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January 11, 2011

Artsweek Talks Basketball: ‘Melo to the Nets? Bad Idea (For Now)

By Artsweek Editor

As of Jan. 11 at 3:43 p.m., Carmelo Anthony is still a Denver Nugget, and the team has publicly warned New Jersey against further public discussion of a proposed three-team, 16-player (you read that right?) deal that wou...

November 18, 2010

Album of the Year: Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty

By Artsweek Editor

Who could have guessed that the Outkast’s more gangsta half would put out the most revolutionary hip-hop album of the new decade?

November 16, 2010

Kevin Love: You’re Awesome and Here’s Why

By Artsweek Editor

For the uninitiated, Kevin Love is one of the best players in the NBA. There, I said it. The former UCLA star has blown past racial and body-type expectations to drop the first 30-30 game since Moses Malone’s more than...

November 5, 2010

Portugal. The Man Jams in the Hub

By Artsweek Editor

Portland-by-way-of-Alaska experimental rockers, Portugal. The Man, played to a half-full Hub on Monday, Nov. 1.

November 5, 2010

Free Darko and Your Ass Will Follow (Not Really but it Sounds Cool)

By Artsweek Editor

How fittingly strange that the people to save the printed word should come from the internet.

November 4, 2010

Nathaniel Friedman Part 2

By Artsweek Editor

Artsweek talks with Nathaniel Friedman about Free Darko.

November 4, 2010

Nathaniel Friedman Interview Part 1

By Artsweek Editor

Artsweek talks to Nathaniel Friedman about Free Darko

November 4, 2010

Portugal. The Man Interview

By Artsweek Editor

Artsweek talks to Zach Brothers and Ryan Neighbors of Portugal. The Man.

November 2, 2010

Heat Check

By Artsweek Editor

Everyone who’s anyone knows about the Miami Heat. LeBron, his decision and the somewhat shady circumstances surrounding the formation of Miami Thrice (sign-and-trades to preempt a tampering investigation, anyone?) have...

October 28, 2010

Sam Raimi’s “Drag Me to Hell

By Matthew Javidi, Artsweek Editor

Sam Raimi’s first true horror movie since directing the “Spider Man” trilogy tells the story of an ambitious bank worker who gets cursed by an angry customer. Filled with the typical cheese and B-movie gore of Raim...

October 28, 2010

Dario Argento’s “Suspiria

By Derek Boeckelmann, Artsweek Editor

An American exchange student at a ballet school in Italy encounters a coven of witches in Dario Argento’s “Suspiria.” While it isn’t necessarily scary, “Suspiria” is certainly one of the creepiest films I’v...

October 28, 2010

New Release: Paranormal Activity 2

By Artsweek Editor, Derek Boeckelmann

Like “The Blair Witch Project” ten years before it, Paranormal Activity, a low-budget, independent horror film marketed under the guise of a documentary project, achieved the near-impossible last year by becoming an ...

October 21, 2010

Sleigh Bells Jingle All the Way to SOhO

By Artsweek Editor

Sleigh Bells slid down SOhO’s chimney last Monday, Oct. 18 and delivered a 30 minute, 29 second sonic dance assault to the packed house.

October 7, 2010

No Age Grows Up, Calms Down On “Everything in Between”

By Artsweek Editor

Some bands will forever remain inextricably linked to a time and place, for example: Joy Division and late-‘70s Manchester, Mac Dre and late-‘90s Northern California and The Strokes and early-2000s New York all leap ...

September 30, 2010