Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 12:00am
Films do not become classics because they are easy to watch. Films that show up in revivals, critics' Top Movies of All Time lists, and late night television usually make us uneasy in some way.
Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 12:00am
When Oscar Torres returned to his childhood home in El Salvador 21 years after he escaped, there were still bullet holes in the door.
Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 12:00am
Lars Strömberg is not a politician, nor does he have a degree in political science. He is just the guitarist in the punk rock outfit The (International) Noise Conspiracy. But the message they have is not what you would expect from a band that spent the summer playing on the Warped Tour.
Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 12:00am
Speaking about the mythology of New York's rock and roll scene, it's often too easy to talk in terms of a progressing series of sounds.
Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 12:00am
By Jesse Waldman
Columbia Daily Spectator
"Music is like food, man," says Chicago blues guitarist Ladell McLin. "If you don't get it you're gonna starve, you're gonna die."
Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 12:00am
Death Cab for Cutie wants to make one thing very clear: it was never cool to like them. "We never really felt like [people] in the underground ... liked us to begin with," bassist Nick Harmer said with a small chuckle.
Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 12:00am
"I don't know. I just do it the way I feel." Those words are a quite nice, but unexpected, summary of Kieran Hebden, also known as Four Tet.
Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 12:00am
Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 12:00am
Never accuse Bill Gates of thinking small.
Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 12:00am
In some Columbia College recitations, the youngest person in the room might be the teacher.
