Email Author Ernest Hardy

2007 Stories by Ernest Hardy

• N.W.A: Compton's Most Vaunted a Hard Act to Follow

  published December 6, 2007

  “Here’s a li’l somethin’ ’bout a nigga like me...”—First line, third track, heart of the matter: “Gangsta Gangsta”C... More >>

• LGBT People of Color Film Festival

  published November 29, 2007

  From the screening of classics both familiar (writer-director Cheryl Dunye’s 1996 crowd-pleaser, The Watermelon Woman) and little... More >>

• Annie Lennox: Songs of Mass Destruction

  published November 15, 2007

  ANNIE LENNOX Songs of Mass Destruction | AristaAnnie Lennox’s last CD, Bare, was her post-divorce... More >>

• Music

  published November 8, 2007

  The contrived media beef between 50 Cent and Kanye West in the weeks preceding the September 11th release of their latest CDs (Curtis and... More >>

• Fall Harvest

  published November 8, 2007

  The contrived media beef between 50 Cent and Kanye West in the weeks preceding the September 11th release of their latest CDs (Curtis... More >>

• Pointed Shoots

  published October 4, 2007

  This year’s Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival shows the event, now in its 11th year, having settled into a comfortable... More >>

• Amazing Grace

  published August 23, 2007

  Deniece Williams, Emotions at Sunset Junction, Saturday, August 18It was the bitterest of ironies. Deniece Williams opened her... More >>

• Dorian Wood: Beautiful Losing

  published August 16, 2007

  “It’s a rewarding challenge to ignite visuals in the listener’s head and to bring out specific emotions,” says Glassell... More >>

• Docuweek

  published August 16, 2007

  The programming in this year’s DocuWeek is incredibly strong. Of the nearly dozen titles made available for press screening (including... More >>

• Kiss the Boys

  published July 19, 2007

  Un beso. A few weeks ago, during his hot-ticket performance at London’s gay nightclub G.A.Y., hetero heartthrob and erstwhile... More >>

• Sarah Schulman’s The Child: The Toxic Machine

  published July 12, 2007

  In 1997, 15-year-old Sam Manzie sexually assaulted and murdered 11-year-old Eddie Werner. Those are the bare facts. Shrouding them, however,... More >>

• A Queer State of Affairs

  published July 12, 2007

  Watching most contemporary queer movies, particularly the American ones, is to see art reflect the downside of the progress achieved in the... More >>

• Music Videos

  published June 21, 2007

  In MTV’s halcyon days, before pimped rides, real worlds and big-budget awards shows, the videos they programmed often gleamed with a... More >>

• Björk and Ryan Shaw Go Genre Bending

  published June 7, 2007

  I have lost my origin/and I don’t want to find it again . . .—Björk,... More >>

• Mavis Staples Joins the Fight

  published May 31, 2007

  A few weeks ago, while tinkering with her MacBook en route to speak at the Porter Colloquium — an arts conference for black visual artists — ... More >>

• Jim Nicola

  published May 10, 2007

  Longtime Nuart theater fans remember when the concession stand had an old-fashioned wooden till in lieu of a cash register and workers... More >>

• Peter Woods

  published May 10, 2007

  {mosimage} About five years ago, some artist friends of Peter Woods were telling him how hard it was for... More >>

• Medusa

  published May 10, 2007

  Medusa was born twice. The self-described gangsta goddess of hip-hop was first born in the city of Los Angeles, and then spent her... More >>

• Small Town Gay Bar

  published April 12, 2007

  There’s no groundbreaking crafts­man­ship or technique on display in director Malcolm Ingram’s nonetheless very well-made document... More >>

• Nothing's Shocking

  published April 12, 2007

  Open the CD booklet to Timbaland’s new Shock Value CD, and there’s a close-up shot of the man himself, looking very much like Quin... More >>

• Tracy Thorn: Out of the Woods

  published April 5, 2007

  TRACEY THORN | Out of the Woods | Virgin RecordsAt their mid-’90s peak, Everything But the Girl turned out albums and remi... More >>

• Amy Winehouse, Beehive and All

  published March 29, 2007

  Monday, March 19, at the RoxyPerforming to a sold-out Roxy, Amy Winehouse gave a hilarious intro to the confessional song “You Kno... More >>

• Recent Spanish Cinema XIII

  published March 15, 2007

  The opening moments of Fernando Colomo’s identity-politics comedy The Near East, which screens as part of the American Cinematheque... More >>

• Let's Get Lost

  published March 8, 2007

  When he debuted 11 years ago, Lewis Taylor was anointed as the Man Who Would Save Soul. The singer-songwriter/producer responded with an album... More >>

• 4Hero

  published March 1, 2007

  4HERO | Play With the Changes | Milan Records4hero’s epileptic beats, synth overlays and glimmering strings have alway... More >>