AltWeeklies Wire
Dark Meat Massive Lets it All Hang Outnew
The Athens-based 17-piece band insists that it's members are not really communal-living hippie dope fiends, although they do enjoy fucking shit up.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
05-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dark Meat, Universal Indians
Five Bands That Could Pass as Creepy Cultsnew
Dark Meat isn't the first hairy-scary music ensemble to be mistaken for some bizarre quasi-religious cult. Here are a few more that could qualify for a tax exemption.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
05-27-2008 |
Music
Even the Mannequins Have Boob Jobsnew
Blame the 500 percent increase in implant surgery on slinky mannequins with big breasts.
NOW Magazine |
Tanya Grout |
05-27-2008 |
Commentary
No Chivalry for Hillarynew
Clinton dumps feminism for suburban version of old hillbilly race-baiting.
NOW Magazine |
George Elliott Clarke |
05-27-2008 |
Commentary
In the Wake of Disaster, the Burmese People Are On Their Own, As Usualnew
By blocking foreign aid in the wake of the deadly cyclone, Burma's ruling generals may be fueling the uprising they're trying to quell.
NOW Magazine |
Gwynne Dyer |
05-16-2008 |
International
The Heavy Dwell on Funk's Darksidenew
If your bandmates are weedy tossers from Bath, you don't go around calling yourselves the Heavy unless you can deliver the wall-shaking goods.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
05-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
South Rakkas Crew Balance Hipster Hype with Dancehall Reggae Respectnew
One minute they're putting out riddim records featuring some of the biggest names in reggae and the next they're dropping futuristic dancehall electro on Diplo's Mad Decent label.
NOW Magazine |
Benjamin Boles |
05-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Cut Copy Riding Melbourne's Next Wavenew
While Cut Copy are clear leaders of this beat-thumping new wave from Australia, a full crop of followers are hot on their heels, most of whom are friends.
NOW Magazine |
Jason Keller |
05-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Ecoholic: What's Up with Those No-mow Lawns?new
Are they genetically modified?
NOW Magazine |
Adria Vasil |
05-12-2008 |
Advice
Alt.Health: Easing Seasonal Sneezesnew
Tame pollen overload with fish oil and probiotics.
NOW Magazine |
Elizabeth Bromstein |
05-12-2008 |
Advice
Inside MMA: From the UFC to Illegal Cage Fights on Indian Reservesnew
It's been called human cockfighting, so why is Ontario making ultimate fighting even more dangerous by forcing it underground?
NOW Magazine |
Barrett Hooper |
05-12-2008 |
Sports
Jeremy Podeswa Adds A Personal Touch to 'Fugitive Pieces'new
Like Jakob Beer, the hero of Anne Michaels's novel, Fugitive Pieces, Podeswa's father is Polish and survived the war.
NOW Magazine |
Deidre Swain |
05-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Made of Honor' Comes Made to Insultnew
It's the dude version of My Best Friend's Wedding, without the implied judgment that made Julia Roberts seem like kind of an awful person by the end of it.
NOW Magazine |
Norman Wilner |
05-02-2008 |
Reviews
Errol Morris on the Photos, the Torture and the Smoking Gunnew
Morris has become much more of an activist filmmaker. His latest documentary, Standard Operating Procedure, digs into the atrocities committed by the U.S. military at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
NOW Magazine |
Norman Wilner |
05-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Julie Doucet Exposes Herself in '365 Days'new
Doucet's visual diary 365 Days is an intimate look into the minutiae of everything she went through over a full year.
NOW Magazine |
David Silverberg |
05-02-2008 |
Nonfiction
