AltWeeklies Wire
Schlock and Awenew
Tarantino sets movies back 30 years -- too bad for Rodriguez.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
04-12-2007 |
Reviews
Watch and Waitnew
In the latest this-kid-is-good movie, Joseph Gordon-Leavitt reminds us that he's the actor you'd get if you could scour all the vanity from Robert Downey Jr., or reverse Keanu Reeves' lobotomy.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
04-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Scott Frank, The Lookout
Nature Studiesnew
Review of Gary Snyder's Back on the Fire: Essays and Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 60 Days and Counting.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
04-05-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Back on the Fire, Gary Snyder
Notes On the Have-notsnew
William T. Vollman talks about the plight of the poor, writing, the current state of the world and what he'd like to see happen to President Bush.
Sacramento News & Review |
Ralph Brave |
04-05-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Poor People, William T. Vollmann
Worst Congress Ever?new
Norman Ornstein, a Congressional analyst for the conservative American Enterprise Institute, says the 109th Congress is the worst in memory.
Sacramento News & Review |
Ralph Brave |
03-26-2007 |
Politics
All the Things That Make Us Laugh and Crynew
Seth McFarlane's success with Family Guy and American Dad might make him a contender to succeed Kurt Vonnegut as America's resident ironic wit -- if it weren't for The Winner.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
03-22-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Markymanshipnew
Shooter is plainly concerned with some of those base human appetites to which the cinema has proven so conducive over the ages -- namely voyeurism and murderous violence -- but mysteriously unconcerned with squandering them.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
03-22-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Antoine Fuqua, Shooter
War and Redemptionnew
An interview with poet Kevin Young, whose newest collection, For the Confederate Dead, tackles American history, grief and redemption.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
03-15-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Deadnew
A list of U.S. service members killed in Iraq.
Sacramento News & Review |
SN&R Staff |
03-15-2007 |
War
Tags: war & peace
The Iraq War in Numbersnew
More dead, more wounded, more money spent.
Sacramento News & Review |
Scott Thomas Anderson and Kel Munger |
03-15-2007 |
War
Nano-Nationnew
Researchers in California want to use nanotechnology to detect disease, environmental pollution and even terrorism threats.
Sacramento News & Review |
Donna Lee |
02-23-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
The Zodiac is Backnew
Who was Northern California's most notorious serial killer? Despite what a new major motion picture suggests, no one really knows.
Sacramento News & Review |
R.V. Scheide |
02-23-2007 |
Movies
Capital Spokesmannew
Sacramento professional cyclist Mike Sayers takes on the 650-mile Tour of California in what may be his last season.
Sacramento News & Review |
James Raia |
02-15-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
A Strange Kind of Lovenew
Peter O'Toole's still got it -- his performance as a "dirty old man" in Venus is a sly reminder of the obvious yet overlooked point that many a distaste may be defeated with a helping of the highly tasteful.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
02-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Roger Michell, venus
Heart and Soulnew
Molly Ivins is gone -- have we learned what she taught?
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
02-08-2007 |
Commentary
