AltWeeklies Wire
Do I Need to Buy a New Television?new
If you're like the average American, you don't fully understand what TV's analog to digital transition means for you.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
04-11-2008 |
Movies
Voluntourismnew
Vacations to change the world -- and you.
Shepherd Express |
Jessica Steinhoff |
04-04-2008 |
Travel
Tags: travel
Blackwater's Terrifying Reachnew
Jeremy Scahill discusses privatization of war and civilian life.
Shepherd Express |
Lisa Kaiser |
04-04-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Wisconsin Dems Assess Hillary Clinton's Viabilitynew
Should she stay or should she go?
Shepherd Express |
Lisa Kaiser |
04-04-2008 |
Politics
Best Fare in the Airnew
In 2005, Midwest Airlines partnered with Shawn Monroe, executive chef at Mader's Restaurant, to create an innovative and remarkable buy-onboard dining service that features balanced, freshly prepared meals.
Shepherd Express |
Sarah Biondich |
04-04-2008 |
Food+Drink
How to Murder Your Wifenew
Sachs keeps the love-trianlge story in swift forward motion with moments of knife's edge suspense and surprises within surprises.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
04-04-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Ira Sachs, Married Life
Ladysmith Black Mambazo Gets Historicalnew
Instead of glorifying violence -- Zulu imbued South Africans with an indomitable fighting spirit in the early 1800s -- Ilembe ("The Greatest Warrior") celebrates perseverance and commitment.
Shepherd Express |
Michael Popke |
04-04-2008 |
Reviews
How Vampire Weekend Channeled Africa Through New Yorknew
What is a young artist to make of a post-Giuliani, post-9/11 New York City?
Shepherd Express |
Michael Carriere |
04-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Vampire Weekend
Kids in the Hall Preview Tour, Plan New Movienew
Kevin McDonald from the Kids in the Hall discusses the troupe's latest tour, and plans for a new Kids in the Hall movie.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
04-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Race' a Bad Rip-off of Hollywood Thrillersnew
Race is Bollywood masala (commercial) film at its worst, a concoction of disjointed scenes dressed up as eye candy in the form of pretty boys and beauties in an absurd story that wouldn't even hold up in a fantasy world, let alone the real world it supposedly portrays.
Shepherd Express |
R. Paul Dhillon |
03-28-2008 |
Reviews
Black 47 Makes War Rocknew
On Iraq, veteran Irish renegade Larry Kirwan and his band of pacifists attempt to conquer the current war with a song cycle of previously released and new material.
Shepherd Express |
Michael Popke |
03-28-2008 |
Reviews
Stoned in the '60snew
This is a novel about true outsiders who went too far outside and could only come back in after being airlifted out of Altamont, while their creations turned out to be the stuff of fallen angels.
Shepherd Express |
Martin Jack Rosenblum |
03-28-2008 |
Fiction
Nada Surf Has Maturednew
Nada Surf continues to fill its second act with songs that are rarely too clever for their own good and that are never afraid to reach for genuine emotion.
Shepherd Express |
Jon Gilbertson |
03-28-2008 |
Reviews
Low: The Notoriously Quiet Band Sharpens Its Teethnew
For more than a decade, snickering naysayers dismissed the Wrath of Low as a novelty: a slowcore group fronted by a harmonizing husband and wife that often perform for cult-like, seated audiences.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
03-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Low, Drums and Guns
Mixed Use, Mixed Messagesnew
The problem with multi-task buildings.
Shepherd Express |
Aisha Motlani |
03-21-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
