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Boys Don't Crynew
Why the best romantic comedies aren't about women.
Charleston City Paper |
Conseula Francis |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: 27 Dresses, Anne Fletcher
The Spooky Art of 'The Orphanage'new
The Orphanage is an effective, desperately unsettling ghost story that shows Hollywood how a horror movie should be done.
Charleston City Paper |
Nick Smith |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage
Spin Doctors Frontman Seeks to Reconnectnew
The mixed commercial success of the Spin Doctors' recent albums and the band's perpetual love/hate relationship with themselves have influenced Chris Barron to record his first mainstream solo effort, Pancho and the Kid.
Charleston City Paper |
Josh Eboch |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The New Music Collective's New Project is a Strong Effortnew
These aren't tweedy types scoring self-serving masterpieces that will never be heard. The NMC aims to perform its work. In front of people. And those people, some of them devotees of the jam music scene with curious minds and open ears, seem to like it a lot.
Charleston City Paper |
John Stoehr |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Clinton Primary Primernew
Biographer Carl Bernstein sees two sides in candidate's run for the White House.
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick |
01-23-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
It's Time South Carolina Rediscovers John Edwardsnew
In this anti-union, corporate-friendly state, it is unlikely that Edwards can pull an upset Saturday against his two corporate-financed opponents. But a close race and a respectable third place would keep him viable and moving toward the Super Tuesday primaries and the national convention in August.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
01-23-2008 |
Commentary
Four Fractured Fairy Tales from the Primary Seasonnew
Just before the New Hampshire primaries, former President Bill Clinton said coverage of Barack Obama's record on Iraq equated to a "fairy tale." Little did we know how prophetic that statement would be, not only for Obama, but for any of the three viable candidates looking to clinch the party's nomination.
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick |
01-23-2008 |
Commentary
Love in a Time of Mutant STDnew
Harvey Award-winning graphic novelist Charles Burns spent more than a decade crafting Black Hole. It is a profoundly disturbing allegory of adolescence.
Charleston City Paper |
Jason A. Zwiker |
01-16-2008 |
Fiction
Band of Horses Come Homenew
The opening guitar notes and soft cymbal splash creep up on you subtly, before Ben Bridwell's potent, reedy voice alights "Is There a Ghost" with its recurring pronouncement, "I could sleep, I could sleeee-eep."
Charleston City Paper |
Jeff Clark |
01-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Band of Horses, Cease to Begin
Are You Ready to Bust a Gut?new
The fifth annual Charleston Comedy Festival, a co-production of Theatre 99 and the Charleston City Paper, has rounded up a passel of improv, sketch, and stand-up comedians for four nights of easy fun.
Charleston City Paper |
Staff |
01-16-2008 |
Performance
Tags: performance
The Return of South Carolina's Nativistsnew
Glenn McConnell introduced legislation calling for a U.S. Constitutional Convention to make illegal immigration even more illegal. He also submitted a bill that would make English the official language of South Carolina and require all state and civic publications be made manifest in English alone.
Charleston City Paper |
D.A. Smith |
01-16-2008 |
Commentary
South Carolina Democrats Aren't Ready for Changenew
Traditionally, South Carolinians don't like change. Many seem to prefer things as they were 200 years ago.
Charleston City Paper |
Barney Blakeney |
01-16-2008 |
Commentary
South Carolina Primary News Round-Upnew
Candidates are criss-crossing the state in hopes of drudging up some last-minute votes.
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick and Joshua Eboch |
01-16-2008 |
Politics
Ron Paul: The Only Candidatenew
Candidates like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton or Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are charismatic, understand the political machine, and use it to their advantage. Paul is an entirely different animal.
Charleston City Paper |
Jack Hunter |
01-16-2008 |
Commentary
Scenes from the GOP Debate in South Carolinanew
FOX abandons hand-raising questions for bland conservative ones.
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick |
01-16-2008 |
Politics
