CINEMA

 » Dig! The Movie - ARCHIVED: Peter Lindblad sits down with the captivating documentary of the history between the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre, a relationship that can only be described as bizarre. As a bonus, we've added a link to stream the entire film, for free.

CINEMA

 » The Dark Knight - Is director Christopher Nolan the Dark Knight of twenty-first century cinema? Perhaps, but even if not there is no denying that Heath Ledger's swan song makes LAS cinema critic Susan Howson want to cry. Yeah, it is THAT real!

FESTIVALS

 » Pitchfork 2008 Postview - Despite a roster laden with too many new and little-known (cheaper?) bands, P4KMF2008 was a success. The lineup was diverse, the weather was projectedly spotty, the beer was plentiful, and the crowds were huge. Josh Zanger and Jon Burke report on the action.

CINEMA

 » Dig! The Movie - ARCHIVED: Peter Lindblad sits down with the captivating documentary of the history between the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre, a relationship that can only be described as bizarre. As a bonus, we've added a link to stream the entire film, for free.

CINEMA

 » The Dark Knight - Is director Christopher Nolan the Dark Knight of twenty-first century cinema? Perhaps, but even if not there is no denying that Heath Ledger's swan song makes LAS cinema critic Susan Howson want to cry. Yeah, it is THAT real!

FESTIVALS

 » Pitchfork 2008 Postview - Despite a roster laden with too many new and little-known (cheaper?) bands, P4KMF2008 was a success. The lineup was diverse, the weather was projectedly spotty, the beer was plentiful, and the crowds were huge. Josh Zanger and Jon Burke report on the action.

MUSIC

 » Portishead - When reconsidering the band's recently-released third studio album, which he considers the ugliest record he's heard in some time, LAS staff writer Dan Williams can no longer deny that the shakes it gives him are not bad. After six months Third is truly a blessing as a puzzle worth parsing.

CINEMA

 » Wholphin - Composed of "Rare and Unseen Short Films," this DVD magazine from the McSweeney's publishing house is a treasure trove of visual delight with a staggering breadth of content. LAS staffer Mike Shea does the math and finds that McSweeney's + Short Films = Awesomazing.

PHOTOGRAPHY

 » Rain City Fix - "Bikes are awesome, I don't care what they look like, how many gears or in what condition they are in." An interview with Aaron Edge, the editor of a new book collecting Brenton Salo's photographs of the fixed-gear bike community in Seattle.

CINEMA

 » Hellboy II - In reviewing Guillermo del Toro's latest film, LAS cinema critic Susan Howson is damned if she does, damned if she don't, and as such she chooses to take the low road and infuriate every dude she knows by declaring this comic book-based sequel the "most solid 5/10 movie I've seen in a long time."

FESTIVALS

 » Pitchfork 2008 Preview - With its third annual run at Chicago's Union Park, one of the web's biggest musical tastemakers' banner event is sure to be another mildly intoxicating weekend of snobby hipsters, sexy audiophiles and musician sightings. Josh Zanger and Jon Burke tally a short preview.

CINEMA

 » Contempt - Enjoying another resurgence, director Jean-Luc Godard's cinematic classic, starring Brigitte Bardot and Jack Palance, is showing in theaters again. Jonah Flicker revisits the 1963 film, restored to a new 35mm print and touring the US this summer, including a run at the Nuart Theater in Los Angeles this week.

COMICS

 » Cash Rulez - A year after their club collaborations with Juicy Flow, the Cash Rules duo have broken out onto HotFM radio. Their verses, now contemporary summer classics, can be heard blasting from ice cream truck boom boxes around the city, prompting double-scooped, waffle-coned, water-plug-poppin freestyle outbursts.

CINEMA

 » Punk's Not Dead - At the same time retrospective, analytical, nostalgic, political and iconographic, Susan Dynner's indie documentary is a pleasantly scatter-brained examination, loosely centered on the ethics of Punk's cooption and commercialization in modern music's most unruly genre.

COLUMN

 » Glaciers of Ice: Volume 31 - With summer blasting full scale, LAS hip-hop resident Jonah Flicker feels the heat in Los Angeles, where the music has been mostly fire… with some ice thrown in just for good measure. An early summer listening guide notes the high points for July.

CINEMA

 » Machine Girl - Fans of The Evil Dead trilogy, the films of John Woo and Japanese anime will all find something to like in the immensely gory Tokyo Shock production of a story about a girl, her gun arm, and her gruesome killing spree.

CINEMA

 » Encounters at the End of the World - Another idiosyncratic and exceptional statement from one of contemporary cinema's greatest directors, Werner Herzog's new feature film, centered on Antarctica, fuels his approach to life as a "chain of catastrophes." The film had its premiere at New York's Film Forum earlier this month and will begin a theatrical run on Friday.

PHOTOGRAPHY

 » Toy Cameras - These unsubstantial, plastic film cameras particularly dominated the Chinese markets between the 1960s and 80s, when they were mass-produced and favoured predominantly for being inexpensive and readily available. Now, in the digital era, they're making a comeback.