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Cheney Still Hearts Gitmo; the Senate Does Not Heart Cheney

You've got to give Tricky Dick some credit. The man sticks to his guns (even when they're clearly shooting someone in the face).Amid the Bushie farewell tour over the past week, Cheney has time and again stuck up for his administration's use of, ahem, "questionable" tactics in treating prisoners at ... More >>

Alberto Mora: Profile in Cojones

The Bush backer stood up against Guantánamo abuses. Now he's an Obama man.

Get Out of Jail Free

Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack in Standard Operating Procedure.

Foie Wars

Force-feeding amounts to either animal farming or grotesque torture, but do our chefs give a duck?

Absurdistan

The next wave of post-9/11 political films trades sobriety for satire.

This Land Is Their Mine

Rock miners are prepared to dig near the Everglades.

Doc Block

Nonfiction continues its ascent onscreen.

Christmas, Bondage-Style

Spend the holidays happily tied up.

Catastrophic Kitsch

"Cathartic" makes tragedy trite at Abba Fine Art

Ramadi Madness

When every member of Florida's 124th Infantry returned from Iraq alive, it seemed too good to be true. It was.

We’re All Gonna Go

Straight to Hell, via the Miami Light Project

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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Camilo's Retreat

He left the war behind to enter a whole new controversy

Sympathy for the Devil

Even horny horse whisperers get off in Sundance docs

Sympathy for the Devil

Even horny horse whisperers get off in Sundance docs

History Lessons

The story of an Eighties anti-apartheid activist carries overtones of the present

School's Out

Locust rings the bell with adolescent despair and lollipop dreams

Now You See Them

DVD releases for the week of March 21, 2006

Letters from the Issue of June 30, 2005

Feuding neighbors, art objects, and combative cops

Current Art Shows

Feuding neighbors, art objects, and combative cops

Current Art Shows

Feuding neighbors, art objects, and combative cops

Current Art Shows

Feuding neighbors, art objects, and combative cops

Current Art Shows

Feuding neighbors, art objects, and combative cops

Night&Day

Feuding neighbors, art objects, and combative cops

Harry Goes Scary

The Prisoner of Azkaban takes a Sirius-ly dark turn

Saudade Cinema

Just say Mao to the left-leaning Brazilian Film Festival

Happy First Anniversary of Gitmo's 'Final Days!' Too Bad It's Still Full of Prisoners

One year ago, I traveled to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to watch firsthand as President Barack Obama pledged to close the extrajudicial prison. One year later, these guys are still hanging out by the Caribbean.​I was witness to Guantánamo's "final days," I wrote. It seemed like a reasonable thin ... More >>

Matt Damon and his WMD of a movie Green Zone confirm the big lie, Hollywood-style

One year ago, I traveled to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to watch firsthand as President Barack Obama pledged to close the extrajudicial prison. One year later, these guys are still hanging out by the Caribbean.​I was witness to Guantánamo's "final days," I wrote. It seemed like a reasonable thin ... More >>

"Instruments of Torture Through the Ages" lashes the Freedom Tower

One year ago, I traveled to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to watch firsthand as President Barack Obama pledged to close the extrajudicial prison. One year later, these guys are still hanging out by the Caribbean.​I was witness to Guantánamo's "final days," I wrote. It seemed like a reasonable thin ... More >>

Britto Sculpture Vandalized With Words "Not Art"

via Miamismpix.com​As Miami continues to emerge as a serious art power center, the city's infatuation with the colorful yet shallow work of pop "artist" Romero Britto continues to be a source of embarrassment and frustration for some. Usually it pop ups in derogatory jokes or blog comments, but an ... More >>

Das Racist Scarfs Fast Food, Mangles Mikes, and Makes Fun of Michael Jackson

Photo by Bek Andersen​In the hot-as-balls summer of 2009, three dudes from New York City -- rappers Himanshu "Heems" Suri and Victor "Kool A.D." Vazquez, and hype guy Ashok "Dapwell" Kondabolu -- banded together under the vaguely ominous moniker Das Racist, made some beats, spit some rhymes, smok ... More >>

Das Racist at Grand Central October 9

Photo by Bek Andersen​In the hot-as-balls summer of 2009, three dudes from New York City -- rappers Himanshu "Heems" Suri and Victor "Kool A.D." Vazquez, and hype guy Ashok "Dapwell" Kondabolu -- banded together under the vaguely ominous moniker Das Racist, made some beats, spit some rhymes, smok ... More >>

Dana Schutz's MAM show: Politics turned upside down

Photo by Bek Andersen​In the hot-as-balls summer of 2009, three dudes from New York City -- rappers Himanshu "Heems" Suri and Victor "Kool A.D." Vazquez, and hype guy Ashok "Dapwell" Kondabolu -- banded together under the vaguely ominous moniker Das Racist, made some beats, spit some rhymes, smok ... More >>