By JAKE KRING-SCHREIFELS
STAFF WRITER
A strange and powerful dissonance bookends Lone Survivor, director Peter Berg’s immersive and insular new war film. It begins with archival footage of Navy SEALs...
By NICOLE HORTON
CULTURE EDITOR
Warner Bros. acquired the screen rights to “40 Days of Dating,” a multimedia blog that details the actual whirlwind dating experiment of two graphic designer...
By JOSEPH VITALE
MANAGING EDITOR
The first and only time I have seen Young the Giant perform was on a disastrously rainy day at the Governors Ball. In the muddy fields of Randall’s Island, standing...
By DEVON SHERIDAN
STAFF WRITER
Most music lovers lament the existence of at least one skeleton hiding in their CD, vinyl or digital music collection closet. Typically, these musical hiccups are leftovers...
By ROSEMARY DEROCHER
COLUMNIST
“You Take Me As I Am” is best described as one of the most exuberant songs I have ever heard. The opening track on Tales from Terra Firma, the second album from the...
By MICHAEL KRZYSKO
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Spike Jonze’s look at modern society in Her is honest, critical and somewhat disturbing. In a near-future world where technological intimacy has overtaken human...
By Joe Vitale
There is a certain familiarity to Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings’ latest release, Give the People What They Want. Jones, sometimes tough, sometimes sweet, but always powerful, embraces...
By KATHERINE MOBILIA
STAFF WRITER
Queen Bey has struck again. Beyoncé’s newest, self-titled album, Beyoncé, is not only a collection of captivating and cutting-edge songs, it is an open book that...
By NICOLE HORTONCULTURE EDITOR
Martin Scorsese’s film The Wolf of Wall Street depicts the ruthless rise and meteoric fall of Wall Street anti-hero Jordan Belfort’s self-made world of excess and debauchery....
Dear Emma,
The girl I like can sometimes seem shady to me. She’s always texting a lot of guys at once and my friends have told me a few rumors about her. Should I pursue her or am I wasting my time?
-Confused
Dear...
By JOHN BONAZZO
COLUMNIST
Oscar, I love you, but you’re bringing me down.
The nominations for the 86th annual Academy Awards did feature some welcomed surprises. For example, it was great to see a...
By MARLESSA STIVALA
From highly anticipated series finales (ahem, “Breaking Bad”) to a string of end of the year “Oscar bait” movies, 2013 was a memorable year for television and film alike....
