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» Blood into Wine - Any big fan of Maynard James Keenan knows that the Tool/A Perfect Circle/Puscifer frontman has been living a double life for the past several years as a winemaker/entrepreneur. But seeing as the charismatic Keenan is not the most media-friendly of musicians, it's a rare feat to get an in-depth glimpse into what the man's other passion project entails.[08.26.2010 by Kiran Aditham]
LITERATURE
» The Red Queen - Phillipa Gregory revisits England during the War of the Roses.[08.23.2010 by Bridget Doyle]
COLUMN
» Missed the Boat #6: Supergroups and Solo Surprises - In a time when more albums than ever are being made and fewer publications can afford to exist, more gatekeepers than ever are needed to separate the wheat from the chaff. Here's this month's batch of unreviewed but worth your time records that may have been overlooked.[08.16.2010 by Dan Weiss]
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CINEMA
» Blood into Wine - Any big fan of Maynard James Keenan knows that the Tool/A Perfect Circle/Puscifer frontman has been living a double life for the past several years as a winemaker/entrepreneur. But seeing as the charismatic Keenan is not the most media-friendly of musicians, it's a rare feat to get an in-depth glimpse into what the man's other passion project entails.[08.26.2010 by Kiran Aditham]
LITERATURE
» The Red Queen - Phillipa Gregory revisits England during the War of the Roses.[08.23.2010 by Bridget Doyle]
COLUMN
» Missed the Boat #6: Supergroups and Solo Surprises - In a time when more albums than ever are being made and fewer publications can afford to exist, more gatekeepers than ever are needed to separate the wheat from the chaff. Here's this month's batch of unreviewed but worth your time records that may have been overlooked.[08.16.2010 by Dan Weiss]
COLUMN
» Glaciers of Ice: Volume 51 - After taking a much-needed break upon delivering the 50th installment back in May, the monthly hip-hop roundup resumes with cuts from San Franciso, the UK, and the El-P.[07.15.2010 by Jonah Flicker]
LITERATURE
» 33 1/3: Illmatic - Matthew Gasteier's entry into the mostly excellent and informative 33 1/3 book series tackles the Holy Grail of hip-hop, Nas's 1994 debut, Illmatic.[07.09.2010 by Jonah Flicker]
CINEMA
» Micmacs - French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has made a career out of playfulness. His oeuvre consists of visual spectacles that childishly and beautifully grapple with universal themes of love, death, and redemption, all the while remaining hyper-aware that they exist within the medium of film.[07.08.2010 by Jonah Flicker]
COLUMN
» Missed the Boat #5 - In a time when more albums than ever are being made and fewer publications can afford to exist, more gatekeepers than ever are needed to separate the wheat from the chaff. Here's this month's batch of unreviewed but worth your time records that may have been overlooked.[07.07.2010 by Dan Weiss]
LITERATURE
» 33 1/3: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Whereas Geeta Dayal's well-intentioned Another Green World book started to shore up my impatience for an album where I was usually able to ignore Phil Collins' playing credits, Christopher R. Weingarten performs a minor miracle and brings me around to an album I always found slightly overrated for its massive impact.[07.07.2010 by Dan Weiss]
MUSIC
» Broken Social Scene: LIVE - Without even an opening act the Canadian collective plummeted on stage to begin one of their biggest shows since the release of the new Forgiveness Rock Record.[05.28.2010 by Brian Christopher Jones]
LITERATURE
» White Queen, The - Best known for her Tudor Family-inspired novels, like the best-selling The Other Boleyn Girl, here Phillipa Gregory revisits England during the War of the Roses, a time and place where cousins and brothers destroy each other for a chance at the throne.[05.25.2010 by Bridget Doyle]
COLUMN
» Missed the Boat #4 - In a time when more albums than ever are being made and fewer publications can afford to exist, more gatekeepers than ever are needed to separate the wheat from the chaff. Here's this month's batch of unreviewed but worth your time records that may have been overlooked.[05.24.2010 by Dan Weiss]
CINEMA
» Trash Humpers - Harmony Korine, the B-List Spike Jonze, will be on hand to open his latest film at Los Angeles' NuArt Theatre tonight. If you enjoyed Korine's bizarre past work, you're in for a treat. You're probably also retarded. This time around people actually have sex with garbage.[05.14.2010 by Eric J Herboth]
COLUMN
» Glaciers of Ice: Volume 50 - Yeah, you read that right. The big five-oh. What a trip it has been. This month we check out, some stuff that sounds like a 1990s Too Short record, an adolescent boy's violent and brutal wet dream, and Madlib's latest Beat Konducta joint.[05.13.2010 by Jonah Flicker]
FESTIVALS
» Migrating Forms 2010 - The former New York Underground Film Festival debuted as Migrating Forms in 2009. This is their second year around and they've got a full program at Anthology Film Archives in New York from May 14th to the 23rd.[05.12.2010 by The LAS Staff]
ART & DESIGN
» Jay Ryan vs. Aaron Horkey - Take two of the most respected independent artists today, both illustrators known for their striking screenprinting work. Take twenty-five screens, a couple dozen pounds of Stonehenge paper and a bunch of ink. What do you get? One remarkable image, called VERSUS.[04.30.2010 by Eric J Herboth]
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