AltWeeklies Wire
Come Out and Plaaaay…new
Don't trash your aging hardware just yet. Even though this fall could mark the last hurrah for the current generation of video-game systems, some of the freshest titles yet are due to be released for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
Boston Phoenix |
Mitch Krpata |
09-23-2005 |
Video Games
Social Sciencenew
In On Beauty, the 30-year-old Jamaican-British writer achieves greater dimension and restraint than in her first two books, giving readers a social novel that is true both to the times and to the mysterious workings of beauty itself.
Boston Phoenix |
Catherine Tumber |
09-23-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: On Beauty, Zadie Smith
Lived to Tellnew
Bob Dylan looks back in Scorsese’s No Direction Home.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
09-22-2005 |
Reviews
Math Whiznew
Proof wields more talent than credence.
Boston Phoenix |
Carolyn Clay |
09-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Madden, Proof
In Cold Bloodnew
David Cronenberg defines the history of violence, though with such cold-blooded efficiency and cryptic detachment, his film may evoke more admiration than pleasure.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
09-22-2005 |
Reviews
Gay Marriage in Massachusettsnew
The latest move to override same-sex marriage in Massachusetts failed, but the struggle isn't over yet.
Boston Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
09-22-2005 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Gaming the Systemnew
Forget cable news and the Drudge Report: some of the most powerful political messages can now be found in video games.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Dahlen |
09-22-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Tweak-a-Boonew
Kieran Hedben’s unwillingness to reside at any one extreme defines his fourth Four Tet album, which eschews the "folktronica" style he’s been saddled with in favor of something as hard to pin down as Hebden himself.
Boston Phoenix |
Tony Ware |
09-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Everything Ecstatic, Four Tet
Grass in Massnew
The Bay State inches toward legalizing medical marijuana.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-19-2005 |
Science
Loud and Proud: R.L. Burnside, 1926–2005new
Rural Burnside began recording in 1967 when musicologist George Mitchell visited his North Mississippi home to make field recordings. He stopped last December, when a heart attack robbed him of his vitality. On Sept. 1, he died.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
09-16-2005 |
Music
God, Liquor, and Katrinanew
Following Hurricane Katrina, government officials and aid workers have concentrated on ensuring physical survival. Now volunteers at evacuation centers are trying to create an environment that replenishes the spirit of the survivors.
Boston Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
09-15-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: Hurricane Katrina, Camp Edwards
The Government's $4 Billion-a-Year Weed Habitnew
Enforcing marijuana laws costs more and more every year. And for what?
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
09-15-2005 |
Crime & Justice
The Big Uneasynew
New Orleans is revealed in fact and film.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Brass-Band Funeral: Jazz and Destructionnew
Katrina brought home what a lot of us tourists sensed implicitly for years: that the New Orleans cultural scene owes much of its vitality to a community that lives on the edge of subsistence, for which that culture isn’t merely "entertainment," but truly a matter of life and death.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
09-13-2005 |
Disasters
Redemption Songsnew
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club renew their faith in rock and roll.
Boston Phoenix |
Mac Randall |
09-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Howl
