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Royal Dead Does the Zombie Stompnew
Despite his blood-soaked T-shirt and ghoulish colored contacts, there's a smirk on Eddie Suicide's face that lets you know he takes his band's mantra of gore and destruction only half-seriously.
Weekly Alibi |
Simon McCormack |
11-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Royal Dead
Isaac Brock Doesn't Like Softball Questionsnew
You start an interview easy, with some chill question that allows your source to go on and on about himself, to warm to you. This is, apparently, not the way to go with Isaac Brock, a man who isn't hot on the idea of explaining himself or why his band's latest album is so much better than a lot of the shlock Modest Mouse put on shelves in the last decade.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
11-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Modest Mouse
Novel Ideas: Gifts for a Literary Holidaynew
For every personality, every reading level, there's a book out there waiting to provide that lucky Christmas or Chanukah or Kwanza celebrant with a few hours -- maybe a few weeks -- of pleasure.
Weekly Alibi |
John Freeman |
11-20-2007 |
Books
JIm Shepard: Dangerous, Dark Dispatchesnew
Like You'd Understand, Anyway is made up almost entirely of fictional testimonies from situations that quickly disintegrate -- and it's not hard to keep reading out of simple rubbernecking.
Weekly Alibi |
John Freeman |
11-13-2007 |
Fiction
Recipe: Sherry and Sage Spudsnew
When the weather starts to turn, there's nothing that will warm you to the core like a plate of hot potatoes.
Weekly Alibi |
Alex Brown and Evan George |
11-13-2007 |
Food+Drink
Glenn Danzig Talks With His MySpace Alteregonew
As MySpace Glenn Danzig, I write evil blogs and comments, post Danzig videos and generally infect the MySpace community with unhealthy doses of Danzig. Never in my bloodiest dreams could I imagine I'd actually get to speak with the real Glenn.
Weekly Alibi |
Weber |
11-13-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Danzig, The Lost Tracks of Danzig
Struck Downnew
Four tips for surviving the Writers Guild of America strike.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O'Leary |
11-13-2007 |
Movies
The Vegetarian Thanksgivingnew
Don't invite Tofurky this year.
Weekly Alibi |
Jessica Cassyle Carr |
11-13-2007 |
Food+Drink
Ha Jin's American Dreamsnew
In his mammoth new novel, A Free Life, he deploys the elements of his own powerful journey in an epic tale about a young couple at sea in America in the early '90s.
Weekly Alibi |
John Freeman |
11-06-2007 |
Fiction
'Martian Child': Real, Earnest and Phonynew
Now, I'm the first person to champion the cause of nonconformity, but Martian Child does something very dangerous with its weirdness: It commodifies it.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O’Leary |
11-06-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Martian Child, Menno Meyjes
Get Garlic Planted Nownew
Dear Chef, I think we're approaching the time to stick garlic in the ground, and I've forgotten which end of the clove goes up. Could you so kindly remind me?
Weekly Alibi |
Chef Boy Ari |
11-06-2007 |
Food+Drink
Dafnis Prieto's Quintet Mixes Jazz, Latin and Classical Texturesnew
Alongside the equipment commonly found in a jazz drum kit -- toms, snare, kick drum, wood blocks, high hat, cymbals -- Cuban-born drummer/composer Prieto mounts an unorthodox percussive instrument: a frying pan.
Weekly Alibi |
Mel Minter |
11-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Absolute Quintet, Dafnis Prieto
Anne Enright's 'Buried Memories' is Bleak and Sexualnew
The Irish wake has become such a familiar trope in films and popular culture it takes a fiercely unsentimental novel like Anne Enright's The Gathering, recent winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize, to club the blarney out of it.
Weekly Alibi |
John Freeman |
10-30-2007 |
Fiction
George Saunders's Magazine-Inspired Missionnew
Five years and a few National Magazine Awards later, we have this sparkling new essay collection, The Braindead Megaphone, which sends up a powerful warning flag about what the shouters and screamers of our contemporary mediascape are doing to American culture.
Weekly Alibi |
John Freeman |
10-30-2007 |
Nonfiction
I Have Nothing but Scorn for Candy Cornnew
My biggest issue with candy corn is that it tastes like nothing more than pure sugar. But there's more.
Weekly Alibi |
Simon McCormack |
10-30-2007 |
Food+Drink
