This year's 11-film lineup is typically eclectic, ranging from the disturbing Greek psychodrama Dogtooth to the long-lost '70s grindhouse actioner Gone With the Pope, to the self-explanatorily over-the-top Japanese Big Tits Zombie 3-D.

When Faith No More played the Tower back in October 1992, the show came to a memorable end when Mike Patton's evening-long taunting finally led the audience to swarm the stage.

The Duplasses' films wear like an old T-shirt plucked from a pile of dirty laundry on a dorm-room floor: disheveled and comfortable, but ultimately ambiguous about whether the impression it gives is of a lack of pretense or an absence of care.

It can sometimes be difficult to keep track of saxophonist Tim Berne's numerous bands.

After more than three decades of beefing up countless ensembles with his tree trunk-thick tone, Reid has finally thrust himself onto the marquee.

Few phrases will send a club full of jazz devotees scurrying to the bar faster than "I'd like to bring my wife to the stage."

"Not one person is a strict straight-ahead jazz player or a strict orchestral musician; everybody's got a pretty varied background."

Tia Fuller is determined to make herself heard.

No matter how popular they’d like their science to be, it’s hard to imagine Stephen Hawking or Neil deGrasse Tyson using terms like "splooge" or "fecal popcorning."

Beneath the homespun intimacy dwells an idiosyncratic sophistication, as they travel roads no less idiosyncratic for being unpaved.