Conor McPherson's The Seafarer (Seattle Rep, Weds.-Sun., 7:30, Sat. & Sun. 2 p.m. Tix $15-$59) is host to a whole series of contradictions, not the least of which is that, after spending two hours watching a bunch of middle-aged Irishmen drink themselves nearly to death, we left the theatre thinking...

Monday night, South African artist William Kentridge sold out a performance/lecture at Kane Hall. By the time we arrived forty minutes early for the 7:30 event, a line of almost two hundred people were already snaked from the doors to the lecture hall, up the stairs and around the second floor. Will...

FILM: Luis Bunuel's Belle de Jour (1966) is a sumptuous, albeit totally pretentious, piece of French eye candy. Fresh off of Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964) -- AKA, the greatest movie in the universe -- Catherine Deneuve plays a bored housewife who moonlights as a hooker while wearing phenomenal ...

Hopefully, everyone who's planning on pouring into the Chicago Theater tonight to watch Bill Maher and Ann Coulter face off will take the time to read the reports from the appearances over the last couple nights - so they'll have an opportunity to head over to the box office and request their money ...

That Ed Begley, Jr. So handsome. And ecofriendly to boot. BEGLEY VISION: We don't know about you but we are stoked about this visit from Ed Begley, Jr., who wants to tell us all about--and write his name on--his new book, Living Like Ed: A Guide To Eco-Friendly Life. It's not clear if Ed bicycled up...

Gosh, the "U2uesday" jokes. It was like the Irish quartet only became richer than most of the world so they'd have the power to physically alter the naming conventions of our work week. A rundown of reactions to Bono, et al's rattle and hum through the local media landscape yesterday, which included...

Ian Muttoo Like the Metro, the British Library's red brick building on Euston Road is unbelievably 10 years old. But it was designed to last at least 150 years - that's a hell of a job of future proofing the national home of the printed word. We can barely begin to image the intricate bowels below, ...

Curated by Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) with support from the Department of Applied Social Sciences at London Metropolitan University, Liminal: A Question of Position opens tonight at the 2008 RIBA Award winning Rivington Place. With more than twenty artists investigating life in a...

"Trust Me" on TNT "American Idol" fans can now shell out $1.99 for an iPhone app that will provide them with a weekly update them on the vital statistics of the remaining contenders for the rest of this season. What isn't clear from the press release is if there will be geosynchronous Ryan Seacrest ...

A letter from Edgar Allen Poe apologizing for his drunken behavior in New York City is being made public for the first time. In the letter, sent in 1842, Poe attempts to explain the reasons for his unspecified "queer" behavior to publishers J. and H.G. Langley: "Will you be so kind enough to put the...