AltWeeklies Wire
Boys Don't Crynew
Why the best romantic comedies aren't about women.
Charleston City Paper |
Conseula Francis |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: 27 Dresses, Anne Fletcher
The Spooky Art of 'The Orphanage'new
The Orphanage is an effective, desperately unsettling ghost story that shows Hollywood how a horror movie should be done.
Charleston City Paper |
Nick Smith |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage
Recipe: Polenta with a Spicy Tomato Saucenew
Served with tomato sauce and cheese, my plate of mush was so good I lapped it up and went straight to the store and bought a tube of polenta that all the magazines were raving about.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Kim O'Donnel |
01-23-2008 |
Food+Drink
How to Navigate Wine at the Grocery Storenew
A few years ago, enlightened grocery-store managers figured out that offering decent wine might actually make them more money, but many continue to stock the same tired labels.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
01-23-2008 |
Food+Drink
End of the Machine Age in Atlantanew
The city's next mayor will have to break with the past to capture the future.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
01-23-2008 |
Commentary
Spin Doctors Frontman Seeks to Reconnectnew
The mixed commercial success of the Spin Doctors' recent albums and the band's perpetual love/hate relationship with themselves have influenced Chris Barron to record his first mainstream solo effort, Pancho and the Kid.
Charleston City Paper |
Josh Eboch |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Trans-formational Politicsnew
Forget for a moment the landmark major presidential campaigns of a woman and a black man. The transgender community is also staking a claim this year in politics from Portland to Minnesota.
Willamette Week |
Lillian Hogan |
01-23-2008 |
Politics
Tags: transgender
The New Music Collective's New Project is a Strong Effortnew
These aren't tweedy types scoring self-serving masterpieces that will never be heard. The NMC aims to perform its work. In front of people. And those people, some of them devotees of the jam music scene with curious minds and open ears, seem to like it a lot.
Charleston City Paper |
John Stoehr |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
New Database Could Make it Tougher to Track Illegal Spendingnew
San Francisco's recent move to a privatized electronic campaign finance database will make it more difficult to track amendments to reports on political spending, a change that has caused a conflict between top-level staffers at the Ethics Commission.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan |
01-23-2008 |
Politics
I Heart Choicenew
Happy birthday, Roe -- may there be many more.
San Diego CityBeat |
Aaryn Belfer |
01-23-2008 |
Commentary
The Fiery Furnaces Get Fired Upnew
The band campaigns on platform of '70s synths and heavier rhythms.
C-Ville Weekly |
John Ruscher |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Fiery Furnaces
A Clinton Primary Primernew
Biographer Carl Bernstein sees two sides in candidate's run for the White House.
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick |
01-23-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
How a Few Wine Lovers Upset the Va. Wine Industrynew
Immediately following the founding of the Wine Guild of Charlottesville, several distributors were furious. They said that by advertising how much wine actually costs retailers, and how much lower the Guild's mark-up is, the Guild would force distributors to undercut the shops and restaurants that are their most important customers.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
01-23-2008 |
Food+Drink
Killing Time: Dead Men Waiting on Oregon's Death Rownew
The state's machinery of death is clearly in place. But since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to resume executions in 1976, Oregon has killed only two men. Meanwhile, 35 men sit alone this week in their cells on death row.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
01-23-2008 |
Crime & Justice
The East Bay's Buses From Hellnew
After AC Transit purchased costly foreign buses that drivers hate and many riders fear, its service and finances took a wrong turn.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
01-23-2008 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
