If Against Me! sounds a bit more comfortable or even relaxed on its forthcoming CD, “White Crosses,” maybe it’s a reflection of being in a more familiar place in writing and recording. For the punk band, coming to Port City Music Hall on Wednesday, the new CD (in stores June 8) marks its second time […]

NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY: “AVATAR,” starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver and Giovanni Ribisi. For the five of you who missed it in theaters, James Cameron’s eye-popping blockbuster/parable “Avatar” stands poised to set more sales records when it comes out on DVD this week. Cameron’s tale of a paraplegic war veteran (Worthington, “Clash […]

I’m a huge surfing fan. But the actual sport? Not so much — requires too much coordination. Yet the films dedicated to it are pure magic. There’s a visceral tranquility to surfing, and its best cinematic representations — “Endless Summer” 1 and 2, “Riding Giants” and “Step Into Liquid” — capture that quality with a […]

Two scenes stand out in “The Back-up Plan,” Jennifer Lopez’s long-overdue return to comedy after years of morose movie dramas, music videos and careful cultivation of her celebrityhood. There’s a birth scene, a screaming, heaving, New Agey single-mothers group gathering as one of their number graphically brings a newborn into a world of drums, chants […]

It takes very little time to determine which was David Brewbaker’s favorite decade of music on his new, groovy record, “A Sign of Life.” The thing is painted with deep swirling purples and golds, slippery major and minor-seventh chords up and down the neck, a la Steely Dan, and affected inflection, in homage to Mark […]

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