Film: Beat a retreat? While Kanye West looks within and Mos Def styles himself as a quasi-jihadist, a head wonders, what happened to the rage, urgency, and political direction in hip-hop? By Oliver Wang
Film: Y'all naturel Into the woods with outsider filmmaker Phil Chambliss. By Dennis Harvey
Music: No choice Early “out of the closet and into the pit” queercore statesmen Limpwrist return to the trenches, and Latino punk vet Martin Sorrondeguy relocates to the Bay Area. By George Chen
