The Berkeley Beacon
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Eclectic films fill the multiplex and arthouse
In Richard Linklater's 1995 intercultural study of post-collegiate observations and...
New box set proves Nick Drake#039;s day is not done
Fame eluded singer-songwriter Nick Drake during his brief lifetime. In 1974, at the age of 26,...
Stanford is not a successful John Mayer rip-off
All new male singer/songwriters want to win the Best Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Vocal...
Rosa Passos infuses musical history and fresh beats in her songs
Since Rosa Passos' career re-launch in 1985, the Brazilian singer/songwriter has been bringing...
In like a ferocious Lion, out like a lame Lamb
It wasn't the wisest move of Academy Award-winning director Robert Redford to try to incorporate...
Country proves Coen Bros. are not Old news
After a series of ingenious, quirky and, most recently, inconsequential (Intolerable Cruelty, The...
Genre-bending musicians bring world to Boston
The line is taken from the song "Tell Me," one of ten luscious tracks off Sharon Jones and the...
Carbon-copy Darko adaptation leaves no marks
As a follower during my high school years of the Darko cult sensation myself, the thought of...
Sweeney avoids piety, bakes up bloody treats
Few composers can manage to make a truly terrifying tale out of a usually harmless occupation: a...
Bee Movie exhausts puns like a college newspaper
What's the deal with celebrities lending their voices to computer-animated films? Is there really...
City parallels war with decaying relationships
While it might seem like overkill to set a play about war in a time when information on Iraq...
Wristcutters cuts to the bone of bleak comedy
There's definitely something unsettling about the word "wristcutters" in Wristcutters: A Love...
Walker#039;s ambiguous art is not black and white
As dark as a black hole, and just as unsettling, is the fallen silhouette of a young girl with a...
Prestige films, dramedies and Afflecks, oh my!
Including: Rendition, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Darjeeling Limited, Lars and the Real Girl,...
Annual meeting
Indie rock darlings Annuals, a collection of five 20-to-23-year-old North Carolinians, compiled...
