The Hurt Locker

Eleven movies to look forward to in 2012

Johnson & Wales alum and Army vet wins national cooking contest

Thomas Bohne with his winning dish.​Food in the mess hall at the U.S. Army base in Wurzburg, Germany, was bad. So bad that Thomas Bohne, who had never even cracked open a blue box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, took it upon himself to make something edible. He dropped 99 cents on a Thai cookboo ... More >>

Oscar nominations for Best Picture: 2011 vs. 2010

​The Academy Award nominations are out and they're pretty much what you expected: The King's Speech, Black Swan, The Social Network, etc. This is the second year of the expanded ten movie Best Picture category. And as these things go, the ten nominees are not a bad indication of what stuck wi ... More >>

Court cuts peer-to-peer file sharing penalty by a factor of ten

​Back in college, perhaps you found yourself loading up Kazaa and Limewire after a drunken night of revelry, trying desperately to find a copy of "Man! I Feel Like a Woman," before passing out at your desk, not realizing you were sharing an entire library of music the whole time. If you manage ... More >>

Q&A with Britt Daniel of Spoon

​On the back of a series of always good, usually great albums, beginning with Telephono in 1995, Spoon has become one of the most respected and beloved bands in indie rock -- or really just rock, period, no qualifier needed. Having just released Transference, arguably his band's best album t ... More >>

War and Pieces

​On the back of a series of always good, usually great albums, beginning with Telephono in 1995, Spoon has become one of the most respected and beloved bands in indie rock -- or really just rock, period, no qualifier needed. Having just released Transference, arguably his band's best album t ... More >>

Britt Daniel on how Spoon's new album distills the best moments of the band's career into one disc

​On the back of a series of always good, usually great albums, beginning with Telephono in 1995, Spoon has become one of the most respected and beloved bands in indie rock -- or really just rock, period, no qualifier needed. Having just released Transference, arguably his band's best album t ... More >>

Matt Damon and Green Zone confirm the Big Lie, Hollywood style

​On the back of a series of always good, usually great albums, beginning with Telephono in 1995, Spoon has become one of the most respected and beloved bands in indie rock -- or really just rock, period, no qualifier needed. Having just released Transference, arguably his band's best album t ... More >>

Oscar Wild

​On the back of a series of always good, usually great albums, beginning with Telephono in 1995, Spoon has become one of the most respected and beloved bands in indie rock -- or really just rock, period, no qualifier needed. Having just released Transference, arguably his band's best album t ... More >>