Cat Power “The Greatest” Matador Records On her seventh album, Cat Power’s Chan Marshall returns to her roots. In “The Greatest,” Marshall sheds the anthem-like qualities of 1998’s “Moon Pix” and slumps deeper into emotional complexity than in her 2003 release “You Are Free.” But she does so this time by digging deep for the gold of the Memphis soul sound. Read more...

Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins “Rabbit Fur Coat” Team Love Records It seems when people who have a self-proclaimed “eclectic” taste in music are asked what they listen to regularly, they often respond with something like, “Oh, I listen to everything ““ except country.” But that may change with Jenny Lewis’ twangy solo album “Rabbit Fur Coat.” Lewis has temporarily stepped away from her three male counterparts who make up the indie-pop powerhouse Rilo Kiley, and teamed up with gospel singers The Watson Twins to produce a set of songs that resembles what one might imagine singing along to with a group of friends after church ““ intimately sad, sardonically playful, and simple, catchy melodies to carry it all through. Read more...

“Fateless” Directed by Lajos Koltai THINKFilm, Inc. Rather than encompassing the universal experience of World War II or the Nazi concentration camps, “Fateless” focuses on Gyuri Köves, a teenager from Budapest who is separated from his family and sent to work at a camp in Buchenwald, Germany. Read more...

Reading a newspaper in January 2006, one feels a tragic sense of deja vu. Stories of violent insurgencies, military operations and ceaselessly rising body counts are reported with such regularity that a person can often find it difficult to distinguish one day’s news from the last. Read more...

When I was flipping through the February issue of Vogue, something caught my attention ““ a headline heralding Wisconsin senator Russell Feingold as “the most blogged-about Democrat since Howard Dean.” This was big. Read more...

When “Can You Hear Me? Asian Dance Voices” opens its doors for its U.S. premiere on Jan. 20 at Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater, audiences should expect more than a simple display of traditional Southeast Asian dance ““ they should be prepared to embrace a performance that invokes questions of life, spirituality and the power of cultural identity to transcend generations. Read more...

The Golden Globes have always been the most amusing televised awards show for me. Maybe it’s because the Globes are handed out in a dinner party environment, leading to an increased chance for drunken acceptance speeches, or maybe it’s that every year some young girl is selected to be “Ms. Read more...