What is the 'frontera,' the border that separates the United States and Mexico? Is it simply a line drawn in the sand, a potential avenue for illegal immigrants or drugs?
It's been a while since I heard from the Coup. I was in middle school when I first saw the video for "Fat Cats, Bigga Fish," a ghetto allegory about exploitation and corruption in the big city.
T hey can be rubber and stuffy, with eyeholes. They can be applied in front of your bath- room mirror with cakes and powders.
A half a year after its initially scheduled release date, the solo debut album from Jadakiss has finally dropped.
It's been a strange journey for the man they call the "King of Pop." It's hard to compare the young boy in Jackson 5 footage to the Michael Jackson of today, a snow-white waif-thin recluse who's rarely seen in public.
What does it mean to be an original artist? Does it mean the artist is without outside influences, or that he has seen what others can't see?
In film, there are prominent and mostly Western voices. There also are voices that are seldom heard, as well as voices that are never heard at all.
Staring into the welded steel forms of Melvin Edwards' sculptures, you can imagine the callused hands, bruised and tired backs and weathered faces of the black working-class Americans who helped build this country.
The current Live Arts Theatre production of "The Rocky Horror Show" musical should come with a disclaimer: "Warning: If you see this show, be prepared to get dirty - and feel dirty, for that matter." If audience members can keep this in mind, "The Rocky Horror Show" can be a night of uncompromisingly tacky fun. "The Rocky Horror Show" was written by Richard O'Brien and first opened in London in 1973.
"The Professional 2" is not for haters of mainstream hip-hop. In fact, if you are likely to turn the CD off as soon as you hear the voice of Puff Daddy (a.k.a.
