1999 Week

Starting with Hear It Is in 1986, Oklahoma City outfit The Flaming Lips had a pretty routine schedule in their…

This week’s entry: Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace

Though the Y2K bug turned out to be a dud, the TV of 1999 was anything but—there were good to great offerings in…

1999 wasn’t the year of rock. It was the year of boy bands, of Destiny’s Child, of “No Scrubs,” of Cash Money Records

Given the wealth of great movies that were released back in 1999 and the general 1990s-era tastes of the Academy…

The HBO revolution was already underway in January of 1999, but the gulf between Sex And The City and Oz and…

For 1999 week, our film writers carefully compiled and voted on a list of the 25 best films of the year. But even a…

Twenty years on, it’s best to view Magnolia as a project of enthusiasm. Paul Thomas Anderson’s 189-minute epic is…

Back in the spring, author and journalist Brian Raftery amplified an increasingly popular opinion of contemporary…

With all due respect to Death Row, no rap record label has ever consolidated and celebrated its power the way Cash…

1. Cher, “Believe”
2. TLC, “No Scrubs”
3. Monica, “Angel Of Mine”
4. Whitney Houston feat. Faith Evans and Kelly Price,…

We’re well into the worst of the dog days of summer at this point, which means two very important things around…