As online editor for The Chronicle, I've been experimenting with different uses of Twitter to suit The Chronicle's journalistic purposes. So far, no success. Frankly, I believe Twitter will be a...
Watchmen addicts, rejoice. Tales of the Black Freighter presents the last pieces of the Watchmen universe in a new DVD, supplementing the film.
I have a crush on Kristen Stewart. Maybe it's because of the dark, emotional roles that seem to attract her. Maybe it was her part in Twilight that got me hooked. But really, I think it's because...
Peter Bjorn and John's Living Thing is probably the most even-tempered album you'll hear all year. The three are simply too cool to get riled up. Their initial success with 2006's Writer's Block...
Each year of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, a filmmaker curates a themed series. This year, Steve James, Academy Award-winning director of Hoop Dreams, is curating "This Sporting Life,"...
Like a circus for the documentary crowd, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival comes to town once a year. And from today until Sunday, it will be a documentary bonanza in downtown Durham. Held...
In an impressive feat, Hoof 'n' Horn makes the banalities of suburban life and visits to the dentist as exciting as the bloodthirsty carnivorous plants that characterize the rock musical.
Hammer No More The Fingers cordially invites you to help pillage Durham. The Bull City band is spearheading Viking Storm, a two-day event that is both a release party for the trio's new album,...
Bela Fleck has something of the Midas touch about him. Whether he's playing newgrass or jazz fusion, classical concerti or jam-band vamps, Fleck has a penchant for garnering the applause of critics...
Ravaged by decades of war and exploitative use of its natural resources, King Berenger's kingdom has decayed from a mighty country to near ruin. On top of the country's collapse, 400-year-old...
Let me make everyone sufficiently uncomfortable right now: this is not an article about threesomes. Microsoft Word's spell check seems not to know whether threesome is a word, but the term isn't...
Nothing better summarizes the overall intensity of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' It's Blitz! than the album's cover image: a stillshot of a woman's hand squeezing and shattering an egg, with its yolk...