AltWeeklies Wire
Meryl Streep's Brillance May Go Unnoticednew
Long after her highly praised, highly artificial performances in the 1980s (and her by-default Oscar-nominated parts in the 1990s), she has recently entered her most interesting phase as an actress.
New York Press |
Armond White |
04-10-2008 |
Reviews
Parkour Lifts Young New Yorkers Up Above It Allnew
As a dispossessed teenager in a working-class suburb of Paris, Frenchman David Belle invented parkour, a way of moving with the purpose of findng the most efficient way of crossing a landscape, usually an urban one, by adapting to obstacles without hesitation or disruption to the intended path.
New York Press |
Derin Thorpe |
04-10-2008 |
Sports
Tags: parkour, sports & fitness
'My Blueberry Nights': Pie in the Skynew
Norah Jones wows in Wong Kar-wai's sensual, romantic achievement.
New York Press |
Armond White |
04-03-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: My Blueberry Nights, Wong Kar-Wai
'Flawless': Time for Her Close-Upnew
Demi Moore makes another comeback -- but this time she resembles a drag queen.
New York Press |
Armond White |
04-03-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Flawless, Michael Radford
I Won't Grow Upnew
In last month's Atlantic Monthly, Lori Gottlieb told women to settle for "Mr. Good Enough." But I want to hold out for something better.
New York Press |
Dana Schuster |
04-03-2008 |
Commentary
The Green Ladynew
With a brutal recession looming, what's with the New York Times' odd obsession with overpriced clothes?
New York Press |
Russ Smith |
04-03-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
'Flight of the Red Balloon': Blow Upnew
Trying to be too grown up, the film never penetrates child consciousness.
New York Press |
Armond White |
04-03-2008 |
Reviews
Martin Scorsese Has Withdrawn from Social Realismnew
The concert itself -- and by extension, the film -- is a hollow spectacle; it's a celebration of fame, not music as artistic expression.
New York Press |
Armond White |
04-03-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Martin Scorsese, Shine a Light
Alina Simone Recovers Russian Folk Musicnew
She's interpreting the late folk-punk icon Yanka Dyagileva's folk songs for a new generation.
New York Press |
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni |
04-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Aloha Embraces the World of Creature Comfortsnew
The band's radiant new EP, Light Works, conjures all the sweet contentment of home: it's a sentiment that isn't terribly surprising coming from a quartet whose name is the Hawaiian word for "love," as well as "hello" and "good-bye."
New York Press |
Amre Klimchak |
04-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Aloha, Light Works
Gladwell Huntingnew
A Nobel Prize winner takes on Malcolm Gladwell over the origins of The Tipping Point.
New York Press |
Matt Elzweig |
04-03-2008 |
Books
For Eels, There's Life After Memoirnew
Customarily, a career retrospective and personal memoir come at the tail end of an artist's career. And despite Mark Oliver Everett's claims to the contrary, the book serves as a fitting bookend to his tumultuous career.
New York Press |
Doug Black |
03-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Eels
'Meet the Browns' is a Woeful Setbacknew
Tyler Perry's primitive film style is no less arrogant than Michael Mann's slickness, but the addition of earnestness and gospel-gangster homilies makes the lack of technique especially offensive. The appalling thing about Meet the Browns is that Perry writes and directs as if his audience had never seen a movie.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-27-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Meet the Browns, Tyler Perry
'Stop-Loss' Is Merely a Respectable Effortnew
Stop-Loss judges its Texas veterans in terms taken from Vietnam-era dissent. The director doesn't exactly rise to the occasion for national unity, but at least her final image of Brandon/Phillippe doesn't sink into fashionable cynicism.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-27-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Kimberly Peirce, Stop-Loss
Obamalotnew
Can Barack ever measure up to Jack? We ponder the endless Kennedy comparisons.
New York Press |
Russ Smith |
03-27-2008 |
Commentary
