AltWeeklies Wire
How Sweet is Mardi Gras in New Orleans This Year?new
One week before the Crescent City’s annual bacchanalia, right in the heart of parade season, its beloved Saints brought home the Vince Lombardi trophy. (And on their very first try. Showoffs.) This year’s Fat Tuesday celebrations promise to be a Big Easy epic.
Artvoice |
Geoff Kelly |
02-12-2010 |
Commentary
The Artvoice Guide to Sex from A to Znew
Abstinence: This may be news to some, but teenagers like to bone. Shocking though it may be, this has remained a relative constant throughout history. Still religious and moralizing forces, buoyed by federal funding, conspired to make the 2000s the "decade of naivete" when it came to teen hormones.
'End Times' is Eels' Bleakest Work Yetnew
If you’re not in the mood to hear a guy falling apart on tape, this album most definitely isn’t for you. But if raw, heart-on-sleeve expression is your bag, and it’s a rainy Sunday morning, you’ll find a lot to love about this relationship apocalypse tale.
Beyond Guantanamo: The Story of Julia Hall and Oybek Jamoldinivich Jabbarovnew
The SOS from Oybek Jamoldinivich Jabbarov came to Julia Hall in 2007 via his attorney, Michael Mone. The plea for help, originating behind the concrete walls of Guantánamo Bay, carried the message of a man locked in a nightmare.
Artvoice |
Charlotte Hsu |
02-05-2010 |
Immigration
Buffalo Native Adam Lippes Has Fashion Design Down to a Teenew
When pondering the elements of high fashion, the staple known as the T-shirt rarely comes to mind. Let alone finds its way down the runway. To contrast with the logo-printed and distressed tees out there, Adam Lippes yearned to create a more substantial hallmark suitable for everyone’s wardrobe.
The Incredible Shrinking Metro: Building and Buying Our Way Toward Declinenew
It’s time to count up the money. There is around $150 million in taxpayer money that has been committed for the Erie Canal Harbor development, on top of more than $46 million in public funds that have already been spent, and the plan is to spend it out over the next few years to build a retail and entertainment district.
Artvoice |
Bruce Fisher |
01-15-2010 |
Commentary
Fruitcake, That Traditional Holiday Brick, Need Not Be Inedible: Try This Onenew
There's only one fruitcake in the entire world, right? Wrong. Here’s a recipe for an entirely edible fruitcake, made more delicious with a side serving of creole whiskey sauce, and some egg nogg to wash it down.
Artvoice |
Katherine O'Day |
12-18-2009 |
Food+Drink
Keanu Reeves on Rebecca Miller's Unconvincing 'Private Lives of Pippa Lee'new
How much you may or may not enjoy The Private Lives of Pippa Lee depends on either a) your interest in a crowded genre (stifled housewife wonders if she has wasted her life) or b) your interest in watching good actors do interesting work with material that is less than top shelf.
Artvoice |
Peter Rainer |
12-11-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bloody but Unbowed: Clint Eastwood's 'Invictus'new
The two things Invictus has going for it are the use of Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) as its central character and its underdog sports story. Americans like against-all-odds athletic tales. Even so, I think it may be something of a hard sell. Hoosiers this isn’t.
Congressman Brian Higgins Makes the Case for the Health Care Reform Billnew
When Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled the Democrats' 1,900-page reform bill, Higgins was one among those Democrats who jumped out front to defend the proposal against relentless Republican opposition.
How Bruce Eaton Uncovered the Story of Rock's Foremost Cult Band and Their Masterpiece Albumnew
Eaton's book Big Star-Radio City proves one of the most compelling and balanced in the 33+1/3 series to date.
Thinking and Acting Smartly Everywhere but the Rust Beltnew
At a Brookings Institution forum last week, policy wonks and local government officials from places like Sacramento and Salt Lake City discussed how they used regional planning to cope with rapid growth. What can shrinking Rust Belt cities learn from the places that are stealing their populations?
Artvoice |
Bruce Fisher |
10-23-2009 |
Policy Issues
Hilary Swank Talks About Mastering Amelia Earhart's Walk and Talknew
"You may think you know how it ends," Swank says about Amelia, "but you have to see it to see if it ends the way you think it does, because there are a lot of theories about it."
Artvoice |
M. Faust |
10-23-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Feds Bust Twitterer, Impound Fuzzy Dolls and Buffy Videos in War on Terrornew
Elliot Madison's real crime, it seems, is being a self-proclaimed anarchist, which is no more illegal than being a self-proclaimed Democrat or Lutheran. His tweets were not more informative or subversive than MSNBC's live coverage of the G-20 protests.
Artvoice |
Michael I. Niman |
10-16-2009 |
Civil Liberties
Small Is The New Big: Will Americans Have to be Shoehorned into Their Cars?new
As the world gets figuratively smaller, so too are cars getting smaller. Literally. And I don't imagine the average American (read: large) is going to like it.
