Y Tu Mama Tambien: Finalmente! Cine Caliente
Here is a film that is intelligent, insightful, surprising, funny, and burningly sexy all in one; a film that’s frank realism and audacity are rarely found in American movies.
Blackalicious | Blazing Arrow | MCA
Blackalicious’ only crime on Blazing Arrow is that its CD is too fucking good. The rhymes set the ears a-tingle and the frontal lobes afire. The beats blur genres and demand bass knobs turned to the left. Most kids are just going to bump along to the awesome tracks at a party, neglecting to cue […]
Student Finds Coverage of Women’s Sports Just Plain Loco
Wow, still no mention of the women’s basketball team pulling off a huge upset in the NCAA tournament and already an article predicting that the men’s team will be going to the Sweet Sixteen next year. I’ve been to the NCAA Women’s Tournament the last four years supporting the team. I also went to the […]
UCSB Uses Satellite to Study Rainforest CO2
A state-of-the-art Japanese satellite is helping UCSB researchers to study the Amazon rainforest from the comfort of their own offices.
Sage Francis | Personal Journals | Anticon
Personal Journals is Sage Francis’ long-awaited first LP, complete with “journal entries” explaining the conception of each track and written apologies to all of his ex-girlfriends. This is a true concept album: no collaborations with other MCs, no appearances from Sage’s old Non-Prophets bangers, and no listener should forget the enormity of Sage’s troubles and […]
Vegetarian Student Can’t Stomach Tasteless Meat Jokes
I have a personal gripe to voice. I am getting a little tired of people teasing me for being a vegetarian.
Fat Jon the Ample Soul Physician | Wave Motion | Mush Records
When I listen to music, I see things – I see visions of people, exotic settings and situations. If a picture tells a thousand words, and I only have 220 left to tell you about Wave Motion, I’m worried you won’t understand the full extent of how beautiful this album really is. The painter of […]
Hip Hop Top Ten
1) J-Live | All of the Above | 7Heads 2) Blackalicious | Blazing Arrow | Quannum 3) El-P| Deep Space 9mm | Def Jux 4) Antipop Consortium | Arrhythmia | Warp 5) Scarub and Very | Afroclassic? | Legendary Entertainment 6) Meanest Man Contest | Contaminated Dance Step | Weapon-Shaped 7) Infectious Organisms | Human […]