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Just Like Hell...But Worse

Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo are better off dead in this rote rom com with a euthanasia twist.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 09-15-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Mark Waters, Bill Frist, The Cure, Just Like Heaven, Freddie Prinze Jr.

The Naked Citynew

Author Nick Tyler spends "Another Bullshit Night" with his homeless father and his fractured memories.

Columbus Alive | Melissa Starker | 09-15-2005 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Homeless, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Nick Flynn

Get 'Em While They're Young

A children's author provides a primer in the politics of fear for tomorrow's Republicans.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 09-14-2005 | Fiction

Tags: The Lorax, Hilary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!, Katharine DeBrecht

Baker On Baker

Cartoonist Kyle Baker throws himself into his work like never before, and then gets serious with a new Nat Turner biography.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 09-14-2005 | Original Work

Tags: Kyle Baker, Nat Turner, Plastic Man, slave trade, The Bakers

Who's on Top?

An ass-obsessed buddy cop comedy is predictably crappy.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 09-08-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Les Mayfield, The Man

Law & Order: Special Exorcism Unit

Is The Exorcism of Emily Rose as good as The Exorcist? No. Is it occasionally as scary? Yes.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 09-08-2005 | Reviews

Tags: of, Rose, Emily, exorcism, Scott Derrickson, The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Trashy Beach Reading -- in Convenient Movie Form

It wasn't meant to be a romantic comedy, but this overheated romance gets so overwrought it's often laugh-out-loud hilarious.

Columbus Alive | Melissa Starker | 09-08-2005 | Reviews

Tags: asylum, David Mackenzie

Bear With Him

Alternative cartoonist Neil Swaab dares to go "There" and tell the wrongest jokes -- up to and including ones about molesting kids -- with the help of one very disturbed teddy bear.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 09-08-2005 | Original Work

Tags: Neil Swaab, Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles, Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles Volume 2

Running On Empty

Sure gas prices are getting astronomical, but at least we still have gas to pay a lot of money for. As Richard Heinberg vividly illustrates, that might not always be the case.

Columbus Alive | Nikki Davis | 09-08-2005 | Nonfiction

Tags: Richard Heinberg, Peak theory, The Party's Over

Viva Las Vegasnew

A nascent photographer finds the neon graveyard for signs of Sin City's past, and shares the results.

Columbus Alive | Melissa Starker | 09-08-2005 | Art

Tags: Bubba Tink, Las Vegas, Silver Slipper

O.S. Chewnew

Here's a gameday game plan for finding good grub on the way to Ohio State home games.

Columbus Alive | G.A. Benton | 09-08-2005 | Food+Drink

Tags: Buckeyes, Jim Tressel, Ohio State University

Apocalypse Nownew

After one of the worst weeks in American memory, one has to wonder if it's the end of the world as we know it, or just the end of the United States as we know it?

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 09-08-2005 | Commentary

Tags: hurricane, Bush, gas prices, Kanye West, labor day