AltWeeklies Wire
Hospital Sees High Cost of Gun Violencenew
The trauma center at Highland Hospital in Oakland frequently treats patients with gun wounds, most of them young and uninsured.
East Bay Express |
Matthew Green |
06-04-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Local Emcees Offer Alternative to Bling Rapnew
Bay Area emcees like Lateef the Truthspeaker and his compatriots at the Quannum collective are questioning the materialism in hip hop.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
06-04-2008 |
Music
'Stuck' Cuts Both Waysnew
Inspired (very loosely) by an actual incident, Stuck is a eminently satisfying comedy of the grotesque, sporting all of director Stuart Gordon's flair for balancing queasy horror and near-surreal hilarity.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
06-04-2008 |
Reviews
'Bigger, Stronger, Faster' Is Smarter Than It Looksnew
In taking a trip down just such a road to self-betterment, this unexpectedly delightful and deep documentary bumps up against cosmetic surgery, steroid usage, and wheatgrass juice. As it questions the points at which an investment in exterior or physical perfection might constitute cheating, it holds up a mirror to the American way of life.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
06-04-2008 |
Reviews
'Love Songs' Steps Out From Under An Umbrellanew
Love Songs proves few movies are entirely terrible or terrific. Its crushworthy final half-hour is touching and sometimes magnificent. But much of its initial hour is maddening.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Ray Huston |
06-04-2008 |
Reviews
Can't Skateboarders and BMX Bikers Just Get Along?new
Guess what: skateboarding isn't a crime anymore -- it's gone mainstream. And now some skaters, many of them kids who never had to live in the underground world that I did, are using their legitimacy to push out the new outlaws -- people who ride BMX bikes.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Duncan Scott Davidson |
06-04-2008 |
Sports
Eugene House Concerts Scene Resurfacesnew
Eugene's house concert scene is slowly resurfacing. Just don't tell anyone. Offers an in-depth exploration and check-up on Eugene's house concert (rock, punk, pop, bluegrass) scene, circa 2008.
Eugene Weekly |
Chuck Adams |
06-03-2008 |
Music
Tags: music culture
Los Campesinos! Have Musical Unitynew
British pop-punk band Los Campesinos! brings silliness and general naïvety back to indie rock and do it with all the camaraderie of a band certainly more seasoned than these tweecore lads and lassies.
Eugene Weekly |
Chuck Adams |
06-03-2008 |
Reviews
Trendzilla: Beyond Bad Denim Flaresnew
More and more often these days, I find myself elbowing girls 10, 15 years younger than I am out of the way at sales racks for the last Anna Sui blouse in my size.
Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew are Pillaging for Beatsnew
The group's music, on all levels, is corny and ridiculous — almost carnival-like, like a scene out of a Hunter S. Thompson book. That didn't stop their MySpace.com friends from turning them into a sensation.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
06-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bun B's Delivers on 'Ill Trill'new
Back in 1987, when Chad Butler and Bernard Freeman were first writing the rhymes that would become their debut cassette The Southern Way, neither one of them ever would have dreamed that their music would one day echo off the walls of a Louis Vuitton boutique in the Galleria.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
06-03-2008 |
Reviews
Erykah Badu Makes Statements, Not Singlesnew
"Artists work so hard to create these projects," she says. "They're not meant to be 99 cents per track. They're meant to be listened to back to back. That's how I create them."
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
06-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Lay It Down' is Easily the Right Rev.'s Best in Five Yearsnew
Green and Co. (a crew that prominently includes ?uestlove) make tangible the sound of long-ago church-pew Sunday mornings spent making up for all those sinful Saturday nights.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
06-03-2008 |
Reviews
Lil Wil Takes Dallas Hip-Hop Nationalnew
With "My Dougie" in tow, he's looking to get paid.
Dallas Observer |
Pete Freedman |
06-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Disney Channel Fits Colleyville's Demi Lovato For A Glass Slippernew
She's now lined up to be the next Hannah Montana.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
06-03-2008 |
TV
