Guest Editorial: Gun Rhetoric Fires Blanks Once again, we’re in the middle of two sad American cycles: senseless, lethal violence and the slew of specious arguments that inevitably follow, [...] Joe Serio \ Aug 09, 2012 News
Food For Thought: The Art And Science Of Fermentation The Art And Science Of Fermentation At a Korean superstore in Las Vegas, I watched an employee whose sole job, it seemed, was organizing a vast array of kimchee. [...] Ari LeVaux \ Aug 09, 2012 Food
Have Fork, Will Travel: Dining At The Plaza Hotel And Charlie’s In Las Vegas, N.m. The first time I drove through Las Vegas, I had no idea what lay hidden beyond the freeway exits. I remember a Chinese [...] Mina Yamashita \ Aug 09, 2012 Food
Flyer On The Wall: Rock And Roll Fantasy Rock And Roll Fantasy This typeface is not absurdly tough, yet its pointiness and near-illegibility lends a special aura of mystery that suggests magic, action and adventure. [...] Alibi \ Aug 09, 2012 Music
Delta Dawn: How Sears, Roebuck & Co. Midwifed The Birth Of The Blues How Sears, Roebuck & Co. Midwifed The Birth Of The Blues Delta blues is as much legend as it is music. In the popular telling, blues articulated the hopelessness and poverty of an isolated, [...] Chris Kjorness \ Aug 09, 2012 Music
Idiot Box: What Have We Really Learned By Watching The Olympics? Top 10 Things I’ve Learned While Watching The 2012 Summer Olympics The Olympics are designed to instill in participants—and by extension, viewers—the principles of cooperation, team spirit, individual merit, sportsmanship, strength, bravery, tenacity, skill [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 09, 2012 Film (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
Week In Sloth: “Hell On Wheels,” “Motel Hell” And An “Air Jaws Apocalypse” The Week In Sloth “Martian Mega Rover” (National Geographic 8 p.m.) NASA’s newest toy is so awesome it’s “Mega.” “Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell” (FX 12 [...] Alibi \ Aug 09, 2012 Film
Film Interview: Directors Valerie Faris And Jonathan Dayton Create The Perfect Girl In Ruby Sparks An Interview With Directors Jonathan Dayton And Valerie Faris Six years ago, music video superstars Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris took a break from making clips for Red Hot Chili Peppers, The [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 09, 2012 Film
Reel World: Ran And The Man Who Fell To Earth Play Kimo, Gofobo And 43Kix Hand Out Free Movie Tickets Also Ran The seven-film retrospective tribute to Akira Kurosawa comes to an end this Thursday night at KiMo Theatre with the master’s final period drama, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 09, 2012 Film
Culture Shock: Melissa Morgan’s Earthy Opening In Madrid And Details On The Alibi’s Art Box Project Another Earth At first glance, painter Melissa Morgan’s Enter Anthropocene embraces an ethereal, flower-childlike bond between humans and nature. But that’s where Cassidy Watt—owner of [...] Sam Adams \ Aug 09, 2012 Art "Bee Keeper"