AltWeeklies Wire
2006 Was a Bloody Year for Buffalonew
No one can better testify to the magnitude of the gore than the leadership of the Stop The Violence Coalition (STVC). For three and a half years the coalition has been doing what they call "God's work," in its efforts to reduce Buffalo's homicide rate.
Artvoice |
Leslie James Pickering |
11-30-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Hanson on More Than 'MMMBop'new
To fans of the group, just celebrating the 10-year anniversary of their debut album’s multi-platinum release, the good that the band has done all over the world cannot be discounted by naysayers who credit 'MMMBop' as Hanson's only legacy.
Artvoice |
Brad Deck |
11-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hanson
'Lions for Lambs': From a Lofty Liberal Lecternnew
Dramatic is a quality that Lions never comes close to achieving. It's a ponderous creation of sentimental high-mindedness and stilted evasiveness.
Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford
'It's Britney, Bitch!'new
Is Blackout a "good" album? Not really. Is it "bad"? No, it isn't necessarily bad either. I guess the only way to describe it would be to say that it is, for lack of a better description, Britney.
Tags: Blackout, Britney Spears
Who Really Killed JFK?new
Vincent Bugliosi's 1,612-page book, which he spent 20 years working on, lays out a case in support of the Warren Commission findings that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of the president.
Artvoice |
Cy Alessi and Peter Koch |
11-09-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Armenian Genocide Denial: An American Problemnew
If, as genocide scholars maintain, the final crime of genocide is denial, one gets the feeling that the Armenian genocide has not yet ended.
Artvoice |
Dimitri Anastasopolous |
11-02-2007 |
Commentary
'The Darjeeling Limited': The Disorienting Expressnew
This is probably the most striking, and perhaps the most memorable, of Wes Anderson's five films. This doesn't mean that it's the best, or even that it's good.
Trucking Buffalonew
Truck traffic on the Peace Bridge is up as a result of NAFTA and it is expected to increase in decades to come, making the border ever less friendly to people, and more friendly to raw materials and manufactured goods.
Artvoice |
Bruce Jackson |
10-19-2007 |
Business & Labor
In Exile: Maung Tharanew
When four Burmese students were sentenced to seven years in prison for carrying one of his books, Thara decided it was time to escape the country before he met a similar fate. Now he lives in Buffalo, where he talked to us about about his exile, his country and the recent protests there.
Artvoice |
Ken Ilgunas |
10-19-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Maung Thara, Smiling and Nodding
'Gone Baby Gone': Right and Wrongnew
Some of the music in the film is a bit on the maudlin side -- and that's the only bad thing I have to say about it.
Tags: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
Bush's $hameless Vetonew
The president's most noticeable piece of roadkill to date, victim of veto number four, is the bill to fund health insurance for children of lower-income families.
Artvoice |
Michael I. Niman |
10-15-2007 |
Commentary
Tags: SCHIP
Emmylou Harris Presents Her Bestnew
For Songbird, Harris compiles her favorite moments -- largely lost and unheralded tracks -- from her nearly 40 years in music. The 12-time Grammy winner has a lot of fine moments to cull from for this stunning five-disc compendium.
Tags: Emmylou Harris, Songbird
When the Piano Calls Joni Mitchellnew
Perhaps the biggest compliment you can give to Shine is that it makes you believe that a piano did actually beckon to its creator. The album sounds like something that had to be made.
Tags: Joni Mitchell, Shine
Tony Gilroy's Power of Attorneynew
Gilroy is a veteran screenwriter (the Bourne movies) making his directorial debut, and there may be an interesting irony in the results: He seems to have been more successful in his new role than in his scripting job.
Tags: Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy
Once and For All, There is No Myanmar!new
Even the CIA identifies the nation as "Burma," explaining, "since 1989 the military authorities in Burma have promoted the name Myanmar as a conventional name for their state; this decision was not approved by any sitting legislature in Burma, and the U.S. Government did not adopt the name."
Artvoice |
Michael I. Niman |
10-05-2007 |
Commentary
