War films tend to suffer from an aura of banal sameness. They can all seem alike at times. And whenever one film comes along to shake things up a bit (for example, “Saving Private Ryan,” with its shaky cam and washed-out visuals), every subsequent output in the genre follows in its footsteps with near-religious fanaticism. Read more...

Who is Nikki S. Lee? The South Korean-born performance artist and 1999 graduate of New York University has become internationally known for her galleries of photographs which feature her under the guise of a variety of identities. Read more...

Hello, dear reader, and welcome to A&E’s annual prediction sesh, in which we crack open our fortune cookies and see what’s going to be in and out in 2007. Read more...

Field Music “Tones of Town” Memphis Industries Call it post-post-punk. In the wake of second-generation bands such as Bloc Party and Interpol, there’s been renewed interest in post-punk’s founding fathers: Gang of Four, Mission of Burma and Wire, who have all recently either made comebacks or at least reissued classic albums. Read more...

Musicians and beards ““ they just go together. Not all musicians need beards to be great, but the way I see it, it’s like Cap’n Crunch cereal: If you’re given the choice to have them with or without Crunchberries, why would you choose without? Read more...

The little white boxes popping out of students’ messenger bags and backpacks, keeping them company between classes and at the gym, prove that the iPod has revolutionized music as we know it. Read more...

Following a year in which “Fishscale” somehow snowballed into New York rapper Ghostface Killah’s most acclaimed album, one would think the aptly titled “More Fish” could only be an afterthought. Read more...