Madonna gives Oakland the hard sell. MUSIC REVIEW Icon delivers the usual: new songs, revamped classics, dancing, swearing and flesh. By Aidin Vaziri, Chronicle Pop Music Critic Nov 3, 2008.

It’s hard to keep track of all the old high school comedies that writer-director-producer Sean Nalaboff nods to in his feature film debut, “Hard Sell.” Eventually, though, the movie finds ...

In “Hard Sell,” Hardy Buchanan (Skyler Gisondo), a poor high school surrounded by rich kids at his elite private school, struggles at home with his unstable mom (Kristin Chenoweth) and her ...

THE AIR in Samsung's flagship electronics store on the upper west side of Manhattan smells like honeydew melon. It is barely perceptible but, together with the soft, constantly morphing light ...