Movies like Titanic and Life is Beautiful make us realize just how terrible certain events in history were.
"It's a shame about Ray," sings Evan Dando on the title track of The Lemonheads' 1992 breakthrough album -- but the real shame would be if the band's legacy turned out to be marked by their instantly catchy but eventually irritating cover "Mrs. Robinson." It's a Shame About Ray didn't gain much chart traction until it was reissued with their pop-punk version of the Simon & Garfunkel song tacked on to it.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is an undisputed classic. Arguably the greatest album ever made by The Beatles -- who, by general consensus, are the greatest band the world has ever seen -- it was a milestone release in terms of studio innovation, cohesiveness and even album art.
Gnarls Barkley doesn't like to tell you what its music is about. You can listen to songs from both St.
Let's just say it up front -- I've never been a huge White Stripes fan. Even "Seven Nation Army," the duo's biggest hit, was an annoying ditty that had about two notes, and everyone complained that it suffered from a severe lack of bass.
Ah, springtime in Charlottesville. Everyone is enjoying the good weather, the trees and flowers are in bloom, classes for students are winding down, and skirts and shorts make their triumphant return to the sidewalks.
Singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur's lack of recognition is a mystery. By all regards, he should have a much larger fan base than he does.
Whenever I attempt to clean out my iTunes music library, I'm never that successful. I only manage to get rid of the songs I truly hate, while the ones I simply never listen to manage to hold on for a few more weeks until the next time I decide to cleanse my musical chi.
"Before the image / here is the story before the image," concludes the speaker of Jon Pineda's title poem in The Translator's Diary -- although here, his assertive repetition reads like a speaker second-guessing himself.
When I was a sophomore in high school, my English teacher, in an attempt to explain to the class a pun on the word "knowledge" in a poem we were studying, told us that a certain verb too obscene to print outright in this article was originally an acronym for "for unlawful carnal knowledge." This must have been one tidbit in his "fun facts" arsenal, the kind we all keep in our mental back pockets for impressing others with our scraps of erudition. The problem, as anyone with access to a dictionary, snopes.com or a healthy allotment of common sense knows, is that this "fun fact" is completely preposterous.
In a post-Sex and the City world, any novel that follows a career woman through the trials and tribulations of love in New York City instantly draws comparison to the popular Candace Bushnell TV show, novel and soon-to-be movie.
I'm a sucker for ghost movies, particularly those involving spirits of the emaciated, dark-black-haired, Asian female variety.
I'm sure it must have sounded like a great idea -- high school comedy based on a concept by the golden god of '80s teen comedies, John Hughes, written by Seth Rogen, produced by Judd Apatow and starring Owen Wilson.
Up until last week, my experience with The Presidents of the United States of America was limited to hearing "Peaches" on the radio back in grade school.
During my tenure at St. Christopher's Middle School, there were only two things that really mattered to me on the weekends -- WWF wrestling and Nintendo 64.
Why? is the project of Yoni Wolf, previous member of surrealist hip-hop group cLOUDEAD, that began as his solo effort and has evolved into a full-fledged band over the span of three full-lengths and several EPs.
There is a veritable hierarchy in the action movie world. At the top sit movies such as Fight Club -- movies complete with plot, clever characters and realistic combat.
"I don't care what it's all about anymore. I just want to know how to live in it." Doug Grissom's intimate play "So Careless," the University Drama department's latest production, focuses on the harsh struggles life has to offer.
Resting somewhere between classic rock and new wave, Television's 1977 debut Marquee Moon played a crucial part in shaping the sound of the still-nascent post-punk movement.
The Bard graces the Lawn Next week, Shakespeare on the Lawn will present one of William Shakespeare's most popular -- and controversial -- comedies.The Taming of the Shrew tells the story of a strict father who will not allow his beautiful and sweet-tempered daughter, Bianca, marry until her tempestuous older sister, Kate, finds a suitable beau (you may recognize this plot from the Heath Ledger film 10 Things I Hate About You, perhaps the classic's most well-known adaptation). Director Casey Weed chose to set SOTL's version of the show in the post-WWII 1950s, complete with big skirts and swing dancing.
