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At first glance, the Of Montreal/Janelle Monae tour seems to be somewhat of a odd pairing — the artsy Monae seems an unlikely counterpoint to indie glam-pop eccentrics Of Montreal — but they have more in common than first meets the eye...
Animal instinct
David Sedaris has an odd relationship with animals. By his own admission he has no use for them in close quarters, but is infatuated with the raw and often ugly lives of creatures in their native habitats...
Will Mel Gibson up the hilarity level in, or cast a...
LOS ANGELES — It worked with Mike Tyson in "The Hangover." But can director Todd Phillips make a celebrity cameo uncomfortably funny with a much more, er, complicated figure...
Kristen Stewart: ‘Twilight: Breaking Dawn’ will change people’s minds about Bella...
LOS ANGELES — "Twilight" fans love to debate their favorite novel in Stephenie Meyer's bestselling vampire series. Kristen Stewart says she has her own favorite — and it's the most explicit and intense of the bunch...
Gallery: Red Bull’s Thre3Style competition rocks the crowd
Red Bull's Thre3Style Competition U.S. Finals came to Denver on October 10 at Denver's Beta nightclub. The contest asks DJs to rock a crowd for 15 minutes with at least three different genres of music in their mix. A panel of judges decided who rocked the crowd the ...
Kanye West’s album art: Banned in the U.S.A.?
LOS ANGELES — Superstar rapper Kanye West...
Although familiar, Halo: Reach doesn’t disappoint
The original Halo game, Halo: Combat Evolved, hit stores shelves back in 2001 to much praise and critical delight. Developed by game studio Bungie and distributed by Microsoft, the game was a bona fide hit and put the newly released Microsoft Xbox on the map. Fast-...
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West could be the sleeper hit of...
It’s tough for any new game franchise to get the attention it needs during the crowded fall/holiday season. Among games like Halo, Call of Duty, Rock Band and other top-tier video game franchises, it’s easy for a game like Enslaved: Odyssey to the West to be ignored...
Not awful, at least
Compared to 27 Dresses, The Ugly Truth and Killers — The Ugly Truth and Killers being extra-specially evil benchmarks of how low modern romantic comedies can go — Life as We Know It does not crush your soul, does not turn Katherine Heigl into a shrill pain in the ...
Hip-hop, exported and imported
What bothers Canadian rapper-singer k-os the most is artist fraud. The artist who projects one image in the music but lives an entirely different one...
Worldwide rhythms
%uFFFDSomali-Canadian rapper K’naan just had one of the best summers of his career. Earlier in the year his song “Waving Flag” from his sophomore album The Troubadour was adopted by Canadian producer Bob Ezrin and the Young Artists for Haiti to raise funds for ...
