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Summer Movies 2012: The Season Brings a Crop of Films Suitable for All Ages -- Including Adults

Opening Credits: Today's Cinematic Releases for Jan. 13

Contraband Director: Baltasar Kormákur Writer: Aaron Guzikowski Condensed Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster Mark Wahlberg stars as a former pop star/underwear model turned actor turned smuggler turned former smuggler who gets himself in deep with a drug lord to protect his brother- ... More >>

The Top Ten All Time Best Replacement Lead Singers in Rock and Roll

The Misfits' Michale Graves​Nothing pisses rock fans off worse than the lead singer of their favorite band being replaced. This happens across genres, but it's most common within hard rock -- pop, country and R&B vocalists' departures are usually a precursor to their solo efforts; very rarely ... More >>

The Conversation: Is Playing Other People's Songs Respectable?

Dallas disco cover band Le Freak​A well-timed cover can be just the thing to take a band's live performance from good to great. But if the execution of the song is off, it could blow the whole set. On the flip side, although playing a cover is a risky move, sometimes the rewards can make an artist ... More >>

Listomania: The 30 Best One-Hit Wonders of '90s Hip-Hop

Nobody beats the Biz.​As mentioned yesterday when we caught up with Everlast for a Q&A, House of Pain is in town tonight, playing a reunion show at South Side Music Hall. And the only thing more surprising than the fact the group has managed to hang around for two decades is the fact that thei ... More >>

Listomania: What Scents Would Be Most Appropriate For The Future Perfumes and Colognes of Today's Biggest Music Icons?

OK, here she probably smelled like blood and semen...​According to fragrance industry insiders, Lady Gaga has requested that Monster, the perfume she is developing, smell of "blood and semen." Frankly, that's a head-scratcher for us -- it sounds more like a Bloodhound Gang scent, or perhaps a Load ... More >>

The Deuce Is Loose

OK, here she probably smelled like blood and semen...​According to fragrance industry insiders, Lady Gaga has requested that Monster, the perfume she is developing, smell of "blood and semen." Frankly, that's a head-scratcher for us -- it sounds more like a Bloodhound Gang scent, or perhaps a Load ... More >>

The Fighter Falls Through the Ropes.

OK, here she probably smelled like blood and semen...​According to fragrance industry insiders, Lady Gaga has requested that Monster, the perfume she is developing, smell of "blood and semen." Frankly, that's a head-scratcher for us -- it sounds more like a Bloodhound Gang scent, or perhaps a Load ... More >>

Today In Music News: Train Causes Sheen Fight, Jack White Rants Against Hipsters And Mark Wahlberg Over Marky Mark

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 11, 2010...The Train hit song "Drops of Jupiter" was allegedly the cause of the fight between Charlie Sheen and his wife last year.Apparently Jack White doesn't like hipster audiences.At least Mark Walhberg has lightened up about his music ... More >>

Date Night, a Romantic Comedy Sans Romance and Comedy

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 11, 2010...The Train hit song "Drops of Jupiter" was allegedly the cause of the fight between Charlie Sheen and his wife last year.Apparently Jack White doesn't like hipster audiences.At least Mark Walhberg has lightened up about his music ... More >>

The Lovely Bones

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 11, 2010...The Train hit song "Drops of Jupiter" was allegedly the cause of the fight between Charlie Sheen and his wife last year.Apparently Jack White doesn't like hipster audiences.At least Mark Walhberg has lightened up about his music ... More >>

Enroll in the Rap Institute of Acting Today!

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 11, 2010...The Train hit song "Drops of Jupiter" was allegedly the cause of the fight between Charlie Sheen and his wife last year.Apparently Jack White doesn't like hipster audiences.At least Mark Walhberg has lightened up about his music ... More >>

Aural Ambush: David Bazan

Today, we welcome back an old friend to the blog. That's right: It's the return of Aural Ambush, a feature we hope will be back and running regularly in these confines we call DC9. It's been a while, though, so, for those who may have forgotten the concept, a quick refresher: We grab an mp3 from an ... More >>

On the Roadshow Again

In an effort to make some of us wonder what treasures we might have in our dry-walled apartments -- or perhaps to rub salt in the wounds of those who unsuccessfully submitted their antiques to the appraisers at Dallas Convention Center last summer -- PBS is airing the first of three Dallas episodes ... More >>

Pride and Glory

New York cop drama holds the audience hostage

Pacman = Game Over?

New York cop drama holds the audience hostage

Dallas Wants, Needs Mark Wahlberg and Frank Campagna On That Wall

New York cop drama holds the audience hostage

What's Happening?

New York cop drama holds the audience hostage

Crackers & Cheese

New York cop drama holds the audience hostage

Forget Gun Control

Who better to save America than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously.

Royal Flush

Who better to save America than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously.

Bait and Switch

A hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment

Training Day

Feel-good football tale scores with charm and sincerity

The Impossible Bomb

Feel-good football tale scores with charm and sincerity

Good Shot

Lord of War unloads one of the year's best cinema moments

Method Rocking

Minnie Driver and Juliette Lewis have started bands. Come on, you know you're curious.

Say Wha? Say Why?

Searching for the meaning of life in a movie that barely exists

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Kitty Litter

The Cat in the Hat forms clumps for easy scooping and disposal

Safe, Cracked

This new Italian Job, a remake better than the original, is a steal

For Our Homies

Plus: Kaboom, Edited for Content

Yes, But Whose Truth?

Jonathan Demme remakes Charade, but it's hardly an imitation

Best Greeting Cards (Naughty)

Nuvo

Anthrax and Judas Priest

January 25

Metal Meltdown

Marky Mark becomes a Rock Star, but he doesn't get to enjoy it

Ape Escape

Tim Burton monkeys around with an icon, but is it evolution?

Run Robber Run

Non-Stop keeps its characters in motion, but, like the movie, they really don't get anywhere

A Couple Yards Short

The gang's all here in this familiar-but-fresh tale of a bad guy scared straight

Jet set

Here's one Hong Kong hero who's ready to conquer

Cock of the walk

Magnolia buries a radiant Tom Cruise beneath three hours of brilliant nothing

War is heck

The revisionism of Three Kings kicks the Vietnam rut

No guts, no glory

David O. Russell gets to the heart of the matter, down to the last detail

Four-point-oh

Bistro A scores straight, solid grades

Kid cubist

Twelve-year-old Alexandra Nechita is fooling art patrons as the "Petite Picasso"

Painfully bleak

Kirk Wong's new film is both deeply funny and unmistakably dark

One happy family

The hugely ambitious Boogie Nights looks at the exalted, debased world of porn

Rip-off

Traveller packs some charm, but brings few gifts

Silver linings

Rainmaker Records gets the credit line it deserves

Plastic explosives

Push the Tripping Daisy and make them come up

Contact high

As a teenage junkie in The Basketball Diaries, Leonardo DiCaprio joins an elite corps of true screen actors