AltWeeklies Wire
Ian Nagoski Brings Us Obscure World-Music 78snew
That elusive journey to another time and place purely via ephemeral music is what Nagoski aims for with The Black Mirror. It's a 24-track tour through obscure Syrian, Thai, Balinese, Indian, and various Eastern European folk music, with liner notes providing the best information Nagoski could uncover about the recordings, the music, and the artists.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
10-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Homemade Horror Crawls From the County in 'Book of Lore'new
By day Chris LaMartina works for the office of Mayor Sheila Dixon, shooting press conferences and the like. In his spare time he's trying to figure out how to dispose of corpses.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
10-23-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Book of Lore, Chris LaMartina
Adam Goldberg is the New Woody Allen?new
2 Days in Paris is a casually heady, observationally nuanced peek inside one couple's romantic foibles -- for good and, most humorously, ill.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
09-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: 2 Days in Paris, Julie Delpy
'Fear of Clowns 2': Blow Up Real Goodnew
Kevin Kangas' horror sequel debuts at a Baltimore theater before heading direct to DVD.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
08-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fear of Clowns 2, Kevin Kangas
'No End in Sight': Sobering Observations Soberly Presentednew
The truly horrible thing about Charles Ferguson's absolutely depressing documentary is that nothing it says is really new.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight
Children of the Revolutionnew
The latest movies from Michael Moore and Bruce Willis offer two very different views of our great nation.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
07-03-2007 |
Reviews
Not a Post-WWII Coming of Age Storynew
The plot to The Fury of the Entire World sounds more clumsily convoluted than it's told on-screen, as Pieters' plays this evenly paced mystery close to his chest, cagily dealing out his plot points.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-24-2007 |
Reviews
She's All Thatnew
Or, how I learned to stop worrying about liking young R&B strumpets and love my passive sexism and racism.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-24-2007 |
Music
Dennis Cooper Meets Osamu Dazainew
Ryu Murakami isn't afraid of the horrific side of contemporary life, which he renders in writing of an almost unbearable calm serenity.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-10-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Piercing, Ryu Murakami
Christopher Tate's MillionDollarPolaroid.comnew
The art student turns a found polaroid of Carlos Mencia into an internet phenomenon.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-02-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Man of Godnew
A new documentary charts the rise and fall of Jim Jones.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
12-07-2006 |
Reviews
Child's Playnew
How can you graduate from the kids' table without having kids of your own?
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
11-16-2006 |
Culture
Why We Fightnew
This is an impeccable wartime thriller from a French crime auteur.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
07-19-2006 |
Reviews
American Dreamsnew
Performance artist Karen Finley does sociopolitical slash fiction.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-19-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: George and Martha, Karen Finley
O Lucky Mannew
Josh Hartnett gets the best lines and Lucy Liu in this cleverly forgettable crime yarn.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-06-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lucky Number Slevin, Paul McGuigan
