tweetleaks @ 12:22 PM on March 12, 2010

AUSTIN, Texas — Crafting a quality cocktail takes “precision, passion and patience,” says Adam Bryan, the bar master and “executive drinkist” at the East Side Show Room.
The potent potables he turns out from behind the bar at the funky, steampunk-inspired East Austin eatery speak of his dedication. Each of his creations mix the Old World [...]

tweetleaks @ 1:26 AM on March 12, 2010

With a razor-sharp mind and a butcher’s knack for finding the soft underbelly of American society, stand-up comic Bill Hicks sliced through pop culture with a white-hot intensity rarely seen. And then he died.

Now the late outlaw comic’s story is being told in American: The Bill Hicks Story, a documentary that combines Hicks’ righteous performances [...]

tweetleaks @ 9:20 PM on March 11, 2010

We planned our Wednesday celebration of Dark Side of the Moon’s 37th anniversary months ago. Pink Floyd evidently had plans of its own as well. And so does The Flaming Lips.
The day after Dark Side’s anniversary, British judge Andrew Morritt ordered the legend’s label EMI to stop selling singles from its brilliant concept albums [...]

tweetleaks @ 7:00 PM on March 11, 2010

James Cameron’s Avatar is the highest-grossing movie ever. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland recently opened to a record-breaking box office haul.
What do these two movies have in common? No, not men with weirdly colored faces. No, not people having an amazing size-changing adventure. What? No, Alan Rickman wasn’t in Avatar. Flowers? What are you … [...]

tweetleaks @ 5:08 PM on March 11, 2010

In a zig-zagging departure from the one-person-steers-the-ship movie making standard, Untitled Comedy is being shot by half a dozen different filmmakers. They include X-Men 3 director Brett Ratner, Something About Mary’s Peter Farrelly and subversive Mr. Show co-creator Bob Odenkirk. The concept: each director takes charge of one segment of a feature-length picture. [...]