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Missionary Jazz Mannew

Steven Joerg of AUM Fidelity won't stop converting new jazz listeners.

New York Press | Saby Reyes-Kulkarni | 01-03-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

The Good Time Girlnew

Unlike Winehouse and Allen, Kate Nash has the voice without the attitude.

New York Press | David Chiu | 01-03-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

In the Arab world, and most households, culinary traditions are usually passed down from mother to daughter, and, far away from his mothers and sisters in Egypt, my father had no way to recreate the dishes he ate growing up.

New York Press | Aisha Gawad | 01-03-2008 | Food+Drink

Horror's New Kingnew

Producer Guillermo del Toro on Almodovar, the female force in film and discrimination against kids in cinema.

New York Press | Jennifer Merin | 01-03-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage

Inside the Mind of a Killernew

Factual consistency predicates the narrative in The Killing of John Lennon, but Andrew Piddington's re-creation of Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman's descent into murderous insanity is hardly a procedural investigation into psychological disarray.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 01-03-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Andrew Piddington, The Killing of John Lennon

Godzilla vs. Mothranew

How monumental estimates of a tiny invasive moth's economic and environmental impacts are threatening San Francisco with aerial spraying.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Sarah Phelan | 01-03-2008 | Environment

Tags: environment

A Year Without Altmannew

The notable abscence of the master director diminished the art of movies in 2007.

New York Press | Armond White | 01-03-2008 | Movies

Everybody and Their Brother Made a Movie in 2007new

Coens, Afflecks, Farrellys, Wilsons, Wachowskis… O brother, there art thou!

New York Press | Staff | 01-03-2008 | Movies

The Better Than Listnew

End of the year movie polls used to offer consensus; now they preserve film culture's herd-mentality. But anyone who responds to movies for what they mean -- instead of the way they are sold -- must depart the herd. That's how to find good, unheralded (often derided) films that don't insult the intelligence.

New York Press | Armond White | 01-03-2008 | Movies

The Herbivore's Dialoguenew

Eleni Vlachos' Seeing Through the Fence, an 84-minute-long collection of interviews, statistics and food production footage, is steeped in facts about the vegan lifestyle and animal rights.

INDY Week | Kathy Justice | 01-03-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Eleni Vlachos, Seeing Through the Fence

What is Roots Music?new

A cross section of the artists who've performed during the first four years of the Carrboro ArtsCenter's American Roots Series, this disc showcases the wide range of American Roots.

INDY Week | Rick Cornell | 01-03-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Various Artists, The Best of The ArtsCenter's American Roots Series 2004-2007