AltWeeklies Wire
Fall Fournew
Four fall fiction choices outside the usual: Baltimore, or the Steadfast Tin Soldier; Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary; The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue; and 2236. These novels are genre-benders that provide new ways of looking at the world -- as well as good reads.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
10-12-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Fiction Reviews
Yo, Adriannew
A conversation with graphic novelist Adrian Tomine.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
10-09-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings
Tales of Disintegrationnew
David Peace, selected in 1993 as one of Britain's best young novelists by Granta magazine, sets his new novel in the rubble of post-WWII Tokyo. A detective story with a difference, it shows a city that doesn't need crime to destroy it. War is enough.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
09-24-2007 |
Fiction
This is a Well-Titled Movienew
This is a movie whose body count is much higher than its IQ.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
09-13-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Davis, Shoot 'Em Up
Escape ... and Reunionnew
Two former Sacramento journalists reunite with a local woman they helped smuggle across the border in the 1980s, when she was a child.
Sacramento News & Review |
Dale Maharidge |
09-06-2007 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Ralph Brave, 1953-2007new
To say that Ralph wrote crucial stories, shook the halls of power and touched the lives of many over the course of his long years as a journalist and at SN&R is an understatement.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
09-06-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
The Pot Issuenew
The local baddies when it comes to cannabis are the feds, the schools, the governor, bad musicians and the voters who overwhelmingly passed our medical-marijuana law but have not demanded teeth be put into it.
Sacramento News & Review |
Matt Coker, Nick Miller, Cosmo Garvin, R.V. Scheide, Kel Munger, Geoff Johnson and Estee Lee |
08-24-2007 |
Drugs
Tags: Drugs
'The Ten': An Exodus of Good Tastenew
Too bad it feels morally criminal to find it sometimes hilarious.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
08-16-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: The Ten, Wain, David
Food, Farms and a Billnew
The 2007 farm bill should prioritize healthful foods and sustainable farms.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
08-06-2007 |
Commentary
What Rhymes With Suck?new
Since its inception, rap has gone from eloquent to total shit. Just plain dumb. Here's how.
Sacramento News & Review |
Josh Fernandez |
08-03-2007 |
Music
Tags: Ja Rule
Rigor: Mortisnew
Mourning Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
08-02-2007 |
Movies
'Sunshine' is Less than Stellarnew
Admit it: Danny Boyle's sci-fi is only so-so.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
07-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Danny Boyle, Sunshine
Softlynew
Another sharp turn from Kingsley in the category of "Not Gandhi."
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
07-13-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: John Dahl, You Kill Me
Central Valley Power Playnew
Don't say you weren't warned about Rademacher's impending hugeosity.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
07-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rademacher
Maybe Some Regrets ...new
The problem with La Vie en Rose isn't that it takes liberties with the facts of Edith Piaf's life. So did she. But the reverence for allegory leads to a film that feels as long as Piaf's life.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
06-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: La Vie en Rose, Olivier Dahan
