My Chemical Romance, the best band with the best album, or the worst band with the worst album, according to a 'Kerrang' magazine poll, is coming to Taiwan. Interested?
By Noah Buchan
My Chemical Romance (MCR) is, perhaps, one of today's most loved and hated rock groups.

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The second season of CTV's One Million Star (超級星光大道) "talent" show ended on a high note last Friday when club singer Lai Ming-wei (賴銘偉) beat favorite Liang Wen-yin (梁文音) to walk home with a diamond-studded trophy, an NT$1 million cash prize and a contract with Universal Music Taiwan.

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Being known as an expat band can be a double-edged sword. Or that's how it seemed to the members of Kaohsiung rock band Tsunami. The novelty landed them gigs at the Kaohsiung City Hall Christmas show and supporting Chang Chen-yue (張震嶽) and his band Free 9, they say, but it also limited their development.

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Is a woman less of a woman if she doesn't conform to commonly accepted ideals of femininity? Why should we do what most people think is right and proper? These questions and more will be the motifs of Wan Fang's (萬芳) concert tomorrow night at Riverside Cafe (河岸留言).

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BY TAIPEI TIMES STAFF
1. Aska Yang (楊宗緯) and Dove (鴿子)

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Theater

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By Blake Carter
There's a secret to Kiss Me Troupe's latest musical, The King's Donkey Ears (國王的驢耳朵). The drama unfolds in a kingdom called Felicity in which all the inhabitants are happy. But - as is often the case in lyric and legend - not quite all is felicitous for the Felicians.

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By Tom Leeming
Get some sleep tonight, because your Saturday in Taipei is sorted. Three parties. Three genres. One pretty new, one a massive DJ crew, plus an obligatory Luxy tip, too.

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By Ho Yi
Restaurants come and go in the trend-setting neighborhood centered around Taipei's Zhongxiao East (忠孝東) and Dunhua South (敦化南) roads, but Lao Yo Chi has remained a fixture, serving inexpensive Cantonese snacks for the last 13 years.

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By Ian Bartholomew
When you've had enough of soy milk or cereal breakfasts and want something warm and substantial to set you up for the day, a visit to the Pot Pie Cafe, a sympathetic little joint that opened two months ago near the Technology Building metro station is just the ticket.

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Based on a remake of a remake, this three-peat renders insufferable what used to merely be insignificant, despite the best efforts of Jude Law and Michael Caine
By Manohla Dargis
If you like your contempt for humanity served overcooked and oozing fatty blobs of preening, lazy self-regard, you could not improve on Harold Pinter's redo of the 1970 Anthony Shaffer play Sleuth, which Kenneth Branagh has used to remake the 1972 Joseph Mankiewicz film of the same title. (Got that?) The result is that what was once insignificant is now insufferable, though, at 86 minutes, almost an hour shorter.

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Boring characters, dull heroism and crass references to Sept. 11 have us rooting for 'Cloverfield's' monster
By Manohla Dargis
It was only last month that Will Smith started up boogeyman patrol in Manhattan in I Am Legend, and yet here we go again with the end of the world, or at least some of New York's most exclusive ZIP codes. This time, the annihilation comes courtesy of a reptilian creature with a slithering, smashing tail, multiple grabby appendages and an apparently insatiable appetite for destruction. At one point in Cloverfield, you get a close, very personal look at that hungry mouth, which agape recalls that of the adult monster designed by H.R. Giger for the first Alien, though without any of the older beastie's freakily sexualized menace or resonance.

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The largest indie festival in the US is well into its second week, but with acquisitions at a minimum in Park City, Utah, other activities and events take center stage
By David Carr
Twelve centimeters of perfect, powdery snow fell here Monday, carrying a message to the frantic crowd in temporary residence at the Sundance Film Festival: Slow down. Forget the branded parties on Main Street and the accompanying marketplace of film, and just enjoy the crunch of snow underfoot as you make your way to the next screening.

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By Martin Williams
Maiko Haaaan!!!

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City cinema weekend box office takings (Jan. 19 and Jan. 20)
Source: Group Power Entertainment Corp
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (瘋狂理髮師:倫敦首席惡魔剃刀手) NT$6,228,588

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With idled entertainment industry workers and Oscar-nominated actors among the interested observers, striking writers and studios are talking again after weeks of bargaining silence.

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