AltWeeklies Wire
Here Comes The Sun Kingnew
King Sunny Adé talks about war, Nigeria, and good juju.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Peter S. Scholtes |
04-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: King Sunny Ade
Communication Breakdownnew
Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age axes his bass player, enters his cocoon and makes a great rock record.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Keith Harris |
04-06-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The O'Hannity Factornew
Why has the Terri Schiavo case received more media saturation coverage than any other right-to-die case? The answer appears to lie in the efforts of Fox News and the Bush family and the pack tendencies of the media at large.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Steve Perry |
04-06-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
King of the Hillnew
Bert Blyleven is a clown, color man -- and the best eligible pitcher who's not in the Hall of Fame.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Britt Robson |
04-06-2005 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Safe Child Syndromenew
Behold the most controlling, anxiety-ridden, over-involved generation of parents ever. They're protecting their kids to death.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
03-28-2005 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
The Undoing of Americanew
Author Gore Vidal gives his views on war for oil, politics-free elections and the late, great U.S. Constitution.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Steve Perry |
03-23-2005 |
Commentary
When You Wish Upon a Starletnew
In The Starlet, 10 aspiring actresses shack up in a Spanish-style pad that once belonged to Marilyn Monroe. Each week, the contestants take acting classes and undergo screen tests opposite such top-shelf thespians as Jaime Pressly and David Gallagher.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Diablo Cody |
03-17-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
GOP Lifer Bemoans His Party's Powerlustnew
Former Minnesota Senator and lifelong Republican Dave Durenberger on the rise of the new Bush Republicans: "They talk about freedom and values, but they really don't believe in representative government."
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
G.R. Anderson Jr. |
03-09-2005 |
Politics
Home Alonenew
Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest movie is doubly unpredictable, not just in the way that its focus on survival--rather than the shuffling sound of death outside the door--marks a major about-face from his earlier films' pervasive probings of mortality and memory.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Chuck Stephens |
03-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nobody Knows
The Rise of the Boo-yaa'snew
The internet demimonde of right-wing bloggers and chat boards is the purest expression of what has happened to political "dialogue" in the past 15 years. Together the forces of radical conservatism have contrived an extreme makeover in the language of politics: They've turned it into the idiot stepchild of sports programming.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Steve Perry |
03-09-2005 |
Commentary
Was the Job of Jester Already Taken?new
If it weren't for their obnoxious singer and idiotic lyrics, Kings of Leon might be--well, hard to say--pretty tolerable?
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Dylan Hicks |
03-04-2005 |
Reviews
Apocalypse Then and Nownew
It's always dangerous to make direct links between current events and pop-culture phenomena: So much time usually lags between the conception of a novel, record, or movie and its eventual release that such connections are, at best, coincidence. Let's just say that the small wave of time-travel movies that started last year with The Butterfly Effect is...interesting.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jim Ridley |
03-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Maybury, The Jacket
The Pizza Man Always Rings Twicenew
Six veterans of the pie-delivery trade tell true tales of debauchery, rage and revenge.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Mike Mosedale |
02-24-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The Man Who Shot Too Muchnew
What took octogenarian auteur Sidney Lumet so long to get an Oscar? He made too many movies.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Matthew Wilder |
02-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sidney Lumet
Clear Channel Rules the Worldnew
From its humble beginnings as a small chain of radio stations, Clear Channel has grown to control not only a good share of the country's radio stations but nearly 70 percent of the nation's live shows.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
G.R. Anderson Jr. |
02-17-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
