AltWeeklies Wire
Is Mumblecore Going Mainstream?new
The Duplass brothers are considered two of mumblecore's founding fathers, having made the strange, awkward and sweet film The Puffy Chair a couple of years ago. With their latest, Baghead, they've created something very different: the first mumblecore horror film.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
07-30-2008 |
Reviews
Let Your Geek Flags Fly at Star Trek the Exhibitionnew
Local Trekkies (and Trekkers) continue their flight on the Enterprise--albeit vicariously, expensively and in a stationary setting.
San Diego CityBeat |
AnnaMaria Stephens |
07-23-2008 |
Recreation
Spots to Fuel Up During Comic-Connew
For you lucky folks who get to indulge your inner geek, here are some easy-to-walk-to, easy-on-your-wallet places to refuel before, during and after the 'Con.
San Diego CityBeat |
Candice Woo |
07-23-2008 |
Food+Drink
'Step Brothers' is a Good Joke with No Place to Gonew
This feels less like a story than just an amusing idea, having Reilly and Ferrell, two very funny guys, acting like pubescent 15-year-olds.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
07-23-2008 |
Reviews
Coheed and Cambria Shake Off the Bumpsnew
Coheed and Cambria knew they had unfinished business ahead after releasing Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV in 2005. It just wasn’t the kind they were expecting.
San Diego CityBeat |
Alan Sculley |
07-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
School, Virtually: Higher Education Gets a Second Lifenew
Professors shrouded in virtual alter egos may one day become commonplace as universities turn to online technologies to cope with increasing enrollment, decreasing budgets and a diversifying student body. Second Life by Linden Labs is the cutting edge of tools being tapped by academia. But new professorial cliches are the least significant of changes forcing scholars to take a critical look at where higher ed might be headed.
San Diego CityBeat |
Megan Burks |
07-23-2008 |
Education
Heath Ledger's Joker is No Jokenew
Aside from Ledger, The Dark Knight's other huge star is the IMAX screen on which it should be seen.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
07-16-2008 |
Reviews
McCain Faces a Chilly Reception While Obama Basks in Supportnew
The two presidential candidates made speeches at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza at the San Diego Convention Center, earning different reactions.
San Diego CityBeat |
Eric Wolff |
07-16-2008 |
Politics
Political Representation Lags Behind San Diego's Latino Populationnew
Roughly 3 million people live in San Diego County, and nearly 900,000 of them are Latino--and exactly 12 of them are Latinos who currently occupy elected legislative office.
San Diego CityBeat |
David Rolland |
07-16-2008 |
Politics
Grand Ole Party Makes Its Breaknew
GOP has been earning heavy local media buzz for more than a year. But it's only been in the last few months that the band has earned national press and exposure with slots at South by Southwest, Coachella and Bonnaroo.
San Diego CityBeat |
AnnaMaria Stephens |
07-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Grand Ole Party, Humanimals
Why Can't the 'San Diego Union-Tribune' Give Credit Where It's Due?new
We get the sense that the U-T views giving credit where credit is due as a sign of weakness.
San Diego CityBeat |
Staff |
07-16-2008 |
Media
The Yearlong Campaign to Introduce You to Your Homeless Neighborsnew
What good did it do?
San Diego CityBeat |
Kelly Davis |
07-16-2008 |
Housing & Development
'The Wackness' is More Than Just Another Pot Movienew
No, Jonathan Levine's movie, set on the sticky streets of New York in the summer of 1994, works well because each of its characters is going through his or her own coming-of-age experience, illustrating the fact that none of us ever truly has that moment when we transition to adulthood.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
07-09-2008 |
Reviews
A New HBO Series Puts the War into Perspectivenew
After HBO snatched up the rights to Evan Wright's best-selling 2004 book about his experiences embedded with a squad of First Recon Marines during the early weeks of the Iraq War, he met with The Wire's David Simon and Ed Burns. The resulting seven-part miniseries, says Wright, is very similar to his own experiences.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
07-09-2008 |
TV
The Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra: A Labor of Lovenew
The band consisted of Michael Buchmiller (channeling a mad scientist character), playing music using samples and a keyboard, and a robot named SPO-20 that would sing nonsensical lyrics about time machines and Jacques Cousteau.
San Diego CityBeat |
Seth Combs |
07-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
