I watched the great 10-hour Japanese antiwar film! Now it's your turn. Plus: Topiary genius, life after the tsunami, and a gay British crime lord.
By Andrew O'Hehir Jul 18, 2008
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Passover is a time of questions -- and Audiofile wants to know who's your favorite Jewish rock star.
April 2, 2007
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The 1956 classic "A Walk on the Wild Side" captured the Crescent City as we'll never see it again -- seedy, brutal, alive.
By Allen Barra
September 7, 2006
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A look back at the pundits who predicted box office woe for "Brokeback." Plus: Bye-bye, "West Wing." Hello, baby J.Lo?
January 23, 2006
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The rock legend discusses his digital photography and Warhol before suddenly asking, "If the sun was an oboe, what would you do?"
By Amy Reiter
January 19, 2006
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A former Creem magazine colleague of Lester Bangs remembers -- and members of the Doors, the MC5, Blondie and the Mekons respond to -- the late, great rock critic's bracing vitriol.
By Roberta Cruger
September 3, 2003
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Sting's very, very impressive sexual stamina and John Leguizamo's very, very large tripod exposed. Also: Matthew Hooker is very, very angry with Nicole Kidman, and more.
Read by Amy Reiter
May 16, 2001
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Nicole does her best to keep "a wonderful man" away. Plus: Britney disses her hometown, Leguizamo's got a major bulge and Woody Harrelson runs from the law!
By Amy Reiter
May 10, 2001
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The Velvet Underground founder gave us heroin, the exalted transvestite and euphoric nastiness. Who knew salvation could sound so good?
By Chris Colin
May 16, 2000
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Jim DeRogatis' solid new biography argues that "America's greatest rock critic" spawned a generation of self-absorbed hacks -- and a neutered music press that wouldn't have a place for him anymore.
By Ira Robbins
April 4, 2000
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By Greil Marcus
April 3, 2000
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As the master of self-reinvention -- from Ziggy Stardust to the Thin White Duke to Normal David -- he became the most influential rock star of the post-Beatles era.
By Greg Villepique
January 25, 2000
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A punk icon in jeans and leather jacket, she added ecstasy and spiritual exaltation to the poet-songwriter equation.
By Greg Villepique
November 9, 1999
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Are white hipsters an endangered species? Is sellout just another word for nothing left to lose?
By Frank Houston
November 1, 1999
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David Bowman interviews Suzanne Vega, whose poems and lyircs were recently published in the volume 'The Passionate Eye'.
By David Bowman
February 17, 1999
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Todd Haynes' opulent ode to the
glam-rock era may be 50 percent polyester, but it's full of heart.
By Stephanie Zacharek
November 6, 1998
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Salon gets personal with NPR's Maestro of conversation.
By Lori Leibovich
June 22, 1998
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Cynthia Joyce interviews Mikal Gilmore on his new book 'Night Beat: A Shadow History of Rock 'n' Roll,' the golden age of old rock stars and rock's redemptive force in American culture.
By Cynthia Joyce
March 20, 1998
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Seeing "Cocksucker Blues," about the glory days of Mick and the Stones, makes Cintra Wilson lament the loss of the great cock rockers of yore.
By Cintra Wilson
March 10, 1998
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Sam Hurwitt reviews Iggy Pop's "Naughty Little Doggy," and Lou Reed's "Set the Twilight".
By Sam Hurwitt
August 1, 1996
Batman vs. the lavender genius of crime!
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