Arts & Entertainment

I just got back from vacation in North Carolina. It in a way, it was…

I have acquaintances who are changing their names. I say “acquaintance” rather than “friend” because I…

When I moved to Iowa in 1973, I didn’t like it much. It seemed like…

What I got this month was more like anti-color therapy, and all because I wanted…

BY DAN COFFEY The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between…

BY DAN COFFEY In a Seattle bar, I sang karaoke with the band Heart in…

After wrestling with trying to find a larger-than-life identity that fits, I think I’ve finally…

BY DAN COFFEY What is a midlife crisis, anyway? If I had one, it was…

BY DAN COFFEY Students always want the teacher to tell them what parts of the…

Is it possible to make a pretentious revenge thriller? Of course! The Brave One, a…

Referee Walter Day, owner of Fairfield-based Twin Galaxies, oversees player Steve Wiebe in The King…

I Am Legend. Will Smith’s take on the classic cult novel (previously filmed as the…

Into the Wild. I don’t know why I skipped Into the Wild last fall, but…

A criminally underrated film, In the Valley of Elah is a piercing, unsettling meditation on…

Edith Piaf (Marion Cotillard) parties with Louis Leplee (Gerard Depardieu) in La Vie en Rose.…