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'In Search of Bill Clinton' Revisits the Monica Affairnew
Was Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky merely the weakness of an inveterate horndog -- or something else? Psychologist John D. Gartner explains.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
12-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Meal Cricket: Notes On Eating Our Six-Legged Friendsnew
If I'm going to be serious about reducing my impact on the earth, I've got to reconcile my own voracious appetite for protein with the impossibility of either beheading my own chickens or farming my own soybeans. That's why I started thinking about eating bugs. With recipe for Henry's Cricket Stir-Fry.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
10-28-2008 |
Food+Drink
Gil Kenan Practically Created an Entire Physical Realm for 'City of Ember'new
It's a worthy heir to other visually memorable fantasies like City of Lost Children, Brazil, and Tron -- but will Kenan be happy if his movie is only beloved by a core group of art-direction fanatics?
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
10-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gil Kenan, City of Ember
Human Desire Becomes Almost Kinky In 'The Duchess of Langeais'new
If you've been feasting on a steady cinematic diet of superhero blockbusters this summer, this adaptation of Honore de Balzac's novel, directed by lesser known (in this country) French New Wave alumnus Jacques Rivette, is like switching to Melba toast after too many banana splits.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
07-29-2008 |
Reviews
'Mamma Mia!' Cast Sings Much Evilnew
Like those freakish deep-sea creatures living happily in a toxic soup of methane brine miles beneath the water's surface, the cast of Mamma Mia! is unaware they're living in an equally noxious ABBA-rich environment.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
07-22-2008 |
Reviews
Arthur Jones Charts the Rocky Life of M. Scott Pecknew
Peck rarely practiced what he preached in his master work, The Road Less Traveled.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
07-08-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
African-American Male Exotic Dancers Protect Their Rights in 'Don't Hate'new
The documentary patiently deconstructs the myth of adult entertainment as the last refuge of the unemployed and anti-social through the story of Jim Bell's fight against one Maryland county legislature's attempts to outlaw the traditional etiquette for tipping an exotic dancer.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
06-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Women of The Yearsnew
Forget SI's vacant swimsuit smiles -- here are 20 babes whose babeness matters.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ian Grey, Emily Flake, Violet Glaze and Bret McCabe |
02-19-2008 |
Commentary
The Lebanese 'Fried Green Tomatoes'new
It's nothing we haven't seen before, women in joyous, sensual solidarity that's only slightly marred by the preservative tang of a manufactured moment. But there's something about the mise-en-scene that erodes our reluctance to sink into whatever this luxuriant movie has to offer.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
02-12-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Caramel, Nadine Labaki
Our Corsets, Our Selvesnew
A journey through the Baltimore pinup revival scene.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
01-08-2008 |
Fashion
Tags: fashion
Todd Haynes on 'I'm Not There'new
"I really think of Dylan as the consummate performer, even more than being this amazing singer and songwriter and wordsmith," Haynes explains.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
11-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: I'm Not There, Todd Haynes
The Value of Semennew
On one hand it's genetic dynamite, an indispensable lifeline to the future for a guy, and on the other hand it's just a step less disposable than other renewable bodily products like mucus or saliva. Lisa Jean Moore explores the contradiction in her academic study Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
10-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Trailer Trash' Shows Poor White Folks Differently Than 'Cops'new
Don Diego Ramirez's documentary humanizes its subjects without flinching from the horror of what they perpetrate upon each other.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
'The Chess Machine' Turns into a Soap Operanew
In his historical novel, Löhr's got an opportunity to lard his story with ideas about technology, deception, or gamesmanship, he instead settles for breathless and unsophisticated daytime-drama shenanigans.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
09-11-2007 |
Fiction
'The 11th Hour' Directors Hope to Deliver a Global Warningnew
The film distinguishes itself from other talking-head documentaries not only by the sheer emotional fervor, but also by demonstrating that our species can engineer its survival.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
09-04-2007 |
Reviews
