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Here’s an important tip for any journalist interviewing someone with a suspicious name: Ask for ID. It’s a lesson a Baltimore Sun reporter learned, um, the hard way. Ian Duncan, who’s ironically listed as the “Military and Intelligence” reporter for the paper, had Twitter in a tizzy on Wednesday after he published an article about a Donald Trump rally in Maryland that featured a quote from a 19-year-old (that should have been his first clue) Trump supporter with an unusual name: “Jack Mehoff” (for those who are a bit slow, read out loud … it’ll sink in...

Later this week, the alleged final theatrical release directed by Steven Soderbergh will open nationwide. Titled Side Effects, it’s a fine little thriller involving psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry. Maybe not the grandest finale for the filmmaker who gave us such big movies as the Oceans trilogy, Traffic, Che, Shizopolis and of course Sex, Lies and Videotape, but he didn’t enter the business with a bang either. Soderbergh’s first professional directing gig, at age 21, was helming a little-recognized concert film titled Yes: 9012Live, which presents a 1984 performance by the band Yes during their tour supporting the album 90125. (You can see a clip of them doing “Roundabout” from the film here.) Supplementary to that, he shot a short backstage documentary during the tour called Access All Areas. It’s a crude look at the reunited prog-rock group both aesthetically and content-wise. It’s quickly cut, offering only bits of moments rather than full-on scenes. And...