Tangier (Accomack, Virginia)

Has a film's running time, in this case a breathless 115 minutes, ever involved so much actual running? The superbly kinetic action picture "The Bourne Ultimatum" treats its own narrative almost abstractly, as a series of hurdles to be knocked over...

Directed by Doug Liman, "The Bourne Identity" was a spiffy little summer action movie, carried by brisk car stunts and a confident performance by Matt Damon. Paul Greengrass took over "The Bourne Supremacy" and ratcheted up the tension to stomach-churning...

Longing for an out-of-country excursion but feeling a little poor because you have only dollars in your pocket? Relax. Even with the fast-eroding value of the dollar against other currencies, you still can find international destinations where your buck...

A year ago I was excited about Tangier in Morocco and wrote in my blog, "It's no longer the Tijuana of Africa." I didn't realize my comments would understandably touch a nerve with people who like Tijuana. So recently I went to Tijuana, a Mexican town...

A new work from French filmmaker Andre Techine is always a source of pleasure, if not necessarily excitement. His latest feature, "Changing Times," fits easily into that pattern. Techine, a director for more than 30 years, is best known in this country...

Big in a different Southland They've sold 250,000 records and played to thousands of fans in their native South Africa, but what does that get Just Jinger in Los Angeles? So far, a lot of dead ends and the odd 10:15 slot at the Viper Room. To say the...

Finding a space, and a sound For the Sound Team, it was all about creative space — specifically, 1,500 square feet of studio in Austin, Texas, where the sextet fidgeted, experimented and finally arrived at the wide-ranging songs on its debut album,...

Natty and naughty Check your high-mindedness at the door. Clear Static is back in town, natty suits all pressed, eyeliner just so and debut album now on the shelves for Jack Daniel's-swigging clubgoers who party like it's 1979. The L.A. quintet, all...

Gladly trading traffic for rain The poetic atmospherics of Trespassers William can conjure up an otherworldly state, but it was a fairly down-to-earth matter that led the group to emigrate to Seattle a couple of years ago: It's hard to play music when...

Where hip-hop, folk rock meet Almost a decade ago, when Elvin Estela and Christopher Gunst were in college and DJing at Loyola Marymount's KXLU-FM (88.9), it would have been hard to imagine the pair carpooling, let alone collaborating. Estela, under the...

They ought to be in pictures As the band name suggests, the music on San Francisco quintet Film School's debut album is keenly cinematic, its broad reach and faint restlessness owing to an affection for dreamy guitars and whirling keyboards. But not...

Welcoming a dark and ominous sound Los Angeles' psychedelic music scene bursts with more hues than a store full of lava lamps, and sometimes the fare seems just as commercially precarious. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club started as a shoegazer outfit...