• Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Heavy Metal "They're in it for the pussy. The music's important too, but it's more about the pussy." | 5/22/2013
• Hipster Art House Lays Stakes in Eastern Market 1XRUN’s lowbrow cool is downtown at Eastern Market — art for the masses. | 5/15/2013
• Post Tenebras Lux Directed by Carlos Reygadas | 5/8/2013
• The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir Any film nerd hungry for stories of golden-age post-studio Hollywood adventure and excess will be sated. | 5/8/2013
• Drones latest media weapon COLUMBIA, Mo. - Tiger One sits on the ground like a hubcap-sized, four-legged spider. Or maybe a Lego-colored prop for a sci-fi movie. In minutes, journalism students will try to pilot this thing they call a J-bot, but the world knows it as a drone. The | 4/17/2013
• Taxis to replace shuttle buses FORT LEE - There will soon be a new ride on Fort Lee for those who conduct official military business. Bob White, the installation transportation officer, detailed a taxi service that will debut sometime in April and eventually replace an inefficient sh | 4/2/2013
• Military Child of the Year is a Fort Lee teen FORT LEE - A military teen on Fort Lee has been selected as the Army's Military Child of the Year by Operation Homefront. Nicole Daly - daughter of Army Ordnance Chief Col. Edward Daly and his wife Cathy - is a junior at Prince George High School and rou | 3/26/2013
• Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow Slabs of broken stone lie in tumble-down piles as muted screams ebb and surge. | 3/13/2013
• What the Brothers Sang Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie “Prince” Billy | 3/13/2013
• Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief Lawrence Wright’s new book tackles the cult of Scientology | 2/20/2013
• Foundation scholarships awarded at Quartermaster Museum FORT LEE - The Army Quartermaster Foundation awarded scholarships to a wounded warrior and a family member of a wounded warrior during a Jan. 17 ceremony here at the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum. The 2013 Lucy Rhea Henry and Sandra Green Henry Schol | 2/19/2013
• Fort Lee child development center earns national accreditation FORT LEE - Child Development Center Yorktown - one of four child care facilities on post sponsored by Fort Lee Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation - has earned accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the or | 2/5/2013
• Amour A married couple’s love faces its final test | 1/23/2013
• Massive military hotel opens at Fort Lee FORT LEE - After a massive two-year construction project, the largest Army lodging facility in the continental United States opened at Fort Lee in late December. There was little fanfare as administrative personnel and maintenance staff moved into the $1 | 1/15/2013
• Google executive chairman to visit elusive North Korea SEOUL, South Korea - Google's executive chairman is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea. Eric Schmidt will be traveling to North Korea on a private, humanitarian mission led by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardso | 1/3/2013
• Hillary Clinton hospitalized with blood clot Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she suffered earlier this month. | 12/30/2012
• 2012 Top Ten in Home Video Margaret, Heaven’s Gate, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Weekend, Alps, and more | 12/12/2012
• 87-year-old continues doll-making tradition at Fort Lee FORT LEE - Forget the gray beard, red suit and reindeer … Fort Lee has its own version of Santa Claus, and her name is Lorraine Hoover, the 87-year-old spouse of a former Marine and post worker, who has brought smiles to the faces of military children | 12/11/2012
• Zs Score: The Complete Sextet Works 2002-2007 Zs Score: The Complete Sextet Works 2002-2007 Northern Spy Improvisation has been the cornerstone of contemporary underground music for a decade now, maybe two, the exploratory/winging-it impulse that launched a kabillion CD-Rs and warehouse-space sets | 11/21/2012
• Fort Lee archaeologist among 'Lincoln' extras FORT LEE - Bryce Stanley, an archeologist at Fort Lee's Regional Archaeological Curation Facility, digs history, literally. So, it's not surprising he was willing to take a few days off from his job last December to be an extra in Steven Spielberg's film | 11/20/2012
• Beyond the Black Rainbow Beyond the Black Rainbow Directed by Panos Cosmatos At the Charles Theatre Nov. 14 at 9 p.m. The numbers, red on black, slowly reveal themselves, one at a time: 1. 9. 8. 3. Even a few minutes into Beyond the Black Rainbow, the year is already almost a punchline. | 11/7/2012
• Sympathy for the Stones Chris Forsyth reimagines Robert Frank’s elusive Rolling Stones tour doc Cocksucker Blues | 11/7/2012
• Baltimore for Kids Having a kid changes your idea of fun, luckly baltimore offers plenty of opportunities to keep the tykes amused. | 10/10/2012
• The Yearly Grind Pig Destroyer celebrates 15th anniversary with more “short, fast, and loud” | 10/17/2012
• Fort Lee's archeology facility will show visitors many artifacts FORT LEE - Borrow an archaeologist's eyes, and you'll see a different Fort Lee. You'll find signs of habitation by Native Americans. Traces of the small farms owned and worked by free African-Americans, both before and after the Civil War, also are scat | 10/16/2012
• Lifeforce A cult classic featuring naked space vampires. | 9/26/2012
• Army officer shares lessons after friend's suicide FORT LEE - U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Noelle Edinger was home on leave in Wyomissing, Pa., in late April when a close friend of hers committed suicide - an act that ended his life and changed hers. "You hear about it all the time, but when it's close to home and | 9/25/2012
• The Silence of the Lambs Over-the-top serial killers Hannibal the Cannibal and Buffalo Bill may chew up the screen, but Starling's at the center of the story. | 8/8/2012
• 392nd Army Band, Petersburg Symphony Orchestra play Friday FORT LEE - Featuring selections from some of the world's best-known composers, Friday's City Point concert in Hopewell will be a "memorable and monumental" evening, promised Chief Warrant Officer 5 Charles H. Vollherbst, commander of the Fort Lee-based 3 | 8/2/2012
• Best Warrior Competition to get a makeover FORT LEE - The Best Warrior Competition held annually at Fort Lee is typically gruelling, physically demand competition that pits the best soldiers and non-commissioned officers against each other. But this year there will be changes in the Department o | 7/31/2012
• Former Fort Lee armorer celebrates 102nd birthday FORT LEE - A birthday party at the nearby Hopewell Health Care and Rehabilitation Center has sparked a few discoveries at Fort Lee. The honoree, Clara Jozwiak Pito, was celebrating her 102nd birthday June 27 when her daughter, Mary Frances Pito, produced | 7/17/2012
• Technical Ecstasy Local metal heroes Dying Fetus birth a new orthodoxy of extreme | 7/11/2012
• Fort Lee emergency personnel put capabilities to the test FORT LEE - Fort Lee Fire and Emergency Services conducted its first mass casualty exercise last month at the Army post's Downer Range Complex. The complex is a recovery vehicle training facility located in the northern region of Fort Lee adjacent to the | 7/10/2012
• Prince George veteran with 2 Purple Hearts retires after 39 years FORT LEE - Richard Lee Brockwell has spent most of his 66 years serving the federal government. The lifelong Prince George County resident retired June 15 after being a Fort Lee electrician for nearly 39 years. He was also in the Army for almost two yea | 6/26/2012
• Soldier completes four-day, 100-mile road march for charity FORT LEE - Sgt. 1st Class Patrick Kelly, a cancer survivor, possesses only a fraction of the physical abilities he once had. A weakened immune system and removal of his gall bladder have slowed him down, not to mention the side effects of a drawer full o | 6/19/2012
• Soldiers aid stricken shopper at Fort Lee Exchange FORT LEE - To hear post exchange operations manager Trish Jones tell it, there couldn't have been a better response to a shopper in trouble than that which occurred May 19 at the store. "Their reaction time to the customer was awesome," she said. "Their | 6/12/2012
• Possession Andrzej Zulawski’s exploration of a divorce goes for the gut | 5/30/2012
• Fort Lee soldier moms have tea with first lady at White House FORT LEE - Four Fort Lee soldier moms received an invitation of a lifetime recently when they and their children were selected to attend the 2012 White House Mother's Day Tea with first lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden | 5/22/2012
• Libyan convicted in Lockerbie bombing dies at 60 Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died at home in Tripoli Sunday, nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's 270 victims. He was 60. | 5/20/2012
• Fort Lee soldiers perform CPR, help to save chaplain FORT LEE - Staff Sgt. José Lozano can't explain the thought process as he and others recently helped save someone's life. Lozano, an Ordnance School instructor, was part of a bus-monitoring detail with two other soldiers on the morning of April 18. Durin | 5/15/2012
• Geoffrey Baker A local photographer talks about documenting the survivors of the toughest marathon in the world | 5/2/2012
• We Have a Pope What if you were offered one of the most powerful—and daunting—jobs on the planet, and what if you were wise enough to know exactly how daunting, nay impossible, such a position might be? | 4/25/2012
• The Innkeepers A standard haunted-house flick but still packed with some scare power | 4/25/2012
• The Deep Blue Sea The only thing that outshines Rachel Weisz in Terence Davies’ drama of postwar Britain is Davies himself | 4/18/2012
• Fort Lee soldier with cancer not only aims to survive, but thrive and inspire FORT LEE - The plan is set. Sgt. 1st Class Patrick J. Kelly of Mike Company, 244th Quartermaster Battalion, 23rd Quartermaster Brigade, will lace up his boots, throw a 50-pound rucksack over his shoulders and march around the installation until he has co | 4/17/2012
• Jiro Dreams of Sushi David Gelb’s documentary opens by explaining/confirming its title: 85-year-old Jiro Ono spends all day, almost every day, preparing and making sushi. | 4/11/2012
• North Korea launches rocket; may have failed PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a long-range rocket early Friday, South Korean and U.S. officials said, defying international warnings against moving forward with a launch widely seen as a provocation. | 4/12/2012
• Alamo Street Eat-Bar: What to eat when you can (seemingly) eat anything There's no better time than now to have a meal outdoors. Due to the rising costs of running a restaurant, an increasing number of culinarians are trading in their... | 4/11/2012
• The Raid: Redemption Indonesian martial-arts flick beats the crap out of tired Hollywood action | 4/11/2012
• The Kid With a Bike The Kid With a Bike Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne At the Charles Theatre Cyril (Thomas Doret) knows his dad didn’t just leave him at a group home and move away with no plans of coming back. He certainly didn’t sell Cyril’s bike, despite th | 4/11/2012
• Steve Lehman Trio Dialect Fluorescent A classic trio record, straight up. | 4/11/2012
• We Need to Talk About Kevin Scottish director Lynne Ramsay’s flick about the mother of a murderer lacks subtlety | 4/4/2012
• Crazy Horse Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman puts his focus on Le Crazy Horse de Paris, the French cabaret | 4/4/2012
• Fort Lee pictorial history makes social media splash FORT LEE - The story of Fort Lee's transformation from a World War I-era camp to the modern home of U.S. Army logistics, depicted in more than 180 photos spanning nearly a century, was unveiled recently on two popular social media sites. The garrison swi | 4/3/2012
• Environmental goals set for Fort Lee FORT LEE - Being earth-friendly requires a lot of planning for a community as large as Fort Lee. That's why the garrison's Environmental Management Office set objectives and targets for 2012 and beyond to help the post become more energy efficient and m | 4/3/2012
• What Is an Alt-Weekly? We’ve been trying to figure that out for 35 years | 3/28/2012
• Cover Story Judging City Paper and life in Baltimore by 35 years’ worth of each | 3/28/2012
• Pallbearer: Sorrow and Extinction This Arkansas doom quartet’s debut album is so distinctive and bitchin’ | 3/28/2012
• Jerry D’s Seafood Who doesn’t love a wee-nee? | 3/21/2012
• Taste This: Pho Bo Kho, $6.99 Sometimes, normal pho doesn't cut it. I want more flavor, more heat — I want to eat a bowl of noodles that I can't forget. Cue the Pho Bo Kho, an incredibly hearty... | 3/14/2012
• Friends With Kids A new romcom really wants to be something other than another romcom and almost succeeds | 3/7/2012
• Eat Russia With Love Pickles, dumpling, and other adventures in learning about the food of the other Motherland | 3/7/2012
• Stolichny European Deli The 20 or so different salamis and sausages alone guarantee we’ll be back | 1/4/2012
• The Unthanks: Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony and the Johnsons Sisters Rachel and Becky make a modest career in singing/messing with traditional folk songs | 3/7/2012
• Thin Ice Thin Ice suffers by comparison with another Midwestern white-out noir | 2/29/2012
• Blank City Blank City Kino Lorber DVD and Blu-ray Celine Danhier’s documentary on New York’s underground film scene delves so deep into NYC hipster history that it features photographs of director Jim Jarmusch with dark hair. Thus Blank City qualifies as essential | 2/29/2012
• Toss: A Gourmet Pizzeria | 2/29/2012
• Staging Over Manipulation Gallery show examines the relationship between art, marketing, and even art marketing | 2/22/2012
• The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu For nearly three hours, you watch former Romanian Communist autocrat Nicolae Ceausescu give speeches | 2/15/2012
• A Separation A gripping Iranian domestic mystery introduces a rare cinematic talent to American viewers | 2/15/2012
• Asghar Farhadi A Separation’s director tells just enough of the truth (in his film) | 2/15/2012
• Do It Herself Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner flies solo as Flock of Dimes | 2/8/2012
• House of Holes - Nicholson Baker Baker's sexcapade is raucous, raunchy ... and somehow quaint | 2/8/2012
• Fist fights & harmonies The rise and fall of a legendary country duo | 2/8/2012
• Midtown BBQ and Brew | 2/8/2012
• Fort Lee prepares for future earthquakes FORT LEE - A year ago, many Virginia residents might have scoffed at the notion of preparing for an earthquake here. The seismic event in August, however, likely moved earthquake preparedness up a little higher on everyone's priority list. That's why - e | 2/7/2012
• Essential Killing "Starring Vincent Gallo" wouldn't ordinarily be considered a sign of progress to a more nuanced view of the Afghanistan conflict | 2/1/2012
• Holding on to Jah: The Genesis of a Revolution The way reggae and Rastafarianism arose and ultimately grew together is the subject of a new documentary | 2/1/2012
• Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers The Louvin Brothers' rise and fall as a unit and an act rightly forms the substance of Charlie's lively recollection | 2/1/2012
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Thai film ponders the ineffable down on the farm | 1/25/2012
• Albert Nobbs Glenn Close’s cross-dressing-servant passion project fumbles its passions | 1/25/2012
• Loinclöth: Iron Balls of Steel Skull-oscillating total metal overkill, Loinclöth isn’t a joke | 1/25/2012
• Freud and Jung go toe-to-toe in A Dangerous Method Talk?" Even in her wild agitation — barely able to force out words, writhing in her seat — Sabina Spielrein's puzzlement is clear. But that is exactly what her new physician... | 1/25/2012
• Giffords says farewell to Tucson constituents TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — On a bittersweet day for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the outgoing congresswoman spent her final hours in Tucson as the city's U.S. representative, finishing the meeting she started on the morning she was shot and bidding farewell to constituents who supported her through a long recovery. | 1/23/2012
• Jebreel's Mideast buffet delivers a healthier 'comfort food' alternative Albustan is not a heavy-on-the-gravy, stick-to-your-ribs, or clear-your-stuffy-head sort of joint. But walking away from San Antonio's first all-you-can-eat Mediterranean buffet left me feeling... | 1/23/2012
• A Dangerous Method When it comes to the roots of psychoanalysis, David Cronenberg’s latest isn’t all talk | 1/18/2012
• Blackthorn Many of the best films in the western genre bear an elegiac quality | 1/18/2012
• Carnage Roman Polanski’s black comedy mostly assaults your patience. | 1/11/2012
• Microkingdom The uncategorizable trio talks Baltimore’s new thing, playing quietly, and the philosophy of Lil Wayne | 1/11/2012
• Week End Week End Directed by Jean-Luc Godard At the Charles Theatre Jan. 14, 16, and 19 If there was ever a time for a Week End revival, it’s our wearily recessionary, Occupied era. This vivid restored print of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 era-ender can beam out ove | 1/11/2012
• Film Socialisme John Huston was making great films right up until his death at 81 | 1/11/2012
• The Short List Esme Devra West, Independents, Sac au Lait, Attack! Attack!, and more | 1/11/2012
• People who died in 2011 Lesser-known but significant figures | 1/5/2012
• The Final Number With the Iraq War over, we can stop adding up the casualties and start adding up the cost. | 1/4/2012
• People Who Died Our annual homage to the late, little-known shapers of our world | 12/28/2011
• Kai’s more-than-serviceable sushi set to make waves Fresh fish is the cornerstone of a successful Japanese sushi restaurant. While H-E-B sushi is surely serviceable in a pinch, sushi is best appreciated when... | 12/28/2011
• Tura Satana The Sharpest Claws | 12/28/2011
• Sylvia Robinson Yes, Y’All | 12/28/2011
• Bert Jansch It Don’t Bother Me | 12/28/2011
• Chul Hyun Ahn explores the Infinite Void The humble materials in Ahn’s work help preserve an approachable quality | 12/21/2011

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