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Keen with Wordsnew
Robert Earl Keen is a musical storyteller.
Metro Spirit |
Erika Bolin |
07-11-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Fine Linenew
The tortured and demonic part of Johnny Cash that stoked his genius often gets lost in the platitudes, the rough edges airbrushed by sentimentality. But not in James Mangold’s movie bio of the Man in Black.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
11-18-2005 |
Reviews
Fall Books Defy Disasternew
This coming fall and winter are thin on fiction but large on hulking works of non-fiction that might help us catch up with this runaway bobsled called planet Earth.
Boston Phoenix |
John Freeman |
09-27-2005 |
Books
Tags: in, wedding, George, of, Smith, John, a, rice, Christ, child, Robert, Joan, out, Frank, Mom, Jonathan, Collins, Goodwin, Gabriel, Wilson, Again, Anita, Anne, Berry, Billy, Bloom, Brand, Carol, Christopher, Coover, cotton, December, Didion, Doris, Dyer, Egypt, Eric, Fisk, Foner, Garcia, Geoff, H.W., Harold, Hodgman, Joanna, Joyce, Kearns, Kenneth, Kevin, Koch, Lord:, Marquez, McCourt, melancholy, Memories, Missing, My, Oates, Packer, Patti, Raban, Rafi, Scott, Shreve, SZYMBORSKA, Wendell, whores, WISLAWA, young, Zabor
Seen But Not Heardnew
By standing in opposition to modernity, the pope made himself an irrelevant--if beloved--figure in the West.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
04-12-2005 |
Religion
Worst Campaign Journalists Advance in Round 2 of Wimblehacknew
There is something negative going on when a paper like The New York Times runs the same campaign article hundreds of times, quoting the same 30 or so campaign characters, with only the dateline and the crowd photo changing. Second part of series.
New York Press |
Matt Taibbi |
10-13-2004 |
Media
Tags: New, York, bill, &, media, George, Times, Washington, HOWARD, Pundits, Chicago, Bob, Boston, James, Time, Robert, POST, Will, AP, GILMORE, Novak, Newsweek, Thomas, (1), (3), (4), (6), (7), (8), BENNET, BRIAN, BUMILLER, CAL, DANA, Def., ELISABETH, FINEMAN, Globe, GORM, HEATHER, HOFFMANN, JILL, JODI, Karen, MILBANK, MOONEY, NEDRA, PICKLER, POLITIKEN, SAMMON, SUN-TIMES, TRIBUNE, TUMULTY, VOELVER, WILGOREN, WOODWARD, ZUCKMAN
Big Names, Little Suspensenew
Despite the participation of Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, and Willem Dafoe, The Clearing is a psychological thriller sans suspense.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-08-2004 |
Movies
Tags: Matt, Robert, Alessandro, Craven, Dafoe, Helen, Melissa, Mirren, Nivola, Pieter Jan Brugge, Redford, Sagemiller, The Clearing, Willem
