AltWeeklies Wire
Herione Chicnew
Chick flicks remain the most frightening film genre of them all.
New York Press |
Armond White |
01-17-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: 27 Dresses, Anne Fletcher
A Misanthropic Valentinenew
Woody Allen's slow decline from an inspired modern comic to a pretend expert on homicide.
New York Press |
Armond White |
01-17-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Cassandra's Dream
Got Baum?new
Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum says she'll happily serve as New York's next Mayor -- as long as we hand her the job.
New York Press |
Edward-Isaac Dovere |
01-17-2008 |
Politics
Brazil Via Brooklynnew
Brooklyn drummer Scott Kelner explores the roots of maracatu and more.
New York Press |
Ernest Barteldes |
01-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
No Shamenew
The Park Slope punk quartet The Shondes mix queercore attitude, Jewish melodies and pro-Palestine lyrics.
New York Press |
Elizabeth Rhodes |
01-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Texas Singer-songwriter I’d Been Looking for My Whole Lifenew
I find myself reaching for Slaid Cleaves' music this January, as I have each January since I heard "One Good Year," eight winters back.
New York Press |
Brian Koppelman |
01-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Slaid Cleaves
Retroactive Revelationnew
It's possible that the greatest horror filmmaker in movie history never cried "Action" on a set. That's because Val Lewton, whose name recalls RKO Pictures' creepiest outings of the 1940s, always served as producer and screenwriter, not director.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
01-10-2008 |
TV
The Birth Monologuesnew
Producer Ricki Lake on the birth culture of the U.S.
New York Press |
Jennifer Merin |
01-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Need for New Scare Tacticsnew
Yet another boring J-horror translation proves we don't do horror right.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
01-10-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Eric Valette, One Missed Call
Korean Fusionnew
Though specific to his country's cultural situation, Korean director Hong Sang-soo's Woman on the Beach offers flavors of quarterlife angst and romantic insecurity for which American audiences clearly have an insatiable appetite.
New York Press |
Benjamin Sutton |
01-10-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Hong Sang-soo, Women on the Beach
No Country for Unconscious Peoplenew
John Sayles puts the imaginative life of African-Americans on the screen better than most.
New York Press |
Armond White |
01-10-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Honeydripper, John Sayles
Missionary Jazz Mannew
Steven Joerg of AUM Fidelity won't stop converting new jazz listeners.
New York Press |
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni |
01-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Steve Joerg
The Good Time Girlnew
Unlike Winehouse and Allen, Kate Nash has the voice without the attitude.
New York Press |
David Chiu |
01-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kate Nash, Made of Bricks
Cook Like an Egyptiannew
In the Arab world, and most households, culinary traditions are usually passed down from mother to daughter, and, far away from his mothers and sisters in Egypt, my father had no way to recreate the dishes he ate growing up.
New York Press |
Aisha Gawad |
01-03-2008 |
Food+Drink
Horror's New Kingnew
Producer Guillermo del Toro on Almodovar, the female force in film and discrimination against kids in cinema.
New York Press |
Jennifer Merin |
01-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage
