AltWeeklies Wire
This Game Sucksnew
Don't rent this game, don't buy it -- don't even look at it in the store.
Dig Boston |
Adam Diamond |
06-14-2006 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
A Dirty Tricknew
All in all, Clean is not so much a story as it is a constellation of artfully arranged moments that lack any real connection.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
06-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Olivier Assayas, Clean
Garrison Keillor is Bad Companynew
Someone should put a gun to Garrison Keillor's head and force him to tell a fart joke.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
06-07-2006 |
Reviews
On Writing Songs for Clay Aikennew
This book is aimed primarily at those willing to hawk their wares as full-time songwriters -- not singers or bandleaders, but the kind of pencil-pushing music geeks who stay home all day working out songs on notepads and MIDI keyboards.
Dig Boston |
Matt Parish |
06-07-2006 |
Nonfiction
Practicing Judyismnew
It's just too hard not to be taken in by Judy Tenuta's wacky charm.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
06-07-2006 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Ejstes the Way It Isnew
Swedish rockers Dungen ride the giant, Nordic waves of success after their latest release, Ta Det Lugnt.
Dig Boston |
Michael Kanin |
06-07-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dungen
No Hookers Herenew
Don't let the fact that Rockstar Games' Table Tennis lacks many of the features typical of sports titles turn you off -- it turns out to be one hell of a game.
Dig Boston |
Seth MCM. Donlin |
06-07-2006 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Gay Bash!new
The gay Dig-sters go at it again -- in a special Pride Week edition.
Dig Boston |
Lissa Harris and Michael Brodeur |
06-07-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Am I Blue?new
Here's what really went down at the state's Democratic convention last weekend.
Dig Boston |
Paul McMorrow |
06-07-2006 |
Politics
Gore Returns to Save Our Sorry Assesnew
An Inconvenient Truth revolves around a live performance of Gore's famous slideshow -- it's obscure, embarassing and generally depressing, just like the last time Gore tried to save the country.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
05-31-2006 |
Reviews
Overstuffed With Troublenew
The Puffy Chair is ostensibly a wacky road trip comedy with an arty verite edge, but that's just a distraction from its real concern -- what the film really wants to know is if love can conquer endless bickering.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
05-31-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jay Duplass, The Puffy Chair
Chips Ahoy!new
The International Chiptune Resistance is a traveling pack of console crackers that make their jams exclusively with hacked Game Boys and Nintendos.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
05-31-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Cattle Decapitation Wants You to Dienew
Cattle Decapitation's latest full-length, Karma.Bloody.Karma, is another flesh-flaying shitstorm of high-speed hate, complete with jams entitled "Unintelligent Design," "One Thousand Times Decapitation" and "Total Gore."
Dig Boston |
J. Bennett |
05-31-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cattle Decapitation
O Buddha, Where Art Thou?new
On his new album, The True False Identity, Burnett uses his lyrical stockpile to tell a few absurdist tales, but his best verses are criticisms of religious and political zealots.
Dig Boston |
Jed Gottlieb |
05-31-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: T-Bone Burnett
Puzzlingnew
PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient is tailor-made for those who still crave the iffy validation that only an intelligence test can provide.
Dig Boston |
Adam Diamond |
05-31-2006 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
