AltWeeklies Wire
Red State, Meet Police Statenew
Is Homeland Security's harrassment of a federal employee for the stickers on his car a mistake, a new rule or part of a trend of the First Amendment being bullied out of existence?
Boise Weekly |
Nicholas Collias |
02-15-2006 |
Civil Liberties
Idaho Xenophobe Wants National Powernew
Canyon County Commissioner Robert Vasquez only speaks about a single issue: illegal aliens. But can someone intending to run for a seat in Congress have a campaign based solely on an issue as divisive and difficult as immigration reform?
Boise Weekly |
Nicholas Collias |
06-26-2005 |
Immigration
Mann Is Still the Man
This is how a movie about assassins should be: dark, impersonal, loud like a gunshot and full of palpable dread.
Boise Weekly |
Nicholas Collias |
08-12-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Mann, Collateral
"Secret Things" Leaves Nothing to the Imaginationnew
For "Shrek 2" and French director Jean-Claude Brisseau’s "Secret Things" to simultaneously show in the same theater complex feels appropriate—albeit only in a highly perverse way.
Boise Weekly |
Nicholas Collias |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
It's In for Historical Revisionists to Out Dead Guys
In recent years, people have speculated, often on thin evidence, that Leonardo da Vinci, Thoreau, Hitler and Jesus are gay.
Boise Weekly |
Nicholas Collias |
08-07-2004 |
LGBT
Paying Tribute to Haiti's Moral Beaconnew
Demme is able to make the life of one maverick character, Haitian radio journalist and folk hero Jean Dominique, illuminate the best and worst capacities of an entire culture.
Boise Weekly |
Nicholas Collias |
06-10-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Demme, The Agronomist
