :. Introducing the Chicks' Grammys performance, Joan Baez called them "three brave women who are still 'not ready to make nice.'" It may be the long way, but it's the right way too.

Music Bright Eyes: In Defense of Preciousness By Sarah Feldman [20.Feb.07] :. Despite all the self-absorption, and directly in spite of criticisms about the brittle timber of Conor Oberst's much commented on voice, Feldman lays her love for Bright Eyes out in public to defend the mysterious power of the hope that slips through the cracks in Bright Eyes' usually gloomy demeanor.

Music From Love Songs to the Fake Mafia: An Interview with the Queers By Matthew A. Stern [19.Feb.07] :. After 25 years, Joe Queer has opinions on sex, death, and, more important, punk, but he knows to keep it all in perspective with a sense of humor.

Music The Redemption of Daphne Rubin-Vega By Christian John Wikane [19.Feb.07] :. On her new album, Redemption Songs, Broadway star Daphne Rubin-Vega provides the antidote to the 24-hour cycle of bad news that framed our worldview in 2006, a collection of songs that stirs the soul and feeds the spirit.

Music Electric Light Orchestra: Too Much at Once Can Blow the Fuse By Rob Horning [16.Feb.07] :. Alone, ELO's pop mini-symphonies are perfect confections that captivate with their careful sonic details and ear-pleasing melodies and hooks.

Sports The Fast and the Curious By Chip Compton [16.Feb.07] :. Media Darling Danica Patrick may never take the checkered flag. But does that matter?

Books Permission to Follow: Interview with Juliet McMains By Nona Willis-Aronowitz [15.Feb.07] :. PopMatters talks to dancer and author Juliet McMains about how the forces driving DanceSport mirror American national identity: desire for both passionate abandon and steadfast rules, obsession with self-improvement and comfortable gender roles, and craving for a little thing called Glamour.

Film Love and Frogs: Dating John Waters By Michael Franco [14.Feb.07] :. The unique filmmaker talks about his sweet compilation, his extreme romantic tastes, and the definitive way to divorce.

Music A Culture’s Sad Finale? By Howard Reich [13.Feb.07] :. It won't be long now -- maybe just months -- before we know if the glorious swamp culture of New Orleans has been washed away for good.

Culture The Kink Continuum By Claire Litton [13.Feb.07] :. When Jason Fortuny baited BSDM fetishists on Craigslist, he exposed their personal information -- and our society's rampant sexual hypocrisy.

Super Bowl XLI: Prince(s), Winners, and Heirs Apparent Edited by Tobias Peterson [12.Feb.07] :. We came, we saw, we snacked. From the princes on the field to the Prince on stage, PopMatters' writers present the ultimate postgame analysis of this year's ultimate game in this three-piece special section.

Music Dirty Faces By Jennifer Kelly [11.Feb.07] :. Grimy, blue-collar rock and roll... or is it? Dirty Faces' Get Right with God would be the most intense and powerful straight rock record of the year. That is, if it really were a straight rock record.

Film From the Inside, Looking Out By Brian Holcomb [9.Feb.07] :. Holcomb speaks with writer-director Djinn, director of Perth. Djinn hails from Singapore, a small nation of avid movie goers who, like their film industry and their country, says Djinn, are 'always looking outward.'

Culture The Terrorists of Our Imagination Aren’t Muslims… They’re Us By Anneli Rufus [8.Feb.07] :. Terrorism is now the stuff of fiction, as a glance at the best-seller lists will attest. But while Islamic plotters make the headlines, the terrorists we find on the bookshelves live in our own backyard.

Music All Stones Unturned By Tony Sclafani and Jason Gross [8.Feb.07] :. PopMatters hunts for gems in the Rolling Stones' unreleased 1960s recordings.

Culture Salon Language By Francis Raven [7.Feb.07] :. Communicating aesthetic ideals and desires is daunting, even for artists. When you’re not the artist, it's even more difficult. But this is exactly the predicament in the hair salon.

Culture America’s Pony By Phoebe Kate Foster [7.Feb.07] :. Despite a short career in a dying sport, Barbaro brought something special to a nation suffering a widespread poverty of hope and deficit of inspiration.

Music It Always Rains in Their California: An Interview With Menomena By Eddie Ciminelli [6.Feb.07] :. From perilous weather to zealous computer-lovers to instrumental dance accompaniments, the band persists.

Music Fountains of Pain By George Reisch [6.Feb.07] :. Why does a band so gifted at crafting pleasing pop feel the need to lash out at losers and demand we chortle at half-baked stereotypes?

Music Few Musicians Have Won a Wider Audience for Jazz By Charles Leroux [5.Feb.07] :. Has jazz legend Ramsey Lewis ever considered any career other than music? "Well, I'd watch Michael Jordan play and I'd think, 'I'll do that in the next life.' But for now, just put me at a piano and I'm happy."

Music May I Refer to Myself in the Third Person?: An Interview With Bobby Conn By Jennifer Kelly [5.Feb.07] :. For more than a decade, prog/glam/disco terrorist Bobby Conn has been confounding interviewers with almost-plausible tales of career life as the antichrist and a mysterious missing finger, and now there's the risk that Tom and Katie might sue for libel.

Culture Don’t Mess With Texas:  The Lone Star State Loses Its Greatest Spitfire By Terry Sawyer [4.Feb.07] :. Molly Ivins was one of the world's most gifted bar stool philosophers, someone who effortlessly segued into the world of ideas from the sure-footed ground of details.

Music The Critical Untimeliness of Ultimate Prince By Dante A. Ciampaglia [2.Feb.07] :. A look at the Ultimate Prince that almost never was, the two Prince fans caught up in this final Warner Bros. project, and the prince of the SuperBowl XLI halftime show who may, ultimately, save the record.

TV Cavemen R Us By Michael E. Ross [1.Feb.07] :. GEICO's recent ad campaign offers yet another example of the ongoing search for cultural groups we can mock in public.

Culture Twilight of the Idols By Imran Siddiquee [1.Feb.07] :. When Nietzsche conceived of the superman, he didn't have a musclebound alien in red tights in mind. Rather, the hero of Superman Returns is an affront to human potential.

Technology Apple Computers: Fun for You, Toxic for the Environment By Jess Hemerly [1.Feb.07] :. Apple positions itself as the technological haven for the hip, the progressive, and the revolutionary. But when it comes to the environment, Apple is quite out of touch.

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