In the final years of the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s career, he directed several small films, unlike many of [...]
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Con-Tro-Ver-See!: A Clockwork Orange (1971)
By Ben Mueller
About this column: Con-Tro-Ver-See! is a biweekly column examining the most controversial films ever released in America. Tracing cinema from [...]
Selected Song: “Sun & Sea”
By Tyler Durgan
With a glaring, raw blues-folk riff and a defiantly stiff stomp-and-clap rhythm, the concisely short yet poignantly aggressive track “Sun [...]
Theatre review: Timon of Athens
If you are looking for a uniquely different, yet always intriguing version of a classical Shakespeare play venture over to [...]
Hidden Gem: In Which We Serve (1942)
Years before his epic cinematic masterpieces, Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia and Passage to India, director David [...]
Catching up with Grandkids
A few days before Grandkids’ Friday performance at the Union Fest, I was lucky to talk to guitar player Evan [...]
Likes and Gripes
Sam Bakall Editor-in-chief likes Spontaneous trips to Walgreens: Admit it. You’ve all done this at some point. You’ve taken a [...]
Heads up: Commencement and Mother’s Day
By Max Huppert
Congratulations to all those walking the stage at commencement this weekend. From all of us at buzz, we hope that [...]
Sounds of summer
By Avani Chhaya
Walking down the cobblestone sidewalk, the sounds of finger-snapping, shoe-tapping jazz music mingled with the rhythms of acoustic guitar float [...]
An indie film star is born
Jacob Wysocki is nothing like the title character he plays in his feature film debut, Terri. He prefers ’90s Fresh [...]
The Avengers: review
By Jamila Tyler
Go see this movie. Seriously. The Avengers is what a summer blockbuster should be. It’s a fanboy or fangirl’s wet [...]
Summer Camp
By Evan Lyman
Spiritually akin to Tennessee’s Bonnaroo, Summer Camp Music Festival offers a top-notch camping and live music experience that’s slightly more [...]
Soundset
The pride of Midwest hip-hop is coming back to Minneapolis on May 27. Soundset Music Festival will bring in big [...]
Bonnaroo music festival
By Tyler Durgan
This summer’s festival lineups feature one of the strangest mixes of nostalgic reunions and fresh talent, and Bonnaroo Music Festival’s [...]
