Robin Becker must have been using her head when she noticed the soaring popularity of zombies and chose the shuffling, living dead as the basis for her debut novel “Brains.” While it is true that during the past year zombies have been a tad overdone, her novel takes the once […]

#8220;The Last Airbender” is a film based on the Nickelodeon television program “Avatar: The Last Airbender” in which people of different nations are given special abilities to manipulate elements such as fire, water and earth. The lead character, Aang (Noah Ringer), has returned to his world after a hundred year […]

A Christian metal band has about as much street cred as Twilight, which is not surprising considering the cookie-cutter, copycat nature of almost all “Christian” bands and their rather ambiguous nature. I mean, what exactly is a Christian band? Are all their members Christian? Do they have to sing about […]

Gaslight Anthem’s “American Slang,” the follow-up to their critically acclaimed sophomore offering “The ’59 Sound,” suffers from comparisons to its predecessor and Bruce Springsteen, whose inspiration the New Jersey quartet exhibits with pride. While it’s true that “American Slang” lacks the “stop-and-listen” power of “The ’59 Sound,” Gaslight’s sonic and […]

As the latest addition to the collected works of Judd Apatow, “Get Him to the Greek” delivers everything you would expect of its brain trust. The film centers around a young record company intern named Aaron Green – played by Jonah Hill – who is assigned the seemingly simple task […]

Los Angeles singer and songwriter John West performed live in The Club on Wednesday, April 28. About ten people attended the performance, including staff from The Club. West, however, was not discouraged by the small turnout. “The key to not being disappointed, is not having any expectations,” West said. “And […]

EA Sports’ FIFA titles are the most popular and widely played soccer video games in the world. Even they will struggle, however, to make games like “2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa” effective in the market, despite it being the most realistic soccer video game I have yet played. I’ve […]

#8220;The Backup Plan” is the latest romantic comedy from the powerhouse of all romantic comedies, Jennifer Lopez. Lopez’s previously successful films, “The Wedding Planner,” “Maid in Manhattan” and “Monster-In-Law” set the bar high and my expectations even higher for her highly anticipated, at least in my mind, movie “The Backup […]

Straight out of the gate, the lyrics to “Paris” repeated something about “listen to me,” and listen I did, to the rather attention-grabbing introductory song to Kate Nash’s newest album “My Best Friend is You.” Released through the record label Fiction, “My Best Friend is You” is only Nash’s sophomore […]

Local Grammy Award-winning country, bluegrass and rock musician Brad Davis traces his passion for music back to the age of five. “I heard John Denver on the radio, and I think that was the first thing that kind of got me jazzed,” he said. “I started playing guitar at five […]