AltWeeklies Wire
New Hampshire: Passing Gas With Joe Scarboroughnew
I figured when I conned my way into the press bullpen at the presidential debates, I'd be privy to all the perceived benefits of knuckling up with the mainstream elite. The reality was sobering.
Dig Boston |
Dan McCarthy |
01-08-2008 |
Politics
The Music Year in Contextnew
How does 2007 stack up to its counterparts in decades past? Arbitrarily, no doubt! Let's begin.
Dig Boston |
David Thorpe |
01-07-2008 |
Music
Decision 2008: May Contain Artificial Ingredientsnew
We want you to do your patriotic duty and cast an educated vote for the candidate whose artificial behavior and disingenuous actions most suit your own. You know they're all phonies, but which one is your phony?
Dig Boston |
Mike Pangkos |
01-07-2008 |
Politics
Pissing in America's Stream of Consciousness: Day Onenew
These presidential candidates are aggravating me with their public displays of exhaustion. They should try getting irresponsibly cocked and hammered, sleeping for two hours and waking up before the crack to steer through New Hampshire's paralyzing cold.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
01-07-2008 |
Politics
DJ Assault is Strictly Bootynew
Regardless of what it's called, Assault's high-energy style, which mixes elements of Detroit and Chicago techno, Miami booty bass and the sex rhymes of acts like 2 Live Crew and Too $hort, lands him in about 100 different DJ booths across the globe each year.
Dig Boston |
Dave Wedge |
12-13-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Alvin and the Chipmunks' is Really Not Badnew
It's damned near impossible to look at those furry CGI rodents and not want one for your own.
Dig Boston |
Josh Elmets |
12-13-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Tim Hill
Dems Call for Torture Tapes Investigation: Should I Care?new
We've got several high-profile cases of outright contempt in those investigations already, with no substantive response by the Democratic-led committees in question, which would seem to call into question their actual commitment to such things.
Dig Boston |
Hunter |
12-13-2007 |
Commentary
Soprano James Gandolphini Sings Tenor ... or Somethingnew
Yes, Romance and Cigarettes is a musical, falling somewhere between the impossibly bleak Pennies From Heaven and, at the other end of the genre spectrum, the weirdly meta cheeseball antics of Moulin Rouge.
Dig Boston |
Shaula Clark |
11-28-2007 |
Reviews
As the World Turdsnew
"Things have been going really well on tour," says comedian Michael Ian Black. "People come, they laugh, and at the end of the night someone pays me."
Dig Boston |
Sameer Naseem |
11-28-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Getting Bogged Down With Cranberries in Mass.new
"Cranberries are Massachusetts's number one food crop," says Jeff LeFleur, Executive Director of the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Association. "In 1996, Wisconsin surpassed us as the largest US producer. One of our goals is to compete with Wisconsin in barrels per acre."
Dig Boston |
Cara Bayles |
11-07-2007 |
Food+Drink
The Onion Gets Stale With 'Our Dumb World'new
Our Dumb World more closely resembles a reference book of tired stereotypes than a fresh atlas-platform for inventive lampoons.
Dig Boston |
Mark Polanzak |
11-07-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Lions for Lambs' Offers Bumper-Sticker Platitudesnew
The next time Robert Redford decides to make a film about Iraq and the Bush administration, I really wish he'd run the script by me first. Or at least show it to Joe, the bum that hangs out in front of Starbucks. Or my cat Pearl. Because any of the above could easily have told him that this well intentioned muddle of mediocrity misses the mark by a mile and half.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
11-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford
MC Frontalot: Rep Your Inner Nerdcorenew
If there's one thing that blacktop hip-hop purists hate more than condoms, gun control and Bill O'Reilly, it's nerdcore rap-dweebs like MC Frontalot.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
11-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: MC Frontalot
Disco Biscuits Aren't Another Dreaded Stereotypenew
For anyone who gets bored staring at a DJ seductively twisting their knobs, or questioning if that wanker on stage with all the girls spilling drinks on his Mac is just pushing play; the Biscuits offer an organic, human mutation of electronica that channels energy like only bands can do.
Dig Boston |
Nate Leskovic |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Disco Biscuits
Black Clouds is Breaking Shit and Reminiscingnew
The guitar and drum trio from Providence and Somerville has been rattling rooms for the past three years with their brutally primal ur-garage.
Dig Boston |
Martin Pavlinic |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Black Clouds
