Just walk around campus, and it’s clear that many students are literally hooked to their iPods, yet Turkish musician Latif Bolat sees them as an evil that is killing off musical tradition. Read more...

WILL Win: Renee Zellweger, “Cold Mountain” SHOULD Win: Shohreh Aghdashloo, “House of Sand and Fog” Sure, you can’t pronounce her name and no one has heard of her, but who cares when she can upstage Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly ““ both Academy Award-winners, mind you ““ in the same movie? Read more...

Charles Bissell is a natural born rock singer. His chords don’t have an effortless cool like Lou Reed’s, but instead a kind of natural brashness, an every-word-counts urgency that can turn even the most pedestrian lines into a keening credo. Read more...

WILL Win: “Seabiscuit” SHOULD Win: “City of God” “Seabiscuit” and “City of God” are films riffing off of already existing templates ““ Gary Ross’ audience-favorite was a film of considerable sentimentality and traditional American-spirit pathos, while “City of God” was a cool, disturbing homage to the many gangster flicks of years past. Read more...

As illogical as it may sound at the outset, Los Angeles-based band My Barbarian is in fact the logical result of the combination of an actor, a filmmaker, a video director, a playwright and a trained artist. Read more...

WILL Win: “Cold Mountain” SHOULD Win: “Girl with a Pearl Earring” Even though the first “The Lord of the Rings” film won in this category in 2001, the third installment failed to garner even a nomination this year, leaving the cinematography race a little more open. Read more...

When casting for his company, Stephen Petronio looks for dancers who have a fearless attitude toward dancing awkwardly and probably even looking stupid. Luckily for the eight dancers who performed at Royce Hall last Friday, only the fearless energy shone through. Read more...