AltWeeklies Wire
Pitbull Gives a Shipshape Performancenew
On The Boatlift he sticks to his strategy of blending English and Spanish lyrics on a slew of club bangers, rhyming a blue streak over Miami bass and crunk tracks.
Washington City Paper |
Alfredo Flores |
12-06-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Pitbull, The Boatlift
A Beast of a 'Belly'new
FFA's second disc, Belly, picks up where 2004's criminally ignored Scavengers left off: Its beats are constructed almost exclusively from crackle and fuzz, and its rhymes veer from the personal into the impressionistic.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Warminsky |
11-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Belly, Food for Animals
Analog Jetpacks Leaves Politics Off 'And How They Flew'new
The group recently toured in support of D.C. voting rights and is attempting to sell MTV on a reality series about the subject. But its debut album is a largely apolitical series of easygoing (if verbose) good-time tunes that bend over backward not to take themselves too seriously.
Washington City Paper |
Ben Westhoff |
11-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Analog Jetpack, And How They Flew
Fun and Gunnew
Charles Nelson Reilly's one-man show, The Life of Reilly, is a blast, but Hitman mostly shoots blanks.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-29-2007 |
Reviews
A Nation’s Statenew
In its 18th year, the Washington Jewish Film Festival stays close to the promised land.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-29-2007 |
Movies
My Teacher is a Rockstar?new
From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. every weekday, the former Dismemberment Plan bassist Eric Axelson morphs into Mr. Axelson, a mild-Âmannered English teacher who quizzes his juniors on The Crucible at Columbia Heights' Bell Multicultural High School.
Washington City Paper |
Jessica Gould |
11-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lies and Rhetoric, Statehood
Dillinger Escape Plan: In Livid Colornew
The group's membership woes have only fired up and brightened its music.
Washington City Paper |
David Dunlap Jr. |
11-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Dillinger Escape Plan, Ire Works
'Love in the Time of Cholera' Challenges Directornew
An inconsistent director, Mike Newell has succeeded with The Good Father and Donnie Brasco and flopped with Enchanted April and Mona Lisa Smile.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-15-2007 |
Reviews
War Zones of Contentionnew
The battlefields of Iraq and Uganda don't quite get their due in Redacted and War/Dance.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-15-2007 |
Reviews
Comfortably Dumbnew
The directors of Southland Tales and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium like 'em big and stupid.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-15-2007 |
Reviews
Georgetown's White NAACP President Wades into the Fraynew
When the student newspaper's lack of coverage of Jena 6 protests flared things up, it was the first real test of Ellie Gunderson's leadership.
Washington City Paper |
Ruth Samuelson |
11-15-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Poet Rod Smith Finds the Logic in the Inexplicablenew
With Deed, published last month by the University of Iowa Press, Smith balances lyric depth and ridiculous humor.
Washington City Paper |
Amanda Hess |
11-08-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'War/Dance': Repair for Battlenew
Husband-and-wife filmmakers find a bright spot in a Ugandan war zone.
Washington City Paper |
Maura Judkis |
11-08-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: War/Dance, Sean Fine, Andrea Nix
Extra Golden: Rockers Without Bordersnew
Hera Ma Nono deftly merges indie rock and African music. Are you listening, Sasha Frere-Jones?
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
11-08-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Extra Golden, Hera Ma Nono
'Fred Claus': Ho-Ho-Humnew
Never once does this big spangly artificial tree of a movie look or smell natural.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
11-08-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: David Dobkin, Fred Claus
