Lea Michele: No Business Like Show Business
Hometown: Tenafly, N.J. Show: Glee For Fans Of: Wicked, High School Musical, Freaks and Geeks Listening to Lea Michele gush over her new role in Glee—Fox’s much-hyped new series about a high-school musical ensemble—is eerily similar to witnessing the jazz-handed optimism of her character Rachel Berry, a teenaged vocalist with a scorchingly sunny disposition. In fact, Michele openly admits that playing the diva-in-training doesn’t require much acting at all. “I definitely have a lot of Rachel in me—her level of projection is pretty much the same in a small classroom as it would be on a Broadway stage,” she says.... read more
Catching Up With... The Jesus Lizard
The legendary rock band talks about reuniting, getting drunk in Paris and how "nobody wants to see an old, naked man..." read more
High Definition: Dexter, 24 & The Fallenness of Man
For the longest time, I resisted watching Dexter. I didn’t want to find myself rooting for a serial killer, justifying his murderous appetite with the fact that he only kills bad guys, that he’s really a nice guy who brings doughnuts to the office each morning, that there’s nothing more satisfying than seeing justice served to the most wretched of criminals who had thought they’d beat the system. I’d already got caught up in a season of 24, and it left me feeling a little icky.... read more
Catching Up With... Thao Nguyen
Thao Nguyen just bought some new underwear... read more
Prank You Very Much: The Yes Men Document Their Anti-Corporate Hijinks
You’re at GO-EXPO, one of North America’s fastest-growing oil-and-gas events... read more
Listen Up: After Far, Reconsidering Regina Spektor
I don't like Regina Spektor's new album, but maybe you already knew that... read more
Best of What's Next: Amy Speace
Amy Speace's lucky break was really lucky... read more
Where the Wild Things Are Roundup
A review, two columns, an exclusive and hilarious behind-the-scenes documentary, a cover story and an interview with Karen O... read more
Film Friday: Drag Me to Where the Wild Things Are
The long anticipated Spike Jonze-Dave Eggers adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are arrives in theaters this weekend, and Sam Raimi’s latest film Drag Me to Hell is newly out on DVD and Blu-Ray. I could be wrong, but I suspect the audiences for these two films overlap more than you might expect.... read more
Getting to Know... Volcano Choir
Justin Vernon of Bon Iver has been pretty public about his love for experimental post-rock outfit Collections of Colonies of Bees... read more
Salute Your Shorts: Spike Jonze's Documentaries
Because he wears so many different hats, a lot of things come to mind when thinking of Spike Jonze... read more
Catching Up With... The Mountain Goats
John Darnielle, the creative force behind the legendary folk act The Mountain Goats, is about as agnostic as they come, so many an eyebrow was raised at the news that... read more
Best of What's Next: Sally Shapiro
When Sally Shapiro started making music, she faced a reaction few artists have to deal with: speculation that she wasn’t real... read more
Catching Up With... Daryl Hall and John Oates
For those of us who grew up in the ’80s, there’s a lot we’d like to forget—shoulder pads, parachute pants, and high-altitude bangs. Such things should be locked in the vault of history, to never again see the light of day. But then there were Daryl Hall and John Oates. You know, the dude with the feathered blond locks and that guy with the moustache? The hit-makers who thrust choruses upon us that we just couldn’t get out of our heads? The purveyors of the “Private Eyes” hand-clap? Remember?... read more
Best of What's Next: Stardeath and White Dwarfs
If the last name of Stardeath and White Dwarfs' lead singer Dennis Coyne rings a bell... read more
Fall Guide to Good TV: The Guild
WatchTheGuild.comIf fans of The Guild’s creator and star Felicia Day can be considered a cult following, that cult is quickly growing into a full-on religion. Her web series has been streamed more than 25 million times, and she’s already eclipsed the million-followers mark on Twitter. Not bad for a show about a group of online gamers that was considered too niche when the Buffy the Vampire Slayer actress originally pitched it to the networks.... read more
Fall Guide to Good TV: Wainy Days
WainyDays.comIf dating in New York seems daunting, David Wain’s absurdist comedy series Wainy Days may terrify. Wain (writer/director of Role Models) plays himself serial dating his way through Manhattan. His suave pickups (“Champagne usually knots up my colon, but let’s throw caution to the wind!”) somehow always work, but rarely last past the first night.... read more
Fall Guide to Good TV: Ctrl
NBC.com/Ctrl Arrested Development’s Tony Hale stars in a new NBC web series about a beaten-down office worker with a very literal keyboard—CTRL Z creates a real-life do-over, CTRL B gives him boldness. But these newfound quickly get out of control.... read more
Fall Guide to Good TV: Alive in Baghdad
AliveInBaghdad.orgIn 2005, Brian Conley launched Alive in Baghdad as a counter-point to the soundbyte-driven news coverage of the American occupation of Iraq. The series features weekly video vignettes about daily life in the country, told from the civilian perspective. As our collective attention has shifted away from the war, funding problems have slowed the series' production to a halt, but the 150+ archived episodes are worth checking out.... read more
Fall Guide to Good TV: The Roots on Jimmy Fallon
Weeknights at 12:35 p.m. on NBCAs the the house band for Jimmy Fallon, the hardest working hip-hop band in the world takes a much deserved break from incessant touring for the comforts of 30 Rockefeller. We talked to the band’s co-founder and drummer Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson on the show’s 100th episode, and here’s what he had to say about his new gig:... read more
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