AltWeeklies Wire
Yamin’s Diabetes Sparks Partnershipnew
American Idol contestant Elliott Yamin's diabetes may lead to a partnership with a local organization.
Style Weekly |
Jason Roop |
05-25-2006 |
TV
An Old Chestnutnew
Even attenuated by age and obscured by primitive recording, Tolliver's charms more than rival the polished virtuosity of most modern re-enactors.
Style Weekly |
Peter McElhinney |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Now and Then, Speedy Tolliver
Burning Sagenew
The Exchange Session works because these very different musicians meet each other halfway, resulting in something that sounds like an oxymoron: accessible experimental jazz.
Style Weekly |
Mark Richardson |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
A Big No, No, Nonew
These 11 tracks are filled with polished guitars, structured arrangements, sing-song rhythms and an overall sense of lethargy -- and it's not just because the tempos have eased.
Style Weekly |
Hillary Langford |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Show Your Bones, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Good Life?new
Friends With Money investigates an insular set of Los Angelenos.
Style Weekly |
Wayne Melton |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
Race to Realitynew
Sunny Hobbs may get the chance of a lifetime -- she's one of 50 amateur stock car drivers in the running for 12 spots on a new reality show, Racin' for a Livin'.
Style Weekly |
Melissa Scott Sinclair |
05-04-2006 |
Sports
Preying on Predators?new
In the wake of vigilante murders, sex-offender registries have come under fire.
Style Weekly |
Holly Hobbs |
05-04-2006 |
Civil Liberties
'They're Just Exploiting People'new
Richmond Police, along with area Hispanic and Latino groups, have banded together to denounce a local radio station's recent decision to air commercials promoting $100 ID cards to illegal immigrants.
Style Weekly |
Brandon Walter |
05-04-2006 |
Immigration
Of Gospel and Gangsta Rapnew
There are a lot of firsts in this film set mostly in Harlem, but not even the presence of Eartha Kitt can bring this negligible and amateurish work to life.
Style Weekly |
Thomas Peyser |
04-27-2006 |
Reviews
Fishing Therapynew
Controversial former editor Howell Raines discusses his new book and life after The New York Times.
Style Weekly |
Amy Biegelsen |
04-27-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Family Affairnew
For more than a decade, Avail has steadily toured the world, playing its energetic blend of melodic hardcore for sweaty audiences of all sizes -- losing teeth and breaking bones along the way.
Style Weekly |
Brent Baldwin |
04-27-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Drafting Warnernew
Former Gov. Mark Warner sort of, unofficially, launches his presidential bid -- what do the experts think?
Style Weekly |
Katie Ganntt |
04-27-2006 |
Politics
Aptly Namednew
This dual disc finds Harper oscillating between delicate troubadour and brazen bluesman, revolutionary and romantic.
Style Weekly |
Hillary Langford |
04-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Harper, Both Sides of the Gun
Pre-World Musicnew
Long before there was actually a genre of music called world music, trumpeter and flugelhornist Hugh Masekela was blending cultures with sound.
Style Weekly |
Chris Bopst |
04-20-2006 |
Reviews
