AltWeeklies Wire
Drinking Songsnew
17 Hippies used to play for a few beers, but they still play their eclectic instruments in search of a good time
New York Press |
Ernest Barteldes |
03-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: 17 Hippies, Heimlich
Norway Meets New Yorknew
Hanne Hukkelberg plays with found sounds to create "sound pictures."
New York Press |
Christine Werthman |
03-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hanne Hukkelberg, Rykestrasse 68
Nobody Loves a Nobodynew
If David Lynch remade Taxi Driver with equal doses of Eraserhead and The Elephant Man, the result might look something like the drab existential loneliness of Ronald Bronstein's Frownland.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Frownland, Ronald Bronstein
Yuppie Fictionnew
While David Gordon Green once exemplified the essence of independent filmmaking with his 2000 debut George Washington, his new film Snow Angels shows he has since fallen victim to indie film conventions.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: David Gordon Green, Snow Angels
Poor Man's Gamenew
Don't be fooled into thinking Stephen Chow's film, a tribute to Spielberg's E.T., is kid stuff
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: CJ7, Stephen Chow
Dirty Old Man Voyeurismnew
Gus Van Sant still fetishizes skater boys with his stylized images of alienation.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park
What's a Four-Letter Word for Geekfest?new
After a weekend at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Brooklyn, I think I've got it.
New York Press |
Meredith McGroarty |
03-06-2008 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
My Opana Adventuresnew
In which I abuse the new prescription painkiller, and (barely) live to tell the tale.
New York Press |
Mishka Shubaly |
03-06-2008 |
Drugs
No Chemical Romancenew
Josh Jones of Evangelicals says not everyone in Oklahoma takes part in drug-addled orgies.
New York Press |
Amre Klimchak |
02-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: evangelicals, The Evening Descends
The Lasting Greatness of Passing Strangenew
When the songwriter called Stew first appeared in the pages of New York Press, he trying to free his ambitious band from the Los Angeles power-pop scene. Now he's on Broadway.
New York Press |
J.R. Tayor |
02-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Passing Strange
Documentarians at the Gatesnew
The last collaboration of the Maysles brothers, in an HBO look at the Christo/Jeanne-Claude masterpiece.
New York Press |
David Blum |
02-28-2008 |
TV
Gut Issuesnew
Angioplasty? Colonics? What does the future hold for an unrepentant overindulger?
New York Press |
Joshua M. Bernstein |
02-28-2008 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Car Talknew
American car culture is celebrated in a female-centric road movie, Bonneville.
New York Press |
Armond White |
02-28-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Bonneville, Christopher N. Rowley
Inconveninent Truthsnew
An earnest attempt to remind us of all those big, bad developers who want to screw up the environment.
New York Press |
Raphaela Weissman |
02-28-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Laura Dunn, The Unforeseen
Cartoon Courtnew
Chicago 10, Brett Morgen's highly original documentary about the Yippie massacre outside the Democratic National Convention of 1968, reminds us that this isn't the first time vivacity, rather than urgency, dictated activism.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
02-28-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Brett Morgen, Chicago 10
