Matt Stone on 'Team America,' the MPAA and puppet sex

What the HELL is he talking about!?
By Tom Hanada
INTERMISSION| Best known for their lovable, perverted, profanity-laden, cut-out characters from “South Park,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone have recently completed a new movie.

Laura Linney and director Dylan Kidd reflect on 'P.S.'

By Nicole Beckley
INTERMISSION| She’s wearing a smart pinstripe suit. She walks in and she looks the way she does on screen — a little flustered, mussed hair, hard and soft at the same time.

'P.S' is definitely not a piece of $!@#$

By Nicole Beckley
INTERMISSION| What if the only thing that stood between you and true happiness was yourself?

'Final Cut' is unoriginal sci fi at its worst

By Cole Paulson
INTERMISSION| What I’ve dreaded most has arrived at last. The most innovative genre in the movie business seems to have finally lost its freshness: They’ve made a “high-concept sci-fi thriller” that is sadly just one big been-there, done-that”snorer.

Interpol wins the war on terror

By Karan Mahajan
INTERMISSION| achromatopsia Med. also see achromatopsy. [Mod.L., f. Gr. a’xrw´mat-oj without colour + -oyi´a seeing f. o’´yij sight.

"The Love Wife," as opposed to wife of carnal pleasures

By Anna North
INTERMISSION| The title of Gish Jen’s third novel, “The Love Wife,” doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence. To a jaded reader, it may sound like a knockoff of an earlier work — remember Amy Tan’s sophomore effort, “The Kitchen God’s Wife”?

Dancing on moonlight

By Emily Hite
INTERMISSION| Smuin Ballet’s opening night of “Fly Me to the Moon” at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco was a positively enjoyable viewing experience, highlighted both by Michael Smuin’s featured work to Frank Sinatra music and Amy Seiwert’s new ballet, “Ruhig.

Making it big underground - artists who haven't sold out yet

By Bonnie Johnson
INTERMISSION| Devendra Banhart Formerly an art student in San Francisco, Devendra Banhart is perfect in his role as the new darling of the acoustic lo-fi scene.

Emperor Itzhak's new clothes

By Nick Casey
INTERMISSION| Who am I, a lowly viola player, to talk trash about the great Itzhak Perlman?