In our current age of PC backlash by both sides of the morality coin, it is worth mentioning that it is still largely inappropriate to make fun of disease. Thanks to liberal doses of progressive thinking,...

The 12 Rods' song "Glad That It's Over" was recently included on the movie soundtrack to Orange County. But if there was any justice in the music industry, 12 Rods would be known for much more than a single...

The narrator is the glue that keeps a novel from falling apart. It's a bit of a trite statement straight from high school literature courses, but, for most intents and purposes, it is true. Even with the...

I can easily say that I've never been to a play like Galumph Interactive Theater's Seance. I have, however been in theater classes that were quite similar. You see, Seance is what they call an "interactive...

Here it is, the greatest film ever made. Even the title is a masterpiece - Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! It is the sort of title exploitation filmmakers dream of. The title alone guarantees ticket sales,...

Moonshine. White Lightning. Mountain Dew. In the backwoods of the southeastern United States, rural people have long produced their own illegal, untaxed corn whiskey in homemade stills. Though the practice...

Innovative pianist, technology entrepreneur and pioneer of jazz-funk fusion, Herbie Hancock surges musical invention. His last tour promoted his Future 2 Future album and featured electronic manipulation,...

Swan Lake, that hoary old classic of ballet by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, is not famous for raising critical hackles - but, then, really, how much ire can be raised by a story of songbirds in love? Louise...

The last few Guthrie productions have fallen short of their potential, so a dramatic recovery for their current production, The Comedy of Errors, could not have been anticipated. However, with Theatre...

It seems strange that a culture which clings so doggedly to women's social, economic and emotional submission should find a movie like Secretary so exhilaratingly novel and wicked. But try as you may to...