Subject: Queen Latifah

• Just Released CDs

  June 5, 2007

• Six Degrees of Charlie Wilson’s War

  January 8, 2008

• Tango and Cash

  Chicago dances its way through the origins of the celebrity crook

  January 2, 2003

• Turning the Screw: Dustin Prestige, Lupe Fiasco, Katy Perry/Travis McCoy, Dr. Dre, DJ AM, Lil' Kim, Damon Dash/Jay-Z, Talib Kweli and More

  Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: "Funny Valentine," Dustin Prestige Wire To Wire Lupe Fiasco, whom you'll remember recently announced his retirement, is rumored to be putting out rock music as British-accented Percival Fats, lead singer of Japanese Cartoon. (Listen here; it's actually pretty good.) The band denies such claims, s

  January 5, 2009

• Bill-bored

  December 15, 1994

• Sample Melody

  June 5, 1997

• All Wet

  February 19, 1998

• Weighty Rap Power

  December 17, 1998

• Turning the Screw: UGK, DMX, Common, The Kanye, T.I., Ice Cube, Trick Daddy, Lil Keke and More

  Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: Hollywood F.L.O.S.S., "Attack of Hollywood" Wire To Wire The new UGK is really good. Buy it. Matter of fact, buy, like, six copies. Flesh-N-Bone is unaware of a law against carrying a gun without a license, despite being arrested for that very thing less than a year ago. DMX gets out of j

  April 6, 2009

• The Secret Life of Bees Is All Honey, No Sting

  Buzz Kill

  October 16, 2008

• Pat Metheny Trio: Day Trip

  February 28, 2008

• Rap's Rapidly Vanishing Female MC

  The Why Chromosome

  February 21, 2008

• Chick Flick, Two Ways

  In Keaton v. Heigl, girl power (Mad Money) trumps bridesmaid fashion (27 Dresses)

  January 17, 2008

• Something's Fishy

  June 29, 2006

• Hairspray

  Movie musical of the musical of the movie is nowhere near divine

  July 19, 2007

• Anchor man?

  Playing against type, Will Ferrell can't quite ground this artificially whimsical romantic comedy.

  November 9, 2006

• Quack, Quack

  Raquel Serenil on ducks, music and Ronald Reagan

  October 26, 2006

• The Abattoir

  Goring another of music's sacred cows

  May 4, 2006

• God Save the Queen

  A talented rapper narrowly survives another lousy movie

  January 12, 2006

• The Impossible Bomb

  December 22, 2005

• Get Inside. It's Summertime!

  Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

  June 14, 2007

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  April 21, 2005

• Cut and Paste

  Beauty Shop is clipped straight from its predecessors

  March 31, 2005

• Summary of a Bad Black Movie

  Tyler Perry's Diary will make audiences mad

  February 24, 2005

• Gettin' Windy in the City

  The Chicago clip crew gleefully gabs on in Barbershop 2

  February 5, 2004

• Fallen Angels

  Charlie’s high-flying heroines kick ass, but not the sequel syndrome

  June 26, 2003

• Phat Chance

  Steve Martin almost gets Down with Queen Latifah, but they mostly strike out

  March 6, 2003

• For April 15: Five Movies About Taxes

  April 15 each year brings with it the journalistic challenge of covering yet another "last-rush filers" story, or some clever way to say that it's the deadline for getting your return in. (We still wonder if anyone's ever been prosecuted because their return had an April 16 postmark.)The subject of taxes, of course, is mind-numbingly boring, even if it's Star Wars rambling on in its intro about levies on interstellar trade routes. But it's a subject everyone can relate to, so Hollywood sees fit

  April 15, 2009

• Idol Beat: The One

  Mea culpa: Yi. I typed this entire post - then accidentally closed the Mozilla Firefox window and lost everything. Let this be a lesson to every blogger out there: compose in Word. For real.Photos by Ray Mickshaw/ FoxAmerican Idol winner Kris Allen practices his "Who, me?" showbiz face. Let's not belabor this: Kris Allen won. It is not, in fact, gay folks' time. I'm not especially surprised, but I am disappointed. What can you do, though? Adam Lambert will drop an amazing album someday. Kris wil

  May 21, 2009

• Bayou Beat: Live Nation Goes All In, ZZ Top Tickets Up for Grabs, Meridian Rocks the Sabbath and More

  Courtesy of Stephen "Rube" Sager Live Nation has outdone itself on its latest "No Service Fee" Wednesday. All day, $29.99 buys a lawn ticket - one lawn ticket, mind you - parking, all those pesky fees, a hot dog and a soda for any participating show at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Once they figure out how to make beer a part of this (stupid TABC), it's really going to go through the roof. Speaking of, Rocks Off still has a four-pack of lawn tickets up for grabs in our ZZ Top/Steven Tyler

  July 8, 2009

• Turning the Screw: Chamillionaire & Z-Ro, UGK, Slim Thug, Trae Day, Chris Brown, Meth & Red, Diddy, MCA, O.G. Style and More

  Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: Chamillionaire feat. Z-Ro, "Denzel Washington" Wire To Wire Slim Thugga cut off his braids. Not sure how we feel about that just yet. Check back with us next week. Been listening to UGK's Ridin' Dirty a lot lately. What Bun B does on "One Day," "Murder" and "Pinky Ring" might be the best three-song set

  July 28, 2009

• NASA's Biggest Job On This Shuttle Flight: Milking Publicity

  ​The latest space shuttle mission opens up a new, bold era in NASA history -- the desperate attempt to remain hip and relevant and therefore worthy of federal budget dollars.Commentators have pointed out how the agency seems to be embracing pop culture, but it seems to be getting to the point where it's less like NASA and more like NASCAR -- but instead of cars festooned with sponsor decals, we've got space stations packed with publicity-generating machines.Let's take a look at what this l

  August 26, 2009

• Distant Early Warning: Cactus Music Second Anniversary, Delbert McClinton, the Marley Brothers, Mindy Smith, Queen Latifah, the Slackers, Vallejo, etc.

  ​"Cactus Music 2nd Anniversary Party" With The Flamin' Hellcats, DJ Joey McKeel: Fri., Oct. 30, 7 p.m. Cactus Music and Video. Arthur Yoria, Colin Lake: Wed., Oct. 28. Warehouse Live. Delbert McClinton: Sat., Dec. 26. Verizon Wireless Theater. Dir En Grey: Mon., Nov. 2. Warehouse Live. "ArrowFest 2009" With The Doobie Brothers, Foreigner, Eddie Money, Foghat, WAR, Starship, Blue Oyster Cult: Sun., Nov. 1. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Doug Martsch (DJ Set): Fri., Oct. 23. The Mink.

  October 6, 2009

• Dancing With the Stars: Bidding Dazzle (and Debi) Adieu

  We'll remember the good times, Tom! Or something like that...​News broke yesterday afternoon that the unthinkable had happened: Tom "Dazzle Me Dreamy" DeLay -- former House Majority Leader, money launderer, and friend to the working man -- would be quitting Dancing With the Stars because of those pesky stress fractures he'd acquired from his rockin' moves. All day I hoped the news wouldn't be true, but alas, my hopes were for naught. That old man quit on us. I thought I'd already lost my i

  October 7, 2009

• Dancing With the Stars: Bidding Dazzle (and Debi) Adieu

  We'll remember the good times, Tom! Or something like that...​News broke yesterday afternoon that the unthinkable had happened: Tom "Dazzle Me Dreamy" DeLay -- former House Majority Leader, money launderer, and friend to the working man -- would be quitting Dancing With the Stars because of those pesky stress fractures he'd acquired from his rockin' moves. All day I hoped the news wouldn't be true, but alas, my hopes were for naught. That old man quit on us. I thought I'd already lost my

  October 7, 2009

• Inside the Rappers Studio

  October 8, 2009

• Distant Early Warning: The Wailers, Bob Schneider (Again), Hayes Carll, Peanut Butter Wolf, Queen Latifah & Dashboard Confessional Cancel, etc.

  ​The Wailers, The Supervillains: Sat., Jan. 9. House of Blues. 30 Seconds To Mars, Cage The Elephant: Thu., Dec. 3. Verizon Wireless Theater. Adam Richman: Wed., Dec. 2. House of Blues. Asleep At The Wheel: Sat., Dec. 26. Crighton Theater. Bob Schneider: Thu., Dec. 31. Meridian. Breaking Benjamin, Sick Puppies, Adelitas Way: Mon., Nov. 30. Verizon Wireless Theater.

  November 3, 2009