AltWeeklies Wire
Cokie Roberts Looks Back on the Women Who Shaped Americanew
Without the patriotism of women on the home front, Roberts says, the colonies could well have lost the Revolutionary War.
Shepherd Express |
Rex Rutkoski |
05-30-2008 |
Nonfiction
To Martin Short, Comedy is More of an Art than a Sciencenew
But comedy's proper execution sometime carries with it all the rigors of scientific enterprise, at least for the performer engaged in the pratfall.
Shepherd Express |
Michael Muckian |
05-30-2008 |
Performance
Santa Gets Experimentalnew
The second EP from the Champaign, Ill. group solidifies and tweaks the band's brand of infectious, psychedelic indie-pop.
Shepherd Express |
Casey Bye |
05-30-2008 |
Reviews
Call Them Panic at the Disco 2.0new
An interview with Panic at the Disco's Ryan Ross about the band's new direction, why they were ill-prepared for their overnight success, and the sorry state of modern-rock.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
05-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Death and Resurrection for the Boys of Summernew
Heath Ledger, Robert Downey Jr. and Christian Bale helm summer blockbusters that are surprisingly bleak.
North Bay Bohemian |
Hannah Strom-Martin |
05-30-2008 |
Commentary
The Untimely End of the Echo Base Collectivenew
On April 23, the Echo Base Collective prepared for what they thought would be a quiet Wednesday night of folk and performance groups when two police appeared.
Shepherd Express |
Tea Krulos |
05-30-2008 |
Music
Madlib's Quest to Blow Out the Borders of Hip-hopnew
The prolific hip-hop producer with some 36 aliases this time dons the moniker Jackson Conti as he explores Brazil.
North Bay Bohemian |
Gabe Meline |
05-30-2008 |
Reviews
Monocropping Leads the Way to a Global Food Crisisnew
The global agriculture market is busy cooking up a recipe for disaster. World grain production is on the rise, but this cheap oversupply has put millions of farmers in developing nations out of work. Equally problematic, policy makers are increasingly directing edible calories toward biofuels and animal feed. Meanwhile, impoverished humans starve. Is home gardening an actual answer?
North Bay Bohemian |
Alastair Bland |
05-30-2008 |
Environment
How a Local Plumber Became One of Tennessee's Most-wanted Bootleggersnew
The Alcoholic Beverage Commission swooped in on a stunned Randy Piper at the two cramped souvenir shops he runs in Lynchburg's sleepy town square. He doesn't know what they expected, but he does know what they confiscated: nearly $600,000 worth of his whiskey collection.
Nashville Scene |
Elizabeth Ulrich |
05-30-2008 |
Food+Drink
Cirque du So What?new
A suicidal stunt man and a little girl with a broken arm? This could get messy. Compulsive, self-indulgent fabulist--both the protagonist and the film have a lot going for them.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
05-30-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: The Fall, Tarsem Singh
'Lady Lazarus' is a Fictional Critique of American Culture Both Great and Smallnew
Lady Lazarus is about more than the cult of (dead) celebrity worship. It's also about the commodification of art, whether that occurs in the high prices charged for a "definitive boxed set," the creation of artists in graduate programs or the anointing of "stars" in the popular press.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
05-30-2008 |
Fiction
Controversy at Cannes: 'The Headless Woman'new
At Cannes, one can reliably emerge from seeing a near masterpiece only to discover that everyone -- or at least the influential industry trade newspapers -- has declared the very same movie une catastrophe! Such is the case with The Headless Woman.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
05-30-2008 |
Movies
Norwegian Pie: Joachim Trier's 'Reprise'new
Like their American youth-movie counterparts, the 20-something guy friends of Norwegian director Trier's Reprise spend a lot of time talking about and clumsily pursuing the fairer sex. Only, his characters are as much (or more) concerned with getting published as getting laid.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
05-30-2008 |
Reviews
Despite the Labels, SATC Movie is a Canal Street Knockoffnew
Trust me, there's precious little to give away other than labels, for though Sex and the City is every bit as busy as its HBO progenitor was, it's mostly plotless, not to mention pointless.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-30-2008 |
Reviews
Eminent Domain Targeted by California's Propositions 98 and 99new
Californians face two radically different choices for protecting private property on the June 3 ballot. But the campaigns for propositions 98 and 99 have managed to create enough confusion, suspicion and hyperbole that fresh surveys indicate neither measure is currently luring the 50-percent-plus-one voters needed for passage.
L.A. Weekly |
Jill Stewart |
05-30-2008 |
Housing & Development
