AltWeeklies Wire
Mike McNamara’s Biggest Role Yetnew
In addition to getting steady work as an actor, writing a column and hosting a radio program, on the first Tuesday of every month except January, Mike McNamara hosts the Midwest Independent Film Festival, a monthly screening of regional films.
Isthmus |
Ed M. Koziarski |
02-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Why Rambo Fightsnew
Rambo has speed and power, even grace, which is to say it serves up its heapin' helpin' of red meat on a silver platter. But it's not just a splatter-fest. Stallone's picking up on the nihilism that's out there — the idealism, too.
Tags: Rambo, Sylvester Stallone
Local Acts Come Close to Real Thingnew
Ever since Bob Dylan inaugurated the era of the singer-songwriter, most pop acts write their own material. But some local musicians are finding great success in playing the songs of other, more famous artists.
Isthmus |
Kenneth Burns |
02-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
State Changes Make It Harder for Familiesnew
Last year, to help plug a $70 million budget gap, the state froze its subsidies to child-care providers at 2005 levels. It doesn't plan to raise the rates again until 2009.
Isthmus |
Vikki Kratz |
02-04-2008 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Two Experts Size Up Political Choicesnew
Our advice: Pick who you want now, before the post-Super Tuesday punditry onslaught convinces you it doesn't matter. Choose based on who you'd most like to see become president. Then stick to it, come hell or low numbers.
Isthmus |
Rick Berg and Ruth Conniff |
02-04-2008 |
Commentary
Director Gregory Hoblit Sick for Thinking We Want to Watchnew
The only remotely decent thing about this rote, icky thriller is Diane Lane, who manages to make her character appear competent, even as the plot collapses around her.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Al Hoff |
02-04-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Gregory Hoblit, Untraceable
John Sayles' Latest is Personal Outingnew
As hokey as Honeydripper's epiphany-of-the-axe scene is, it is rooted in reality. Somewhere, somehow, 50 or so years ago, audiences, especially teens, caught a new sound – and it was, in a word, electrifying.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Al Hoff |
02-04-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Honeydripper, John Sayles
Real World Experience Helping Band Succeednew
Ra Ra Riot graduated from being a college band to a real band in the world and are just trying to live up to that.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
02-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ra Ra Riot
Sensuality and Storytelling Rulenew
Sheryl St. Germain offers a kind of time-lapse of two decades of her life and art -- it's a passionate, sometimes wrenching compendium with a few notable weaknesses.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
02-04-2008 |
Poetry
Tackling the Diversity Issuenew
Sometimes a summit allows people to cooperate to find solutions to racial profiling and violence.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Ali McNally |
02-04-2008 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Folk Gets Punkednew
Not many folk musicians could gain local favor by playing amongst the punk and metal mainstays of Colorado, but the Denver-based jazz-folk outfit Paper Bird has been able to pull it off.
Boulder Weekly |
Josie Dembiczak |
02-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Don't Judge Film By Its Plot Linenew
It sounds corny, but How She Move proves you can’t judge a film by its plot line, even if it sounds suspiciously similar to a few other movies about stomping the yard and dreaming your dream and dancing like you mean it.
Boulder Weekly |
Michael Phillips |
02-04-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: How She Move, Ian Iqbal Rashid
Now You See Him The Next Big Thingnew
Eli Gottlieb is a Mad Scientist. He nurtures the voices in his head until they rise from the operating table, trash the laboratory and attack the villagers. He’s a character writer, and in an age where readers need a plot like junkies needs a fix, that’s a rare thing.
Boulder Weekly |
Dale Bridges |
02-04-2008 |
Fiction
Expect Dance Party Vibenew
Gabe Saporta feels because Cobra Starship had been touring for most of the year, it had developed a band sound that did not exist when he wrote the first CD. And indeed ¡Viva La Cobra! is stronger, more cohesive than the first album.
Boulder Weekly |
Alan Sculley |
02-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cobra Starship, ¡Viva La Cobra!
The Democratic ticket: Clinton-Obama? Obama-Webb?new
So, assuming Clinton wins, will the Democratic ticket be Clinton-Obama in November?
Boulder Weekly |
Paul Danish |
02-04-2008 |
Commentary
