Citypaper, April 2

Film Fest/Cinefest/Whateverpalooza week two brings a scant three reviews: American Violet, The Burning Plain, and Sita Sings the Blues. Plus, regular reviews of Greg Mottola's Adventureland and the dreary '50s sci-fi pastiche Alien Trespass, and Soundadvice blurbs for guitarist Julian Lage and the Blue Note 7.

Metro, March 23-27

This week, an interview with video artist/director Steve McQueen on his first feature, Hunger, which played the Film Fest; a preview of Danish symphonic-pop band Efterklang, at the First Unitarian Church; and an interview with opera singer Stuart Neill, singing Verdi's Requiem with the Mendelssohn Club.

Citypaper, March 26

Film Fest opening week, which this year brings 11 reviews: Able, Before the Fall, Eldorado, The King of Ping Pong, Goodbye Solo, Not Quite Hollywood, Number One With a Bullet, Wages of Spin, Art of the Devil 3, Left Bank, and Love, Soccer and Other Catastrophes.

Also this week, a feature on jazz cellist Erik Friedlander and his Broken Arm Trio, a pick for the exceedingly XPN-friendly Bad Plus +1, with vocalist Wendy Lewis; a Soundadvice blurb for ex-Wall of Voodoo frontman and all-around strange guy Stan Ridgway, and an arts pick for New Yorker reporter Steve Coll and his book The Bin Ladens.

Citypaper, April 3

The Film Fest issue. Tons of stuff this week, beginning with sixteen Fest reviews (just look for the S.B.s); an interview with Jeremiah Zagar, director of the doc In a Dream about his parents, Philly mosaic artist Isaiah and his wife Julia Zagar; a lead review in the regular film section for the Scorsese Rolling Stones concert film Shine a Light; a feature review of the treacly immigration melodrama Under the Same Moon; a short review of the Abigail Breslin/Jodie Foster adventure mess Nim's Island; a pick for tenorman Joe Lovano's Us 5 at Chris'; and Soundadvice blurbs for Ben Allison's Man Size Safe and Wolf Eyes.