- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Jun 2, 2005
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It Takes a Worried Man
Devo front man Mark Mothersbaugh on his latest art project, his oldest obsessions, and the continuing story of de-evolution.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, May 12, 2005
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Spoils of the Culture Wars
John Kerry's failure brought the world to Tom Frank's door.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, May 5, 2005
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A Neo-Futurist Never Looks Back
After a painful divorce and a three-year hiatus, the creator of the long-running Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is recharged and looking to expand the franchise.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Apr 28, 2005
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The Bard of Baghdad
Against all advice, a theater vet and two precocious teens team up to bring Saddam Hussein's first novel to the stage.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Apr 21, 2005
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Bill, Jim, Abe, and Me
Touring American history with Sarah Vowell, the country's most self-absorbed docent.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Apr 14, 2005
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You're Reliving All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr is reuniting to promote reissues of its first three albums. Too bad--those records deserve better.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Apr 7, 2005
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The Sky Has Fallen
Seattle's A Frames play the music you'll be listening to in your bomb shelter.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Mar 31, 2005
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Dollhouses of Death
A photo exhibit in Frances Glessner Lee's childhood home provides an intimate look at the remarkably precise crime-scene models she built in the 40s and 50s.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Mar 24, 2005
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Three Likembes and a Wooden Microphone
With a few thumb pianos, junkyard percussion, and a homemade PA, the Congolese band Konono No. 1 is gaining a worldwide rep.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Mar 17, 2005
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So Long, Second City
Why did Dan Bakkedahl throw away what every improviser in Chicago would kill for?
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Mar 3, 2005
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The Cubbalist
Rabbi Byron Sherwin knows how to lift the Cubs' curse. But don't ask him to do it.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Feb 3, 2005
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Cruel to Our Kind
Trap Door's latest, a rarity by Austrian nihilist Werner Schwab, lets humanity have it but good.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Jan 13, 2005
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A Strange Hell
Tolkien's tidy war, brought to life more faithfully than ever in a new extended box set.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Dec 30, 2004
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The Underachiever
Janet Desaulniers blew a book deal with Knopf, and boy is she glad.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Dec 23, 2004
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Eric Idle Talksalot
to Monty Python court scribe Kim "Howard" Johnson about Spamalot, his friendship with George Harrison, the inevitable Rutles revival, and the futility of trying to outrun that great big finger in the sky.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Dec 9, 2004
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The Comedy Behind the Tragedy
You know Lenny Bruce, the free-speech hero. But how well do you know his work?
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Dec 2, 2004
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The Independent
In his day he was misunderstood, but in the iMovie age John Cassavetes seems positively prescient. A recent box set sheds light on John Cassavetes's work outside the studio system.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Nov 18, 2004
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The Mathematics of Success
In the case of young-adult author Hillary Frank, the formula is talent + luck + a Teflon hide.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Nov 4, 2004
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Red Play for a Blue State
What's bad for the country is good for Marxist theater.
- News & Features, The Reader's Guide Feature, Oct 28, 2004
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The View Outside the Green Zone
Photographer Stephanie Sinclair brings the other side of the conflict home.
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