AltWeeklies Wire
Independents Hurt American Democracy
Open primaries are pushing the parties toward moderate candidates. Moderate candidates reduce voter interest. Could open primaries lead to the death of U.S. democracy?
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
01-29-2008 |
Commentary
Daniil Kharms: Aburdish and Brutenew
Today I Wrote Nothing is a generally knuckleheaded collection, so rife with undeveloped ideas and nonendings that you suspect that Kharms took great pleasure in tweaking his reader.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
01-29-2008 |
Fiction
O Twin, Where Art Thou?new
In seeking out her long-lost brother, Mona, the central character of twin time: or, how death befell me, seeks to understand the reasoning behind her mother's decision to abandon her and her father.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
01-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
Dress Me Up in Your Fuzznew
Stephin Merritt's newest love songs are all for The Jesus and Mary Chain.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jess Harvell |
01-29-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Distortion, Magnetic Fields
Susan Alcorn Charms Stories Out of Her Pedal Steel Guitarnew
She moved to Baltimore at the end of last summer looking for a more inviting and active experimental-music community, leaving Houston after 26 years of working as a touring pedal-steel guitarist in country and western and western swing bands.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
01-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Buy Organicnew
"You sort of make it up as you go along, I guess," Chris Potter says, expressing the fact that improvisation has had as much to do with his long-term planning as it has with his own playing.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
01-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
No Goats, New Glorynew
Maxx Stoyanoff-Williams is back with Black Landlord. Here's your two Munfs notice.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
01-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Black Landlord, Munf to Munf Lease
Jess Weixler Wants to Examine 'Teeth'new
Needless to say, Weixler was put off by Teeth's script the first time she read it, although less because of its content than due to the number of sex scenes.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
01-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mitchell Lichtenstein, Teeth
Nanking's Ransomnew
Nanking revisits a dark moment in the history of China and Japan.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Cindy Fuchs |
01-29-2008 |
Reviews
Soul Kitchen Digs Deeper for Your Listening Pleasurenew
A handful of Ubiquity-ites are helming a new weekly showcase at Memphis Café in Costa Mesa called Soul Kitchen (the name aptly alludes to Memphis' Southern-comfort-food-laden menu).
OC Weekly |
Dave Segal |
01-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Spartan Laughs to be Had in 'Meet the Spartans'new
To directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, there is no joke so lame it can't be repeated.
Trendzilla: The Harrington Jacketnew
Fully immersing yourself in a subculture is tough work.
Tags: fashion
Bedouins, Reggae, Sounds, and Clashesnew
With relaxed immigration and a stronger currency than the U.S. (ahem), Toronto isn't a bad city in which to be a musician, create a genre or two, or at least home in on the next mashup trends those gringos to the south haven't figured out yet.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
01-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bedouin Soundclash, Street Gospels
Jim Wurster's 'Hallelujah' is Darknew
Surveying a broad swath of iconic American musical forms -- folk, country, blues, and gospel -- the album has a bleak perspective that's as dark as its stark black cover.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Lee Zimmerman |
01-29-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Hallelujah, Jim Wurster
A Dose of Feelgoodnew
How else would the warm-up band kick off the opening-night party for a bar owned by Vince Neil?
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Deirdra Funcheon |
01-29-2008 |
Music
Tags: Vince Neil
