The Sword Heads Into Orbit on 'Warp Riders'
Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
After lumbering through Dungeons & Dragons-style sword-and-sorcery kingdoms for two albums, Texas quartet the Sword shoots off into outer space on Warp Riders. Full story »
More Music Reviews
- Charming Vocals Shine Through the Clutter on Cotton Jones' 'Tall Hours in the Glowstream'
- The Party Isn't Over for Los Lobos
- !!! Don't Give Themselves Enough Room on 'Strange Weather'
- Best Coast Commits to Bare-Bones Love Songs on 'Crazy for You'
Robert Rodriguez’s "Machete" Revisits ’70s-style Exploitation for Both Laughs and Gross-Outs
Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010
Machete is what it is: A revenge/conspiracy/action flick laced with political satire and ’70s-style goofiness. And why not? Full story »
More Movies
- The Inaugural Knoxville 24-Hour Film Festival Unleashes Some Winning Creativity
- 'Piranha 3D' Earns Instant Cult Status With Gore, Comedy, and Naked Spring Breakers
- Noomi Rapace's Performance Rises Above the Violent Murk of 'The Girl Who Played With Fire'
- Edgar Wright Transfers the Cartoon Frenzy of 'Scott Pilgrim' to the Big Screen
Evocative Three-Part Thriller "Red Riding" Does More Than Chronicle a Series of English Murders
Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010
America may have given the world The Sopranos and The Wire, but the British have been doing ambitious, long-arc television narratives for decades. And nobody on this side of the Atlantic in the post-Sopranos/Wire world has done anything like Red Riding (IFC DVD and Blu-ray). Full story »
More DVD/TV
- 'The Art of the Steal' Shows How Subculture Becomes High Culture
- Prison Makes a Better Criminal in Jacques Audiard’s 'A Prophet'
- IFC's Video on Demand Connects Niche Movies and Their Audiences
- Warner Tries to Keep Up With Technology—and Beat Bootleggers—With On-Demand Archive
No Surprises, Just Epic Warfare, in 'StarCraft II'
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
Eleven million sold or not, the specifics of a franchise that nearly stole away an entire generation of South Korean gamers is surprisingly hard to pin down for the uninitiated. “Warcraft in space” doesn’t make sense to those unfamiliar with the genre; “SimCity meets Halo” is even worse. Full story »
More Video Games
- Why I Hated My Vacation: The Worst of Summer Gaming
- The Surprising Success of OnLive, a Mutant Offspring of Gaming and YouTube
- War for Cybertron Wins Gaming
- Does 'Red Dead Redemption''s John Marston Have to Die?
Mind the Gap on iPhone 4
Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010
By simplifying nearly everything about the smartphone experience while simultaneously opening their product to outside development and locking down that same development into only styles which help unify their vision, Apple positioned themselves via the iPhone as frontrunners in next-gen telecommunications. Say what you like about Apple, but they know how to build a solid, appealing piece of hardware. Or at least they did until the iPhone 4. Full story »
More Digital Media
- A 140-Character Sonnet
- Apple Tries to Get in on the News Business with the iPad
- Will Microsoft's Windows 7 Render Your PC Obsolete?
- Oontz Oontz Oontz
Julie Armbruster's Cute Li'l Animals Survey a Fearsome World
Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010
In this alternate world, body parts bloom on trees and bushes, and a unicorn is a large, horned rodent at sea in a small boat. The strangeness is not for its own sake. The absurdity is ordered, evocative, and repeated in such a way that it sometimes evokes the composition and symbolism of Golden Age Dutch genre painting. Full story »
More Art
- KMA’s 'Contemporary Focus'
- At Downtown Gallery, UT Professor Norman Magden Loops Images Until They Collapse
- First Friday Farrago
- Salvador Dali's Illustrations of Dante's 'Divine Comedy' Make a Colorful Impression
Despite Efforts, "Lulu in Marrakech" Unconvincing
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Diane Johnson has perfected the contemporary novel of manners. Or more particularly, she has mastered the expatriate version of such, a cross between Henry James’ American on European Tour and Jane Austen’s Social Commentary. In previous works, such as Le Divorce (1997), Le Mariage (2000), and L’Affaire (2003), Johnson’s central characters are invariably newly arrived Americans set adrift in European, mostly French-speaking, settings of subtlety and expatriate compromise. In her latest work, Lulu in Marrakech, Johnson relocates the setting from Europe to Morocco.
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Clarence Brown and KSO Team Up for an Unusual Combination of Drama and Music in "Amadeus"
Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010
Knoxville audiences, whether seasoned or new, will be able to immerse themselves in Peter Shaffer’s somewhat controversial take on the Mozart legend as the Clarence Brown Theatre joins with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra in a unique production of Amadeus featuring the integration of live music, performed by an onstage orchestra, into the play. Full story »
More Classical Music
- KSO Closes Its Season With Colorful 'Pines of Rome'
- KSO Honors Departing Concertmaster Mark Zelmanovich in Final Chamber Concert of the Season
- Knoxville Opera Presents Rossini as Vaudeville
- UT Presents Two Short Operas, One a Comedy by Puccini
'Sherlock’s Last Case' Fulfills All the Requirements of Summer Theater
Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
Theater companies reserve the summer for their frothiest, most lightweight entertainments. Theatre Knoxville Downtown opens its sixth season with Sherlock’s Last Case, a play so unencumbered by meaning that it practically evaporates before your eyes. And if the company puts the production over with more brio than skill, it’s all part of the summer theater experience. Full story »
More Theater
- Oak Ridge Playhouse Dusts Off Rice/Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- Clarence Brown Theatre Takes on '60s Icon Man of La Mancha
- Two Romantic Comedies, Written a Century Apart, Share a Single Truth
- Clarence Brown’s "Oedipus the King" Leaves the Audience Out of the Action
DC's Latest Takes on the Green Arrow Universe are Hit or Miss
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
DC’s new Justice League series has missed the mark, but Gail Simone’s Birds of Prey is off to a good start.
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More Comics & Graphic Novels
- Alan Moore Revives Underground Publishing Tradition With Big-Budget Zine
- DC and Dynamite Reboot Classic Characters With Divergent Results
- Graphic Novel "Trick 'r Treat" Celebrates All Things Halloween
- Vikings Storm the Comic Book Stands