The Oscars: The Golden Man Cometh!

By Kelly Peterson
INTERMISSION| American moviegoers may remember 2006 as the year Oscar questioned his sexuality... if they even saw this year’s best picture contenders.

Watch "Die Hard," it's better

By Ryan Lampe
INTERMISSION| In an early sequence from “Die Hard: With a Vengeance,” Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackon’s characters are given half an hour to get from a subway station on the Upper West Side to a subway station near Wall Street.

"Block party is in the House- for some"

By Brendan Marten
INTERMISSION| Everybody's hungry for Dave Chappelle these days. After giving his viewers the figurative finger last year when he bailed on his show for an "extended holiday" in South Africa, the general public has had nothing but the Season 1 and 2 DVDs to fall back on (as well as that one Comedy Central stand-up special that's been played, oh, about 30 times now during primetime over the course of the last year.

Midseason TiVo Workout!

By Matty Smith
INTERMISSION| With midseason cuts over, television stations have begun the tedious task of finding passable shows to fill all the empty slots in their primetime schedules.

Calder is living the surreal life

By Di Dang
INTERMISSION| “The Surreal Calder”, which runs through May 21 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), reclaims Alexander Calder (1889-1976), most famous for pioneering the art of mobiles, within the context of the European avant-garde Surrealist movement.

Even Jared wouldn't eat this Subway

By Tam Vo and Chris Holt
INTERMISSION| The Subways are the latest in a swarm of bands to ride the coattails of the British rock invasion. Their debut album “Young for Eternity” is aptly named, seeing as two-thirds of the band is under the age of 21.

The Veronicas should have Table Danced with Betty

By Sini Matikainen
INTERMISSION| The first CD I ever bought was in seventh grade, based on a song I heard on the Disney Channel. It was from a girl band called Bewitched, except that the band had oh-so-cleverly replaced the first “e” with a star.

The Roxies

By Roxy Sass
INTERMISSION| It’s Oscars time once again and there is still no “Best Shag” Award. That makes Roxy sad, to say the least. So, for this issue, Roxy is going to have an awards ceremony of her own — the Roxies.